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The True Grand Budapest Hotel

Looking down Fisherman's Bastion in the Castle Hill distict of Budapest

Grand Budapest Hotel So, I haven’t done this type of post yet, but there is a first time for everything. Last week I was in Budapest for business, and because of a music festival in town, my normal hotel was booked out, and I stayed at the Hilton Budapest Castle Hotel — and it truly was […]

26 hours to go …

Map of this summer's travel (so far)

Heading home … Its been a long 5 out of 6 weeks of business travel this summer – but it is coming to a close very shortly. In 26 hours I get on my British Airways flight from Budapest, Hungary to London, Heathrow … then Heathrow back to Philadelphia … then finally back into the Poconos […]

Viking Wooden Animal Carving

Viking Wood 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 in the yard 06282105

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 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 […]