While we’re on the topic of nerds, here’s some more from Geneva. We took a tour of CERN (Best. Birthday present. EVER.), and went to a carnival. You decide which was which… Okay, the last one was a “gimme”. In any case, if you can go to CERN, YOU SHOULD. The tour was fun – complete with a 3-D surround-sound-headphone movie – and we got to see nerds at work. You can’t actually go into the LHC, obviously, when it’s working. So we just watched people analyzing stuff in a big control room. Look how many monitors they have! I[…]
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Geneva: Talloires
We took a day trip from Geneva out to Talloires, a little town in the French Alps on Lake Annecy, near Italy. The water…was just absolutely amazing.
Read moreVenice
It seems like oh so long ago… Just before our paperwork day in London, Lefteris surprised me with an anti-honeymoon long weekend in Venice. By anti-honeymoon, I mean that we went just *before* we were married, and we spent the whole time pretending we were strangers meeting in a strange city. Scandalous. Everything you’ve heard or read about Venice is true. It’s amazing; it sort of seems like a Disneyland version of itself. Very few people actually live there – pretty much everyone you see is a tourist. But the setting is authentically, astoundingly beautiful – the whole place looks[…]
Read moreSeats – the same
While waiting for the subway in Barcelona awhile back, I realized that this… …had almost the exact proportions of a shot I took on the DLR in London a year and a half before: Neat!
Read moreHello Strangers!
It’s been more than a little while since I’ve posted any kind of update whatsoever here, and SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED. A few of my last posts were teases, too – I still haven’t put up my photos from Venice or Geneva (this orchid was from our hotel there), or done any explanations for Round 2 of the ZAAZ portraits I shot toward the end of 2011 in London. …but since then… Brussels We went to Brussels for a weekend. Haven’t even edited those photos yet! Christmas We spent our Christmas holiday in Spain (and a little bit of France)[…]
Read moreNew Orleans textures
I’m a sucker for shots like this. I always think I’ll layer them with something in Photoshop, and sometimes I do. When I look at them alone critically I tend to think there’s no real point to them, but what can I say…I just like them. Especially when shot with my 100mm/f2.8 macro lens which makes them dreeeeeamy.
Read moreHouse number 312
When numbers match their surroundings, I feel happy. 3 is green, 1 is black, and 2 is yellow or gold. The purple door just looks good with it. This was in New Orleans, across the river from most of the city in Algiers Point.
Read moreVenice preview
Our weekend in Venice was super-romantic. I’ll have a lot more to say when I get around to all of the photo editing, but for now here’s a preview of what’s coming up. We took our gondola ride at twilight because I wanted to get some slow shutter shots, and also because it was a particularly beautiful time of the day. The bridge in the background is the Rialto, which means we’re on the Grand Canal for this one.
Read moreNew Orleans Cafe/Gas Station
We stopped to get cold water at this strange little pizza place, which appeared to have a gas station next to it. I say “appeared” because upon closer inspection, the two were one and the same. Note: this is the place where you order your pizza, or buy your gas, depending on your needs.
Read moreShooting with a foggy lens
New Orleans is hot and humid – and all of the interiors are blissfully air conditioned. The downside of this is that a cooled lens taken outside quickly fogs up. The upside of that is that it kind of makes for cool photos. This happened to me once before in Hawaii, and I loved the effect then too!
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