La Sovata

After the mountains we went to a salt water lake spa resort called Sovata. Sun was bathed, beer was drunk and food was sampled. Lovely!

Ceahlau

It had to happen at some point. After years of seeing it in the distance and claiming I could hike to the top if I wanted to, this year I actually did. It was a lovely but hard trek from 800 to 1800m. Well, it was for me anyway ;-). Cursing occurred on many an occasion. But I made it to the top and took some lovely pictures along the way. This particular one is a pano of 20 shots. Approx. 270°. I really like how it came out. Hope you like it as well.

The balcony

Yup, the view... :)

Planetary experimentation

I've wanted to do this for quite some time now. It's officially called a polar panorama but also named spherical or planet panorama. It's a 360° panorama of the Platz der Republik in Berlin. On top, you'll recognize the Reichstag and on the left is the Bundeskanzlerei or the washing machine as it's popularly known.
In total 42 shots went into it and after about 8 hours of crunching, this is what I ended up with.

On the flip side

Half an hour after taking the previous picture of the Eiffel tower, the sky started getting a wee bit darker. This was the sight from the tower towards the musée de l'homme. It is of course a panorama as well, this time 21 shots went into it's creation. Oh, and no, I did not darken the sky in post-production.

On the other side

This is the view on the side opposite from the previous picture. It's a panoramia composed of 17 hdr's based on 5 exposures each so basically it took me nearly half the day to get this result. The final tif file ended up at a whopping 1.25 Gb! :-s As with the previous picture I've uploaded a large-ish version to my skydrive for better effect.
Hope you like it, because I am quite happy with the result.

Panoramic Porto

With only a 50mm lens getting the whole bridge on it is not really doable. Solution? Take nine pictures and add some photoshop magic...

Cape white nose

We've spent a wonderful day at the côte d'opale with a couple of friends yesterday. Going from Cap Gris Nez via the beaches to Cap Blanc Nez. This panorama is a crop of a stitch of 22 pictures. The whole pano in Tif format is a whopping 700 Mb... yes, I was slightly shocked indeed. :-)

Old and new

I have posted a picture of this location before as well, but definitely not like this version.
This is a stitch of 25 separate pictures. I'm quite happy about how it turned out!

Happy new year!!!

Yes another year has passed by with its ups and its downs. I wish all of you the very best for 2010 and that it may be a better year then the previous one!
This picture was taken as you can probably guess in Romania and the ones of you that have been following this blog a little bit, will even recognize the location :-)

Oostende

We've been to Oostende on a whim yesterday. The weather was gorgeous and the day was a definite winner

Finally

Well, yes I know, it's been a long time and also I know that having my camera stolen wasn't supposed to hold me back from taking pictures, but it has. I can't really explain it. Anyway enough with the excuses and on to today's post. I went for a photowalk in Brussels yesterday to finally test drive the Samsung Digimax A50 that my good friend Stijn lent to me. As you can see it does quite a good job!

Piatra's lake, minus the snow :-)

On our last day in Piatra, we went for a delicious bbq :-). Along the lake this time. The same lake as the one in this shot. Different position and less snow :-)
Enjoy!

Botanique in spring

Since it was such gorgeous weather yesterday, I headed out to the Botanique to capture some springy shots. These are a couple of the results.
The first one is a composition of eight shots the second, a mere ten :-)
Enjoy!

Botanique by night

On Tuesday evening, my friend Paul and I went to do some nigh time shooting in town. This is the first of the resulting pictures. I'm quite satisfied by the result!
For those of you not from Brussels, this is the view from the botanical gardens towards the Koekelberg cathedral.

White Christmas

It started snowing on the 24th and hasn't really stopped since.
Here are two pictures I took today :-).
Merry Christmas to all of you!!!

Breakfast @ the KVS

Went for croissants this morning. :-)

Took my camera with me and shot this little beauty :-)

well, okay then

Here's a second one... this is actually what was at my back when I took the earlier one.

Place Royale

Went to place royale to take this pano. 8 exposures.

Brussels in the morning; a panorama of 15 exposures

I was up early this morning and took these with the intention of finally doing a panorama.
I'm very impressed by photomerge! The full resolution picture is 17021*3039 (yup that's 51 MegaPixels for you :-) ) and 158 Mb as a .psd or 21 Mb as a .jpg. :-s