fenced framing

I took a walk while she was getting her hair done in the bridal suite. Shooting in RAW on manual exposure makes me far more thoughtful with my shots, even though I have quite a bit more frames than I would with a roll of 35mm. I liked this one slightly better than its deleted neighbor that focused on the foreground instead of the background.
(ISO 200, f/13.0, 1/30s)

almost there

It's amazing that for the six years I spent on campus as a student, I never once thought of this vantage point as particularly noteworthy. It's amazing what a few years of camera perspective can do for one's appreciation of beauty. (Of course, I can't take all the credit for the framing. A friend clued me in, then a random student walked by with the same idea and an iPhone.)

(ISO 100, f/9.0, 1/80s)

splashed with pink

(ISO 100, f/9.0, 1/40s)

exiting the garden

I love using framing and interesting points of view. The cherry blossoms are a bright addition to an otherwise dreary Sunday.

(ISO 100, f/9.0, 1/80s)

arched symmetry

So much for "standard" photos at the building museum!
(ISO 800, f/5.6, 1/50s)

lonely tower

It is awfully hard to get a shot of the Eiffel Tower and nothing more. I succeeded a few times. If you look close enough, I'm sure you can see the hordes who waited for hours in line to take the elevator to the top.

(ISO 200, f/3.5, 1/800s)

framed

I took many framed shots this week. I don't mean framed in the sense of "I'm going to print this out and put it in a frame." Framing in photography is using something in the foreground to frame the main subject in the background. Another example would be my earlier shot from Sacre Couer. I often did it to add visual interest to subjects that have seen far too many shutterbugs capture them the same way. Here, I framed the Château de Fontainebleau as I took one parting glance at its magnificence. Too bad we planned poorly and couldn't go inside!

(ISO 100, f/9.0, 1/125s)

peering over the grounds

Flagler House has since been turned into a museum in Palm Beach, Florida. It sits on the Intracoastal Waterway. You can see the view from the estate. Pretty nice, no?
(ISO 100, f/7.1, 1/320s)

a forgotten memorial

Obscured by trees and rarely visited, the World War One Memorial is often overlooked by tourists looking for the WWII, Vietnam, or Korean War memorials.
(ISO 800, f/4.0, 1/13s, eV -1.00)

dissection of a wall

ISO 800, f/8, 1/16s