Here are some photos from my trip to France. I went to 11 towns in 21 days, and took almost 3000 photos with my new Nikon D90 camera.
(I just realized that these were taken in 2009, not 2010.)
I took a trip to India in 2010 and here are my favorites:
Textile Merchants in Chandi Chowk in Delhi
Comtemplative Monkey at Agra Fort
Sweeper in the Amber Fort in Rajasthan
and of course the obligatory Taj Mahal.
Fishing at sunset in the Philippines, March 2010.
Land’s End, San Francisco, December 2010. This was when matt_mcl was visiting, btw. It was his idea to go here.
Well I have some good shots from my trip to Peru
Machu Picchu 1
Machu Picchu 2
We named him Bob. When I took this we were in a rickety old canoe in a piranha filled lake and Bob was close enough for me to lean over and touch.
Birds
Amazon
Not Peru but still pretty
I didn’t go to the exotic places so many of you went to and my camera (and skills) are nowhere near as good as some of yours (by the way sparky! your last pic in the OP is now my wallpaper).
But, 2010 was a good year for me. In January alone, I turned 30, spent my birthday at Disney, came home and got my new puppies the next day, and my boyfriend closed on our new house. Since I got a Coolpix camera for Christmas 2009, I took more pictures last year than ever before. These are my top 11. Not surprisingly, they’re mostly my dogs.
My new puppies. Ginger is on top. Holly is on bottom. We picked them up from the transport drop-off in CT and they spent the whole hour long ride home sitting on my boyfriend’s lap. They were so stressed from the 3 day ride from Arkansas that every time he tried to put one of them down, they’d start crying. They completely relaxed when we got home and they experienced snow for the first time.
Shortly after we got them. They were both still stubby little puppies and Holly still had her floppy ears. I miss her floppy ears.
A month or two after they came home. They’re not huge dogs but when they try to do this now, one will typically fall off the couch.
Our first trip to the rec area. Holly is finally starting to look more like a dingo and less like a midget German Shepherd. We still have no clue what mix of breeds are in these dogs but Holly looks so dingoish that we just go with that.
Ginger, looking nicely zen and a whole lotta evil. I didn’t even think that was possible.
One of the few pics that I didn’t take. I was really cold and apparently so were the dogs because they decided we needed to share body heat.
A snow covered Lake Sabrina during Memorial Day.
A Rainbow Trout from the Yakima River in Washington.
Nice!
I want to try and paint your picture of Old Town, Lyon, France. Very, very nice.
That first picture is amazing!
I concur!
How did you get such a wide exposure? Is that a digitally stitched panorama? Amazingly smooth if so, my panaromas almost always have a visible seam where the camera angle changed enough to confuse the stitching, or because something else like a person walking or other moving object crossed the join line.
Thanks!
I use a cheap Kodak V3000 that allows up to 3 shots to be stitched together. For that shot, I rested the camera on a barricade.
Every now and then the stitch will be noticeable, but mostly it comes out great.
Pictures taken right from the camera tend to be too dark/bland (color-wise) so I edit them using iPhoto on my Mac. It’s fun to take a boring shot and edit it into something nice.
I mostly take pictures of buildings, especially county courthouses around where I live. Here are some of the better ones from last year:
The Queen Victoria Building in Sydney
Lake County Courthouse, Crown Point, Indiana
A horse-drawn bus and a boarding house in Greenfield Village
Indiana’s first state capitol and the county courthouse in Corydon, Indiana
Thanks! It looks a LOT better now that somebody here messed with it so I’ll be printing that out. Fixed picture: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2053431&l=1542e11e5a&id=1390062723
I have a lot of decent pictures of the two of them but they are so often cell phone photos because I picture message them to Ben while he’s at work. Plus they’re all candid and having to find my camera, turn it on, etc., I’d lose the shot anyway but I always have my phone close at hand. Oh well. They aren’t great photos but they’re still fun to look at. Here’s another one I really like just because I had just come out of the shower and Alex (the bigger one) totally had it covered: Facebook
I’m perplexed that others have commented on another photo you posted but that none have mentioned this. This one isn’t just a photo…it’s a work of art. I could look at it for a long, long time. A brilliant, brilliant piece!
…cheers guys! Love your photos too, fantastic stuff.
The caption you added made me a little sniffly. May your boys never know a moment’s sibling rivalry.
Thanks! I almost erased that after I took it because it was so dark. I took my normal editing a bit further than normal and that pic is the result.
Autorickshaws in Kochi, Kerala.
A warm afternoon in Kochi, Kerala.
ETA: If you haven’t done it already, get your hands on wierdaaron’s greasemonkey script for the sdmb. Image preview is fantastic in a thread like this!