Barcelona: Why Have They Cast Me from Heaven?
Barcelona Cathedral: Julio Nieto “Why Have They Cast me From Heaven?” For the past week I have been on a business trip in Oslo, Norway – and – one of my favorite cities, Barcelona, Spain Catalonia and have been able to take my wife with me and show her this amazing city. After work we […]
View from Holmenkollen
Panoramic View from Holmenkollen Last night my wife and I had dinner with a business colleague at the Scandic Hotel at Holmenkollen just outside of Oslo, Norway under the Skiforeningen (Ski Jump Museum). Holmenkollen is a neighborhood in the Vestre Aker borough of Oslo, Norway. In addition to being a residential area, the area has been a ski recreation area since […]
Viking Wooden Animal Carving
Viking Wooden Animal Carving While on my trip to Oslo, we had some down time and took a ferry over to Bygdøy and spent a few hours at the Viking Ship Museum. When you stop and think, the first permanent English settlement in North America was Jamestown, Virgina in 1607 and these ships may have predated […]
Home again … or?
Home again … or on my way again? So, for the past three weeks or so I’ve been on the road in Europe for a work trip Bracknell UK, London, Frankfurt and Paris. Luckily I was able to take my wife along for some of the travels and also my camera and new lenses. I’m […]
Photo Luggage and packing gear for travel
Photo Luggage … All I need is a Sherpa This weekend, I’m going on a business trip to the UK, Germany and France for about 17 days, and getting my photo gear ready. I’ve picked up a few new pieces of glass and needed a larger bag, so I went with a roller carry-on for […]
Roxy Tests
Roxy, Border Collie & Queen of the house Playing around with the dogs and a couple new lenses – One day my wife will love me as much as she loves her Border Collie, Roxy … er.. ok … maybe not … a man can dream I guess 🙂 Here are two images taken with […]
Star Squared
Trifecta’s Morning Star Squared Playing around a bit with some new lenses, and my dogs as my guinea pigs. This is a Tamron 28-300 f/3.5-6.3 on a Nikon D610 body… actually, this is a Golden Retriever who’s photo was taken with the equipment combination above 🙂 I cleaned up the photo a bit with Lightroom, […]
Boston: The Times Pub
The Times Pub – Boston Another set of images taken while walking around the Financial District and Downtown Boston. This image is composed of three Lightroom merged exposures (-2, 0, +2) and some post processing in onOne Photo Suite. The Times Pub sign is what caught my eye, and the brick wall … so grabbed […]
Boston Summer Street and South Station
Summer Street, Boston I’ve been up in bean-town for a business trip this week, and the weather has been fairly crap all week – that is until yesterday afternoon. After work, I walked around downtown for a couple hours taking photos and looking something for dinner. I grabbed this image in three exposures (-2, 0, +2) […]
Barcelona Cathedral Revisited
Barcelona Cathedral Revisited On the road again, this time in Boston, Mass… and it was an unusually rainy and cold night so I spent the evening in my hotel room catching up on some of Matt Kloskowski‘s Lightroom and OnOne training videos I purchased last month… I somehow missed Lightroom’s inclusion of a native merge […]