Sunset over Zaanse Schans

I don’t really have any new photos right now, so let’s keep going with more from my archives. There are still many that I haven’t posted before. Today, let’s stop in Zaanse Schans near Amsterdam, for a windmill photo. As I suggest in my Top photography spots in Amsterdam list, this is the spot you have to go to get a nice windmill shot when you are there.

This is a single exposure, broken into two and blended back together in Photoshop.

Green fireworks

I was in the mood for another fireworks photo today, so here is one more from Budapest. The beautiful thing about fireworks is, that even if you do many from the same spot, each one is a bit different. There is just so much variation and randomness in them.

This is a single exposure, that I broken up into two with different RAW edits and then blended them back together in Photoshop.

Lit up reflection in Porto

When the weather does not play along, the blue hour always makes for nice photo. Even if you have zero clouds during the day, and it’s crazy hot, you just have to wait until the eveing when the lights come on. Then, you can get a nice photo. If you have a tripod that is. I would not try evening and night photos from hand.

This is a photo taken in Porto Portugal one summer evening. Not really sure how it was edited, as I did that a while ago, but I think I used Oloneo Photoengine here, and finished it in Photoshop.

4K wallpapers from the UK

Today the theme for the new wallpapers is places around the UK. You have here one from Birmingham, Lake district, London and Edinburgh. Download them now.

Busy evening on the Charles Bridge

Continuing with photos from my past travels, here is one taken from the top of one of the Charles bridge towers. If you ever been there, you would know that the walkway on top is quite narrow and you have to take photos through holes in the walls. Not really an easy spot to set up a tripod. And even if you do, each time somebody wants to pass by, you have to move to the side. Looks like the builder’s hundreds years ago did not have photographers in mind at all :)

But it’s a good sunset spot, as the sun sets behind the castle hill most of the year. This is a three shot blend, done in Photoshop.