And here’s the half…

You know a sub is pretty roomy when you take out the stuff that’s in the way.  I had a harder time navigating my way through the sub from forward to aft as I’m a bit wide in the shoulders and I was wearing my Manfrotto camera backpack which makes turning a chore.  The Croaker …

USS Little Rock CG-4 Decomissioned

Finished with the walk through of The Sullivans, we walked up another gangplank to the stern of the USS Little Rock.  The Little Rock started out life in WW II as a Cruiser, then in the fifties, she was upgraded to a Guided Missile Cruiser with the addition of a TALOS guided missile system.  The …

Buffalo and Eire Naval Park and Memorial

This past weekend was another spent down in Buffalo.  Darleen has a couple more weeks to go down there before she’s back over the line and home.  We, well I’d been eyeing up the Naval Park as a possible destination for some walkabout action and after press ganging my wife into the whole thing off …

Cheltenham Badlands

Threw my leg over the bike for the first time in a few weeks.  I like to get out fairly early on a Sunday morning, well any weekend morning before the bulk of the idiots get on the road.  The Badlands are above Brampton so I opted to go up the 410 instead of going …

More decay from Buffalo…

And yes it’s still in HDR. So if there’s one thing HDR doesn’t seem to like, it’s white or light backgrounds.  So use this image more for reference of size than for the image itself because to me the front facade and the sky are blending in to one and other.     A little …

HDR – The Workflow

As I go deeper down the HDR rabbit hole there is so much about the process that I enjoy.  I like the expanded dynamic range, I like the hyper realism and how it really enhances every surface imperfection (but as a positive).   However there is a need for attitude shift in regards to the …

Niagara Falls from the American side…

First off before we get to the Falls, a couple of shots from the previous set that I missed posting up. Now on to the Falls. Canada is pretty smug about having the Horseshoe on our side and yes you can pretty much get to withing ten feet of the edge of things at that …

Erie County Hall and a couple of others…

It took a bit of searching to find the name of this building.  It’s a very imposing edifice.   Again, the HDR process does a nice job of punching up the texture of the place.  This was about halfway into Darleen and my walk around the downtown.  It was pretty windy and more than a …

Buffalo, NY City Hall

This is an impressive building.  One of the reasons I’m leaning more towards HDR for this sort of thing is the detail you pick up in the images.  This building is full of detail.  It’s not often you see a true Art Deco building that is Art Deco down to its foundations.  The Wiki on …

Neutron Bomb

Darleen’s down in Buffalo, NY right now so I went down to see her this weekend.  Buffalo is one of those cities that’s got a lot of urban decay.  Some of it was self inflicted, some of it was changing markets and I’m sure some of it was just plain ignorance on the part of …