Removing image content

I'm in no way ideological about my photography.  My approach could best be summed up as making it as simple as possible.  I use Lightroom to make my images presentable, which amounts to changes in exposure, tone, and sharpness.  I often straighten, but rarely crop and almost never use Photoshop to remove elements from an image.  This is partly due to laziness and partly to a philosophical predisposition that finds life amazing enough as it is.  If there is something I don't like in an image, I don't use it.

But recently I found myself popping open Photoshop. 

100 for Almaty (+12)

I had no photographic plan for Almaty.   As this wasn’t a trip organized months in advance, I did minimal research.  My objective, as it were, was to remain attentive and open to whatever might present itself.

I had an entire week for Eid, nine days including weekends at both ends, and so Mutsumi and I hopped a plane to Almaty, the former capital and still largest city of Kazakhstan.  Apart from never having been there and an interest in Central Asia, Kazakhstan was a convenient choice as visas are not required for US or Japanese citizens and as there are direct, 4-hour flights from Dubai.