Happy Easter and La Sagrada Familia

La Sagrada Familia - Crucifixion - 20150808 - john-p-hoke

La Sagrada Familia – Happy Easter Happy Easter Weekend everyone. Here is a photo of La Sagrada Familia (the Church of the Holy Family) taken on my last trip to Barcelona. I’ve been going through a bunch of photos taken for a project of prints I am working on and this caught my eye and begged […]

Westminster Abbey – Black and White HDR

Westminster Abbey Black and White HDR-20160123-John P. Hoke

Westminster Abbey Another image of Westminster Abbey from my trip to London in January. This one was captured using a Sigma 12-24mm lens at about 17mm on my Nikon d610. The HDR was created from two sets of three exposures (-2, -1, 0, +1, +2)  merged in AuroraHDR Pro and then tweaked about until I was happy […]

Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London

Saint Paul's Cathedral from the River Thames

Saint Paul’s Cathedral from the Banks of the Thames I recently returned from a business trip to London and surrounding areas, and had some free time to walk around and take photos. It was interesting to be alone in a city again, with only my camera. On this night, the Thames was at low tide, […]

Budapest: Saint Matthias Church III

St. Matthias Church in Budapest, Hungary at Castle Hill.

Mátyás-templom (Saint Matthias Church) I’ve posted other photos of Saint Matthias Church in my Budapest photo gallery, but I really did like the way this image came out. This building has had a long, somewhat crazy, history. Tradition holds Saint Stephen founded the church as the Church of Mary in 1015 AD, and this original […]

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 […]

Barcelona Cathedral Revisited

Barcelona Cathedral III

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 […]