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©2004-2009 ~arphire
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Stiniva Beach, Otok Vis, Croatia.

I took this from the top of the cliff looking down on the beach (unless you walk down the cliff, you can only get there by boat). It's sort of the "trademark beach" of the island, appearing on the posters and such... I hope I managed to recreate the "I'd love to go there..." feel! :)

I used Neat Image for the first time on this photo, which is why it's so smudged and unnatural. I will probably try again later.

Also photo-paint: I painted out the pile of rubbish at the rear of the beach (they don't show that on the posters!), and painted the roof of that building orange (can you tell?!). Also added border at al.

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:iconalloi:
Jeez, that's incredible! That place looks like an awesome place to be! You certainly did create the "I'd love to go there feel." I really like that little inlet there, I would love to buy that house there! Great little hideaway there to be alone with peace and quiet =)

I can sort of see what you mean by the smudging, like on the trees and on the cliffs. I don't know what it originally looked like, but I think the sharper the image the better. And wow I just read your part about coloring the roof orange, I had no idea. That looks perfectly natural, and an unusual but good contrast against the other colors. I would edit out the person standing there though, he/she doesn't add anything to the picture I think, and most posters and postcards and stuff have no one in them.

Great work as always!

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"If you believe nothing is impossible, try slamming a revolving door."
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From what I remember it was a small yet understocked cafe. (We climbed down the cliff :) ). I only painted half the roof, I suppose it was more of a touch up. I'm glad you think it looks OK, though. Perhaps more of those roofs should be orange.

There were some great echoes down there, so quiet wouldn't be the thing :D.

I thought about erasing the people (there's one in the sea too). I erased the rest (they came under the category of rubbish, ha ha - no, but it looked to busy). Thos people seemed to me to want to stay. But zoomed out she does look a bit odd and alone. I will probably take them out when I re-do it.

The neat image thing is meant to remove noise, but I think I overdid it. It seems to have smudged it a lot.
:iconalloi:
Oh haha I didn't notice the person in the sea. Well, if I bought that place then I would also put electric fences up around a 1 mil radius. And I wouldn't buy a dog. J/k I don't have that kind of money anyway =D

Oh, there's also a slightly hidden building that has a trail leading to it. Looks sort of like a bathroom, what is it?

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"If you believe nothing is impossible, try slamming a revolving door."
:iconarphire:
There was a hill in the middle of the island with a fence all the way round, some abandoned british military base. They were all fallen over and full of holes though. You couldn't get up to the top of the hill; there was a sign saying they'd shoot you. :p or something.

That hut was a "souvenir" shop I think. It was actually on the main path down the cliff. But there was no one there. And... no souvenirs either :D
:icongerbileater:
Shame that there should be a pile of rubbish in such a beautiful place. Tourists are often such selfish hypocrites. They want to go to idyllic places, but they leave all their crap behind.

In any case, your photo definitely has the poster feel to it, and I can definitely say I'd love to go there.

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Thanks :) The view from up top was definitely better than the beach - it was all rocks, half of which had oil on, and then there was the rubbish.
But it was very, very inaccessible. Better to look, I think in retrospect =P
:icongerbileater:
That's sad. Even though I haven't been there, to think that such a beautiful and remote place still gets all this shit from human activity.

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:iconarphire:
I was actually surprised because the number of tourists on the island could probably be counted on one hand. OK, bit of an exaggeration but it was fairly out of the way. And the accommodation was awful... :|
:icongerbileater:
Right, somewhere to cross off the list then. Sucks to see the shit people leave behind as tourists, especially in remote places.

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