A reworking of a photograph taken during what was only our third ever cruise. This was 2016 and we were in the process of cruising from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Valparaiso, Chile aboard Star Princess. One of the earlier stops on this cruise was to the Argentinian port of Puerto Madryn but we didn’t end up spending any time there, instead heading off for the day down the Patagonian coast to see penguins. We’d boarded the bus for this tour right outside the ship gangway which was at the far end of a long pier and during the drive to start the excursion I snapped a few shots from my seat by the window.
A hazard of taking photos from bus windows is that they are prone to colour tint problems, dirt issues, motion blur, and reflections from inside the bus or from windows on the opposite side. The last of these was the issue with the original photo here but this picture makes use of the Camera Raw algorithm for reflection removal and the result works very well. Other than that, just a little bit of sensor dust removal, some noise reduction, and a bit of a boost in colour and brightness finish off the adjustments to the original shot.