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Tag Archives: tripod
Play the Waiting Game at Busy Tourist Attractions
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Confucius Returning to Epcot at Walt Disney World for another tip on photographing in busy tourist attractions. This one can be tough if you are traveling with children but not … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged 18-200mm vr, blue hour, china, epcot, florida, hall of prayer for good harvest, lighting, lights, long exposure, nikon D70, orlando, pond, reflection, tripod, water
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View 275: Paint the Town Orange
With the Syracuse University Men’s Basketball team in Atlanta, Georgia for the NCAA Final Four Championship, upstate New York busted out in the team’s colors of orange and blue all last week. Onondaga County even lit up some of the … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly View
Tagged 24-85mm, basketball, blue hour, courthouse, everson museum, final four, lighting, long exposure, new york, night, nikon D700, onondaga county, orange, sculpture, street, syracuse, syracuse university, tripod, war memorial
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View 268: Syracuse from the 13th Floor
Spent the weekend at a hotel in Syracuse which I requested have a view of the city’s skyline. Setup up my Nikon D700 camera on a tripod with a Nikon 28-300VR lens (with VR turned off) in the room to … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly View
Tagged 28-300mm, blue hour, buildings, circular polarizer, city, filter, highway, interstate 81, light, long exposure, motion, movement, new york, night, nikon D700, sky, skyline, streaks, syracuse, tripod, vr
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View 266: Great Fall in the Woods
The name Taughannock comes from the Algonquian-speaking Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians, referring either to chief Taughannock or the word taghkanic (great fall in the woods) [Source Wikipedia]. I like the latter definition of Taughannock as you walk on a trail in the woods along a meandering creek to the … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, People, Weekly View
Tagged 28-300mm, boots, coat, creek, gloves, gorge, great fall in the woods, hat, hdr, ice, ithaca, man, men, modeling, new york, nikon D700, outdoors, Photographers, photomatix, snow, state park, taughannock falls, trail, trees, tripod, vr, walking, water, waterfall, white, winter, woman, women
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View 265: Water and Ice
The transformation of Ithaca Falls in winter is an amazing sight. Where water flowed freely was now incased in icicles. Where the water still flows is now restricted and takes different paths down the rocky cascade. A close up view … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Weekly View
Tagged 28-300mm, cold, falls, flow, freeze, hdr, ice, icicles, ithaca, new york, nikon D700, photomatix pro, snow, sun, trees, tripod, vr, water, waterfalls, winter
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