As landscape photographers we learn how to phograph a scene in a way that reveals beauty and hides the not so beautiful parts. This selective process was needed even more on Mauritius. Not because the island is not beautiful.. far from it. Mauritius is very beautiful.

The reason is the waste that people keep throwing everywhere. If you stay at a hotel you will have a clean beach because the hotel staff keeps it clean. But go to other areas were there are no hotels and you will find discarded plastic bottles and other waste everywhere. This is so sad. At one setting I was lucky enough to bring my drypack, which I filled with plastic bottles before I started to photograph, I then discarded those in a trash can near our hotel. In the future I will always have some kind of bag for trash with my when I go out photoraphing. I have to scout a location anyway to find the best spot so why not combine it with some garbage collection ;-)

Look at this scene here for example, looks beautiful right. What you not see is the trash hidden in between the grasses. By selecting this low angle I was able to hide it but if you look down it's not such a beautiful sight and it seems no one cares :-(

cheers