This is a low angle shot of Trump Tower Chicago. The saturation in the image was created by running it through a “toy camera” filter and adding some vignette to the edges. From Wikipedia:
The Trump International Hotel and Tower, also known as Trump Tower Chicago and locally as the Trump Tower, is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named after real estate developer Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 92-story structure, which reached a height of 1,389 feet (423 m) including its spire, its roof topping out at 1,170 feet (360 m). It is adjacent to the main branch of the Chicago River, with a view of the entry to Lake Michigan beyond a series of bridges over the river. The building received publicity when the winner of the first season of The Apprentice television show, Bill Rancic, chose to manage the construction of the tower.
The day began with the warm Italian sun rising from behind the hills of Rome and birds in the trees twittering like teenagers with cell phones. Or it would have, had I had the shutters on the windows up. As it was, I awoke to the alarm in a dark room.
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After a nice short nap and a warm shower, I headed down to the lobby for our first meeting. My room was on the fourth floor of the hotel and had this view, which was looking away from Rome.
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It’s hard to believe that this commercial aired in the UK a year ago. It’s celebrating Virgin Atlantic’s 25 years of flying. I’m a big fan of Virgin airways (praying that Virgin America makes a hub in Orlando). I’ve flown them over to the UK and via my part time job, met several of the cabin crew. Great crew and great flights. If only every airline brought this kind of attitude, flying would be fun again. Otherwise, enjoy the throwback to last year.
The really cool thing about watching other people’s videos on the web is that the better they are, the more you want to try out the effect. I’ve toyed around with Tilt-Shift photography and am currently playing around with time-lapse video. There are a couple of different ways to do time-lapse.
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Taken December, 2009, this photo shows some of the holiday decorations at the Norway Pavilion in Epcot at the Walt Disney World resort.
What’s better: the perfect vacation or one littered with unexpected events? I’d argue the second because it makes your stories so much better. The perfect vacation is, well, boring. Sure, the sites you saw are interesting, but with no hardship, there’s no conflict, no growth as an individual. No excitement.
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Taken at the Louvre in Paris in September 2008, I like taking photos not necessarily of the subject themselves, but of reactions to it. Here we see a collection of tourists studying, viewing and photographing the Venus de Milo statue.
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I’ve never had what I would consider a bad flight across the Atlantic until this trip. Perhaps “bad” is the wrong word. It wasn’t a “bad” flight, per se, just…well…
I was able to book round trip flights on Air France for less than $700 round trip total, which was a very good deal at the time…so good, I rushed to get my tour booked while I was finishing up the online booking. Talking with the agent on the phone, “we have space available; do you want me to put a hold on it for you?” To which I’m like, give me just a second to make sure I can get the flight confirmed. Everything went through and onto the credit cards.
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