Bay of Kotor

Here is another photo from a past Europe trip where MJ and I ate to much gelato.  I don’t know what it is about Europe, but we eat to much of it on every one of our trips to that area.  We don’t routinely eat ice cream at home or on any other trips….. but Europe is gelato country for us. 

Anyway, this is the Bay of Kotor with the city of Kotor, which is located in the country of Montenegro.  Beautiful little country.  This city is a fortified town on Montenegro’s Adriatic coast surrounded by limestone cliffs of Mt. Lovcen.  The city goes back to the medieval times and probably earlier.

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Seattle Sunset

This photo is fairly old…maybe four or five years old.  I don’t remember what year I traveled to Seattle.  I could look it up, but I’m lazy as well.  This photo has been processed and sitting on my hard drive waiting for it’s turn to see the world.   I just forgot about it until this morning.  I sat at this spot for about 4 hours taking pictures from early evening, through sunset and afterward into the blue hour.  As you can see, it was a beautiful evening. 

 

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Point Of View Statue

I was out two nights ago on a photo walk with Dave Truxell and Blair Ward.  We spent some time at the top of Mount Washington looking down at the city of Pittsburgh.  This status is of George Washington looking directly into the eyes of a Native American.  I honestly don’t know the history of this statue.  But I can appreciate it and its location.

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Abandoned Montana Road

Montana Road

This picture was taken a few years ago, on our Yellowstone National Park trip.  If you’ve been to Montana before, you know how beautiful it is.  If you’ve never been, the landscape is so cool, it’s worth the trip.  We spent lots of time, driving around Big Sky Country to experience as much of the environment as we could.  On the day I took this picture, we drove for about 6 hours and probably saw 2 other people the entire time. 

Photo Technique:

I took this picture hand held (I didn’t have to worry about traffic) in Aperture mode with it set at f22.  I didn’t shoot any auto exposure brackets, this is just one exposure that I tone mapped in Photomatix Pro. 

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Pittsburgh's West End Lights

Tonight, I present you a HDR panorama picture of Pittsburgh taken from the West End Overlook where the three rivers come together.  You can see the West End Bridge, Rivers Casino, and Heinz Field (this is where the Steelers and the University of Pittsburgh Panthers play football) along the river on the left.  Of course, you can also see The Point with the downtown behind it.  On the right, you can see Station Square and Mt. Washington.   

I posted a similar picture in a previous blog post that you can see HERE.

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This was taken about 30 minutes after the sunset with a long exposure to capture all the traffic lights streaking around the streets.  This is a 5-bracket set (+2, +1, 0, -1, -2) merged in Photomatix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6.  

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