As I mentioned previously, I had the good fortune to witness this year's 4th of July show in downtown Austin from the 20th floor of a residential highrise. This was the view. Allow me to state the obvious: this view is awesome. I took a whole bunch of shots of the fireworks show, but I also got some cool cityscapes from angles that I had never before seen. I really enjoy city shots and when you can get 20 stories above it all, it makes all the difference in the world. This was the scene while folks waited on the fireworks show to begin. There must be thousands of folks over there in front of the Long Center, not to mention all the folks on boats. It was cool to see it all from up high. More shots from this spot to come...
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Here is another one of my "pure blur" or pure bokeh shots, this one from San Francisco. Though San Fran is obviously a great location for typical photography, I found it to be interesting for these bokeh shots as well since there are so many twinkly lights around. This is the Bay Bridge, and unlike some of my other pure bokeh shots, you can pretty much tell, if you know the bridge. I was on a pier one evening, taking shots of just about everything, and turned and saw this. Of course I got a bunch of "normal" shots of this bridge too, but I just had to spin the dial and blur it up a little!
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My recent trip to Kansas City was quite a lot of fun from a photography perspective. When I checked into the hotel, they said my room was on the 14th floor and had a city view, which immediately pleased me. Isn’t that just pleasing to the ears? “Ah yes, a city view from the 14th floor”. Anyways, when I got there I dropped my stuff and immediately headed to the window to see what this view was all about. Fortunately, it was a sliding glass door with a tiny balcony (big enough for two legs of a tripod, with the 3rd leg back in the room) and actually did give me quite a wonderful view of the city. The next morning, when I awoke it was blue hour, which is such a fantastic time to shoot. I threw open the sliding glass door, set up the tripod, and stood in awe for a moment before clicking away. This is the view off to the right, with about half of the downtown area in the distance. I have some additional shots of the entire city, and I also had a great view over Union Station too! Basically, it was the perfect place to shoot Kansas City from! I also got various shots of KC at night from my balcony, so be prepared for more HDR work from KC coming your way!
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Looking over KC from the WWI Memorial, with Union Station in the foreground
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Austin, TX at about 6:30am last Sunday morning
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