I've never much cared for HDR photos. They contradict my usual photographic approach - I'm trying to engage with and portray what is there, and it seems that a picture that is produced largely in the computer, while it may be beautiful, goes in another direction. But recently I switched to Corel photo editing software after years of using Lightroom and Photoshop, and my new program, Paintshop Pro has an HDR option, so why not try it out? It made the photograph above, out of this: And I realised, that not only did the HDR shot look better than the orignal, but it expressed more accurately what it was I saw on the headland at Karitane back in late December 2011. So for the last 24 hours I've been playing. There's tens of thousands of photos on my hard drive that I've never bothered with, because they are kind of nothing shots - ones that didn't quite work. There were others I've worked on over the years but never been quite satisfied with. But I'v...