CAPTURE NEW HORIZONS

We spent a few hours wandering around the shopping districts in Tokyo with it bright neon signs providing a multi coloured spectacle to the streets of the Japanese capital city. Earlier we'd seen the Toyko Tower, which looks like a modern take on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.  Built in 1958, it is slightly more modern than the famous Parisien version, and is 333m high. After a few hours we took a taxi to the Hyatt Park Hotel and sat in the New York Bar on the 52nd floor with its spectacular panoramic views of Tokyo. Some more images of Tokyo at night - all images taken on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 + 23mm f2 or 19mm f2 lens (WCL X100 fitted) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Googl...

The picture of the week was taken at Potrero de los Funes, near San Luis in Argentina during a thunder storm that was one of the best I've ever witnessed.  Potrero de los Funes is situated on a lake in the middle of the crater of an extinct volcano.  The image itself was quite easy to capture. I set the camera on a tripod and pointed it across the lake towards the town and then opened the shutter on a very long exposure (30 seconds) and waited for the lightening to fork across the sky.  It was a bit hit-and-miss but I got this image on the fifth attempt.