Just wanted to post a few quick shots of my trip this morning. I'm also trying to make a move from Photobucket to Flickr, so we'll see how this goes.

First of all, the new Halloweentime banners are up all around DTD:





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So...I wasn't at D23 this weekend, But on the bright side, Friday was the first opportunity that I've had in three months to take the camera and head off to the DLR as the kids are now back in school.


So, I thought I would post these to my blog though as I still have a live photo thread that is nearly finished in the Disneyland Forum. And even though I really should finish that one up first, I just wanted to post a few shots from last Friday as it's been eons...

I've been thinking of trying this for over a year now, so today I finally took the plunge and decided to try to figure out this HDR photography thing.

So here is my first attempt, with a few more to follow:



I'm not a HUGE fan of HDR, but it's fun to experiment once in a while, and I've seen some cool stuff out there, especially on Stuck In Customs HDR Photography...

So...I made a trip in to Disneyland today with my Nikon D90 that I'm....um....er...getting for Christmas (I had to test it out to see if it works...yeah...that's it) and I tried a few experiments to see if I could use the Sigma 10-24 on Pirates. So, after cranking the ISO up to 6400, I tried a few shots, and here are the results.

The first couple of shots were a bit darker than I would have liked. POTC is always a bit tricky as it's just so darn dark in there and you are always...

So yesterday I'm shopping at Fry's, and when I walked out around 9:45 AM, I knew it was going to be a bad day. The Santa Anas were howling and smoke was suddenly in the air, coming from the East, somewhere up near the 91 freeway. I drove home hoping they could jump on it quickly before it got out of control. About an hour later, my son walks in and announces that this fire is starting to look pretty bad. I grabbed my camera and went up on the roof to have a look around.

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