London Photography – October 2018

Tower Bridge Light Trails

London Calling?  In October I had a business trip over to London to attend the Payment Card Industry Community Meeting as well as a visit to our European HQ offices. While there was a ton of work to do in the ten days I spent there, I did have a number of opportunities to get out […]

Holyrood Palace Panorama

Holyrood Panorama

Holyrood Palace – Edinburgh Scotland I am going through some photos I took on a trip to Edinburgh back in October… Yes I am procrastinating as always 🙂 I found a series of shots I took to create an HDR panorama of Holyrood Palace, so I had some time while downloading software and wanted to […]

Rock of Cashel Panorama

Rock of Cashel Panorama ©2016 John P. Hoke

Panorama of Rock of Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland Last month I had the luck (of the Irish?) to head over to Dublin for a business trip, and took a few extra days for a short holiday with my wife while there. We grabbed a tour bus for a day trip to a number of sites, including the […]

Akaroa New Zealand

Caramel Crepes and Cafe au Lait

Akaroa NZ – France meets Kiwis I’ve just returned from a business trip through Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; and Christchurch, New Zealand for the past few weeks. After work on our last day in the Christchurch area we took a drive down around route 75 south with no particular destination in mind, just driving through […]

Sunset over Albrightsville

Sunset over the Pocono Mountains (Albrightsville, PA)

Sunset photos from 100 Feet over Albrightsville Still getting the hang of the Phantom 3 – as well as third party applications. Tonight it finally stopped threatening to rain, and the wind died down here in Albrightsville Pennsylvania, so I took out the drone and fired up a new app I grabbed: AutoPilot (iOS: App Store) and […]

Barcelona Panorama

Panoramic view of Barcelona from the top of the Cathedral of Barcelona

Panorama from the Cathedral of Barcelona Another photo from my recent business trip to Barcelona, this one is from the top of the Cathedral of Barcelona  (Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia).  This is about 210° centered on the large cross at the back of the Cathedral. For €3.oo to get to the top […]

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 […]