Vashon Early Morning
These shots are from an early morning walk on the shores of the southern tip of Maury Island. I used a small off-camera flash to illuminate the foreground and retain the blue sky.
Leaving only my footprints behind.
Vashon
We finally took Connor to his Nana’s house on Vashon Island recently. It was both his first time on a ferry and an island. I managed to take over three hundred pictures and then deemed over one hundred good enough to be processed. All of the pictures in this post were either taken with my 50mm 2.0 or 24mm 3.5. Click on any of the smaller pictures to see them full size.
Here’s Connor on a Washington State ferry. He has a great time getting help walking up the aisles on the passenger deck by Leah. Below he’s enjoying the benches up front with the great views and hanging out by the emergency life rafts. There was a really good photographer on board that took a great family portrait of us.
Valerie made a great shrimp po’ boy lunch for us. Connor enjoyed the fireplace and crawling on the new floors.
Connor hangs out on the dock and the beach. I really love that wooden sculpture that someone built years ago.
Metropolitain, Paris
I love all of the signs at entrances to the Paris Metro stations. They are so iconic that I felt compelled to shoot as many as I could while in Paris for a short time. The shot above is my favorite of the bunch. It’s the Chatelet Station which is a short walk to The Louvre.
Above is Pigalle Station in Montmartre.
Louvre Part Deux
Here’s the Louvre from my trip to Europe in the fall of ‘08. I used a lot of long exposures here – good thing that I always carry my mini tripod with me. The Louvre looks amazing at night. I love the look that a cloudy night gives the city sky in the shot above. The purple, hazy glow is way cool. We didn’t see the museum this time around, but had a great time just taking pictures of the building and fountains. That’s me in the shot at the end of this post. It’s a fifteen second exposure that I walked into after few seconds and then held still for the rest of the shot.
Long exposure HDR conversion:
Entering the glass pyramid:
Click on the thumbnails to see full size:
Beer
Traveling the world and drinking good beer is a good thing. There are so many interesting things to try that are hard to come by at home. Here in Washington State we’re lucky to have a great micro-brew industry, but today we’re going to look at a few foreign beers. My favorite shot is the one above. This is at a bar in Vancouver that specializes in Belgian beers. It was my first ever Hoegaarden. Below left is three half liters of Hoffbrauhaus‘ Witbier. Below right is from a bar in Amsterdam. Click on the small images to see them large.
More beer pictures on Flickr.
Vancouver
Both these shots are from the trip that we took to Vancouver for my birthday a couple of years ago. This was the first vacation with a DSLR, the Pentax K10D. It’s a great camera and I’m still using it today. The shot above is the Vancouver Public Library. The photo below is a sculpture at English Bay. Both shots are five exposure HDR images. I have a few more interesting shots from this trip. Stay tuned and I’ll post them another time.
Shack in Field
This was a stop on our drive from Munich to Castle Neuschwanstein. It looked like a great photo opportunity, so we pulled the car over and I walked out to the middle of the field to get a shot of this shack with the castle in the background. It’s a single raw image processed in photomatix and photoshop.
More of my pictures from Germany on Flickr.
Musée du Louvre
Camera: Pentax K10D
Late evening in late October at the Louvre in Paris
Processing: Single RAW image tonemapped in Photomatix Pro. Imported into Photoshop: Curves, Color Balance, and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers.
More of my images of The Louvre @ Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prestondave/sets/72157622924487597/detail/
