CAPTURE NEW HORIZONS

A quick day trip to Paris for a couple of meetings gave me time to walk back through the Place de la Concorde in the spring sunshine before catching the Metro and RER back to the airport. As with all well photographed tourist sites, the challenge is to find some different angles to take some images that stand out from the norm.  Using the X-T1 with the 35mm f1.4 and 56mm f1.2 Fujinon prime lenses I tried to capture some images of the Luxor Obelisk in the centre of the Place de la Concorde. The Luxor Obelisk stands at 75 feet (23 metres) and is a 3000 year old Egyptian obelisk that stood outside the Temple at Luxor before being shipped to Paris in 1833.  Originally there were two obelisks standing at the gates to the temple at Luxor and the twin of the Paris Obelisk still stands in Egypt. CLICK HERE for more on the Luxor Obelisk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPP...

I like the panoramic format for landscapes and I either crop suitable images to a 12:5 format or I stitch several images together in Photoshop to create a panoramic image.  However I have always created panoramic images on the horizontal and never on the vertical.    After reading an article on vertical panoramics I started to search out compositions that would suit the format.  I saw one such image in Place de la Concorde in Paris last Saturday morning with the three vertical items - the ornate lamp post, the Obelisk and the Eiffel Tower providing the elements for the composition. The second shot is of the column in the centre of Place Vendome. Images taken on a Fujifilm X100 with a Fujinon 23mm f2 lens ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to cl...

Some more images from Paris, this time from the Place de la Concorde. After a long walk down the Champs Elysee to photograph the Christmas lights (see images HERE ) I inevitably ended up in the Place de  La Concorde.  The contrast in the lighting at night is massive, with the bright illumination of the big wheel and the Obelisk and the very low level of illumination from the street lamps.  Once again the X-Trans sensor on the X-Pro1 coped very well when coupled with the excellent XF35mm f1.4 lens.   Here are some of the shots from this part of my evening in Paris. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ----------------------------------------...