I really liked taking photos by the canals in Birmingham. Looks like I will have to go to Venice sooner or later.

This is a manual blend from 3 shots. I took 5, but had no need for the brightest exposures.

The best thing about having a rainy weather when you try to take photos is, that thy can create puddles, so you have reflections in places where they usually are none. Same here. Usually no nice spot for a reflection from this side of the Eiffel tower, but with a little rain, there was a great one. I spend around 20 minutes just walking around and taking photos by different puddles, trying to find the best composition :)

This is a manual blend from 4 shots.

One of the places I had no time to visit is Paris, is the inside and mostly the top of Notre Dame. You just cant’t visit everything and with the sunset at half ten, most of things are already closed. My list of places I want to visit the next time in Paris is just getting bigger and bigger :)

This is a manual blend from 5 shots.

The only sunrise I really got up while I was in Paris. All others during the week were just not worth it. Always rainy or cloudy. But this one was actually quite nice, even if few scattered clouds would be nicer. I used my ND filter to take this to nicely blur the water and the traffic on the road. The ND filter worked out great, until it got loose form the camera when I was moving to another spot and fell on the ground. It split up into three pieces, but luckily the glass received no damage at all and I managed to put it back together :)

This is a manual blend form 5 shots.

If it was not difficult enough to take photos of a fountain and get no water on the lens, I was raining while I was taking this shots. But I managed to get a shot without any drops on the lens. That’s because I used the 24-70 from canon, and if you ever seen that lens, you know that it has a giant lens hood. It just perfect for when it rains :)

This is a manual blend from 3 shots, taken at the Place de la Concorde in Paris.