📷 The Road to Volcanoes

Can you guess the country from the photo? :) Good road, desert and volcanoes on the horizon ... hmm? Well, okay, okay — such landscapes, probably, can be found in more than one country in the world. But for me it is precisely such landscapes that I remember the very north of Chile, the Arica y Parinacota region.

The photo shows the Ruta 11, which seems to lead us straight to the couple of beautiful volcanoes with snow caps. These are the volcanoes Parinacota (6348 m) and Pomerape (6265 m).

They are also called Payachata Twins, because they are a volcanic group — a complex of volcanoes with two peaks, which by the way are potentially active. They are located clearly on the border of Chile and Bolivia, so that both countries can admire their view.

The second photo was taken near one of the lakes that form Laguna Cotacotani. And all this together is at a rather high altitude, something like more than 4 thousand meters above sea level — we are located high in the Andes. It's good that Chile is generally very good with roads, even high in the mountains, and it is not so difficult to get to many interesting places even by minibus :)

Speaking of photography and skill... That trip to Chile and Argentina took place in 2018, more than two years have passed since then. During this time, I dare to hope, I improved my skill as a photographer. And now you have seen the photos that I re-processed not so long ago, a few months ago. But the initial versions of the same photos, done then, in 2018, look a little different. Look here, below (in any case, it is better to open them in a separate tab in a larger size, both versions near each other - so that the difference is more clearly visible).

In my opinion, now I'm doing better photo processing than a couple of years ago :) Not so bright and colorful, but more accurate and close to reality. But I still keep the old versions, just to compare and evaluate myself. Maybe in a couple of years I will return to these shots again and make another version :) What do you think, which version of the photos is better, old or new? And why?

It's better to watch the photo in high resolution.