a thing I wanted to ask you for quite some time (but never got around to doing it) is: What equipment do you use for taking your pictures -- a digicam, SLR -> print -> scanner, SLR -> slide/negative -> film scanner? The strong colors of your pictures are awesome!
I usually take slides and scan them with my Minolta Dimâge Scan Dual (yes the one without SANE backend :-() and am a bit disappointed by the kinda "washed out" colors I get in the end (even with gamma correction, various ImageMagick and GIMP trickery applied afterwards).
TIA for any hints,
Nils