While I was in Bordeaux, I really wanted a photo of the mirror fountain (Water mirror – Le Miroir d’eau). To bad, it was still too early in the year, so there was no water in it, so no mirror. Still, I went out to it in the morning to get few shots, and here is one of them. This is of course not the water mirror, that was right behind me when I took this shot :)

This is a single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Most of my shots from recent travel are from blue hours. With the weather and absence of any leaves on the trees, this is for me the best way to get some color into the shot here :). This is mostly a single exposure, I used a second, darker one to darken few spots, especially a strong light that shined right onto the tower.

I needed a bit of a rest after all the traveling around, so there have been no updates in few days (but I will catch up :)). But now it’s time to get back to work and edit and edit and edit.

So here is another vertorama taken in the La Defense part of Paris. This one was taken right from the ground level, looking up a bit. This is a three shot vertorama, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

So you don’t get bored with Amsterdam shots, here is one from Paris. This one is a two shot vertorama, taken from the Tour Montparnasse. I used the TSE lens to get two shots, and to see the road right under the tower. I also used the Lenskirt, to shade the camera, as this was taken through glass. The Lenskirt was not meant for such wide lens (maybe I should have bought the bigger one), but with a bit of work it worked out :)

There is also a bit of perspective distortion here, but I decided not to remove it as that breaks the composition I wanted, and the front part looks horrible afterwards.

So finally it was not raining in the morning, and I could go out to take few photos. So I decided to go to the I am Amsterdam sign. I hopped on a bus, and since I don’t know the locations of all the stops, I was looking at the display, to see where to get out. And it was, 4 stops to my destination, 3 stops, 2 stops, I’d should have gotten out 2 stops ago. What? I have no idea why, but the bus just skipped few stops, and I ended on a completely different stop I needed to. So until I caught a bus back, the morning blue hour was almost over and I got maybe 3-4 shots before the lights turned off. Just my luck.

But here is one of the photos I got. It’s a single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.