Enchanted Forrest (Madeira, Portugal)

No doubt one of the best hikes you can do in Madeira is a 4km walk through the levadas, water carrying pathways, with some wonderful vistas to the valley where one of the stops is this beautiful waterfall. Me and my wife started quite late in the morning, since this was my first good night of sleep after many days sick, so when we finally got there it was full of tourists but thanks to the magic of Photoshop none can be seen. :) A small curiosity about the spot here: the little lake in the middle holds a legend where a British tourist went for a swim and never came back. I am not British but maybe the lake also holds a grudge against Brazilians. Who knows? Needless to say I did not get close to it. Just some processing info: The whole image has been stitched from multiple images to give the idea that my lens could go this high. 1 image for the top, 9 for the middle and 7 more for the bottom. Which means its a top-bottom panorama with mean averaging to and some cloning to remove tourists. All this gives me a whopping 86 Megapixels which after some cropping gives me still 77 Megapixels. Phew! :D

Jazzy swell of clouds (Madeira, Portugal)

This spot is by far my favourite from Madeira. After a rather sinuous drive to the top of the rock a 5 minute small walk reveals outstanding views to almost the entire North Eastern part of the island. This was welcome news since I was quite sick, with fever and my arm was killing me because of an allergy I had from a tetanus shot. At this spot this was also the best day of the entire stay. A breathtaking cloud formation and cloud inverse happened which meant that when the sun went below the carpet of clouds that covered the valley, the colours exploded from both up and down in the horizon. I have visited this place for almost all other nights but none was this stunning. It is almost cheating photographing from here because of the sheer beauty of this place.