Pictures Don’t Do It Justice:
Because of our whirlwhind tour, we really didn’t get the time to stand there and comprehend the scale of the pyramids. It wasn’t until afterward my brain started to wrap around the scale, and remember small things like the tiny guards standing next to the blocks.
The giant stones at the bottom where about 12 feet tall, but from this photograph they could be thumb sized. Your brain plays weird tricks on you.
For this photograph, (which is as you may have guessed, an HDR), I stood in the ruins of one of the outlying temples in order to try and give some context. Unfortunately, it shrinks the pyramid, but hopefully it gives a little sense of scale. There’ll be a few more HDRs on this trip, and I promise they get better. It’s something I’ve played around with, but I think it really came into its own for me on this trip. The high suns and deep shadows forced to me to try it in some situations, and it worked out pretty well as you will see.
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