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A summer view of this scene. You can see a few other photos I took in Pennsyltucky this past weekend on my Flickr stream.
And the title is just a musical reference. Don't read anything else into it.
The future is bright. Alison and I are very fortunate.
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Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
A 3 exposure HDR, combined and tonemapped in Photomatix Pro with a bit of enhancement in Photoshop CS2.
The photograph is, as always, clickable.
This is the PPG Tower in downtown Pittsburgh. It is the centerpiece of PPG Place, a complex of six buildings that is the headquarters of PPG Industries, one of the world's largest glass manufacturers.
The complex was designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, and was completed in 1984. The tower is 40 stories, and rises 635 feet above ground level. I took this photo from atop Mt. Washington, across the Monogehela River from downtown Pittsburgh. Alison and I try to make it up there every time we visit the city. Luckily, Sunday was a beautiful, if cold, day.
And for the photogeeks:
Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 170 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/6 EV
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Aperture: f/22
Focal Length: 15 mm
ISO Speed: 100
A three exposure HDR, combined and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro.
Easter Sunday was a gorgeous day in the Burgh.
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The first time I visited Alison in France in the spring of 2005, I took hundreds of photos. Over 400 in Paris alone. At the time, I only processed a small number of them for upload to Flickr.
I had every intention of completing the task over the next several months, but I ended up back in France for 5 weeks that fall, and I never returned to the photos from the first trip.
Since I haven't been taking many photos lately, I decided to try and complete the task. As it turns out there were only a handful of photos that I felt good enough about to upload. They are now in my Flickr sets here and here.
This shot was taken as we sat outside of Café Psycho, across from the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, enjoying a beer and watching the world go by.
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One of the things we did while the kids were here was visit the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh to see their recently renovated dinosaur exhibit, Dinosaurs In Their Time.
That was the culmination of a whirlwind trip to Pennsylvania. Visits to Erie, Titusville, and Pittsburgh over the course of four days. That last day, besides visiting the museum, we ate dinner with Ali's dad and his wife, then hit the road to drive back to Lexington. We got home in the wee hours of Saturday morning.
Then we had to ready the house for a visit from Ali's brother and his family on Sunday. They returned to Erie on New Years Day.
The holidays were busy. Pretty much a blur. But we had a blast.
And I think it did me good to stay so busy. It made what could have been a depressing couple of weeks a delight.
I wish you all the best in 2008.
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Actually, we are on a road to somewhere. I'm just not sure where. That's part of the adventure that is life.
The photo was taken of the road where Ali's oldest brother lives with his family. I've taken many a photo of that road, but this is the first time I have shot it in winter. It has never looked more beautiful.
We will be taking the kids to the Cincinnati airport this afternoon to put them on their flight home. They have been with us for two weeks, and we have crammed a lot of activity into that time. But the time still flew by.
I wish they didn't have to go back.
Alison and I are getting ready to vacate the gîte, and begin our trek back to Lexington.
It is customary to leave a rental such as this as spotless as you found it when you moved in. This one was immaculate. Alison wrote the other day about how nervous it made her. But I think we will be leaving it in very good shape.
The floors are vacuumed and mopped, and we are going to go have lunch somewhere. We will finish packing when we return.
We will pick up the kids when they get out of school this afternoon, and drive to Bordeaux, where we will spend the night in a hotel. We have to get up early in the morning to return the rental car and board our flight to Paris.
We will then board another very long flight back to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, followed by an hour drive back to Lexington. We should be home early Friday evening.
As usual, it has been an adventure. Full of fun, meeting old and new friends, and the consumption of wonderful food.
And the traveling isn't over. In a few short days we heading off again to spend time with Ali's family for the holidays.
See you all soon.
Alison and I made it to France, and have settled into the house we are renting for the week.
We realized that we had gone for more than 24 hours without sleep. It was impossible to sleep on the flight over. The plane was packed, and we were surrounded by some of the most annoying fellow passengers you could ever imagine.
Ugh.
I wish I could afford for us to fly first class on international flights.
In any case, as I said, we are settled in. The kids are spending the weekend with us. Ali cooked a wonderful meal last night, and afterward, we sat down to watch Shrek the Third. Well, Ali and the kids watched it. I fell asleep on the sofa and missed the entire thing. I went into our bedroom to check the internet (yeah, we have tenuous internet access, thanks to a neighbor with an open router), and crashed on the bed.
I awoke sometime during the night in a dark room, fully clothed, and covered with a quilt. I went right back to sleep, and woke again at about 6 a.m. local time. I had slept for 10 hours.
Ali had slept in the kids room, and had awoken a little bit before me.
I guess that puts us back on a relatively normal schedule.
It is very cold here, but the skies are clear, and it promises to be a beautiful day. I don't know what we will end up doing, but I don't think we will spend it inside.
Time to put some kilometers on this unlimited mileage car we rented.
Alison and I are out of here for a few days.
We might, or might not, have internet access where we are going.
If not, we will see you when we return.
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