T3 Imagery

The Vltava Waterfront

The Vltava River runs right through Prague, Czech Republic.  Heather and I were there in June, 2006 – just a few short months before our family became three.  Prague is a beautiful city – the communists managed to not screw all of it up!  This shot was taken near the opera house and is just up the street from the Dancing House.

Vital Stats: Canon 350D w/Canon 17-85 @ 59mm  ISO 100, f/8.0, 1/400 sec.

One More From The Road

Here’s another RAGBRAI shot – this one from 2005.  This one was from the last day that year at the top of a long climb.  I made it up first – and stopped to wait for the rest of the crew.  Again, this was shot with a cheap point and shoot – and I’m playing it up by using some Lomo-style processing.

Mister Seven

Recognize the man in black (and yellow)?  Yep – it’s Mr. Livestrong himself.  Since it’s the starting day of RAGBRAI, I thought I’d post a snapshot taken at RAGBRAI 2006 of Lance riding through a small town in Iowa.

Techically – it’s nothing to write home about.  I had about 15 seconds to pull my cheapo point-n-shoot out of the saddlebag, run to the curb, and fire.  I just love it because it’s photographic proof that for a few hours, at least – I was leading Lance Armstrong across Iowa.

Ah, what sad things we come up to make ourselves feel better.  We’ll miss you in Iowa this year, Lance!

Lookin’ up Acorn Street

Here’s one last shot from my Acorn Street series – this one shot from the foot of the one-block historic alley.  By this time, it was late enough in the morning that shooting from the top really wasn’t feasible due to the angle of the light.

I love the angle and perspective of the shot – your eye gets naturally drawn right into the picture.

Vital Stats: Canon 5D Mark II w/Canon 17-40 f/4L @ 32mm  ISO 100, f/16, 1/8 sec.

Lal Bagh Tower

This shot is of Lal Bagh Tower – situated in Lal Bagh Gardens in Bangalore, India.  It’s sitting on the Peninsular Gneissic Rock hill in the gardens – which is supposed to be one of the oldest rocks on the planet clocking in at somewhere around 3000 million years old.  Give or take a few, that is.

I was here on my last day in Bangalore after I had my business wrapped up.  I was killing a few hours before flying home that night and I had a nice walk in the park – shortly before my guide tried fleecing me for $50.  Sorry pal – I know what the going rate is.

Vital Stats: Canon 350D w/Canon 17-85mm IS @ 50mm  ISO 100, f/9.0, 1/250 sec.

It’s the Ghost Light!

No, it’s not the moon.  It’s actually a Sno-Cat out doing the nightly grooming runs on Blackcomb Mountain.  Every night you can see several of these methodically working their way up and down the mountain getting the corderoy ready for the next morning.  Like many ski resort towns – Whistler has itself all decked out with Christmas lights to make the atmosphere around the town merry.

Vital Stats: Canon 5D Mark II w/Canon 17-40 f/4L @ 20mm  ISO 3200, f/4, 1/10 sec.

Stars and Cars

Last 4th of July, my family and I were on Whidbey Island in the state of Washington staying with our friend Beth.  That little community pulled out all of the stops – parades, contests, food, and of course.. fireworks.  I’ve never seen so many fireworks.  At the end of the parade, there was a formation of old cars all decked out for the event.  This was the front end of one of these beautiful old machines in the parade – proudly flying the flag(s).

Vital Stats: Canon 40D w/Canon 70-200 f/4L + 1.4x TC @ 280mm  ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/800 sec.

Manarola Peschereccio

We’re back!  Sorry for the short outage over the weekend – Apache wasn’t happy and the wizards behind the scenes at T3 Imagery had to make the appropriate sacrifices to get ‘er running again.  Thanks to Wizard Erik for the support!

Today’s shot is from Manarola in the Cinque Terre.  It’s one of the five fishing villages that make up the Cinque Terre, so you can expect to see lots of boats and gear to support that way of life.  It’s a pretty steep rocky drop to the water from where these boats are sitting – but the locals have erected a crane to make it easier.  We passed through here enroute to Riomaggiore and met up with my mother and William for the final part of the Via del Amore.

Vital Stats: Canon 350D w/Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 @ 17mm.  ISO 100, f/4.0, 1/60 sec.

Window Dressing

Here’s a quick blast of color for you on this Tuesday morning.  It’s one of the many flowerboxes located on Acorn Street in Boston.  Most of the row houses on this 8′ wide street have ornate flower boxes.  This is one of the reasons it’s such a photogenic alley – there is color everywhere!  It was purposely shot with a large aperture to blur the background and drive focus to the flowers in the foreground.

Vital Stats: Canon 5D Mark II w/Canon 17-40 f/4L @ 36mm  ISO 100, f/4, 1/20 sec.

Acorn Path

Here’s the most photographed and toughest to get to street in Boston once again.  It’s Acorn Street, located in the Beacon Hill area of Boston.   This time, I’m ‘low and wide’ – shooting at 17mm about a foot off the ground to exaggerate the foreground and the length of the road.  It gives it kind of a cool surreal look because the perspective gets pretty warped.

Vital Stats: Canon 5D Mark II w/Canon 17-40 f/4L @ 17mm.  ISO 100, f/4, 1/5 sec.