Where to stay in Seattle? I can recommend the W Hotel, very good location, friendly personnel and nice rooms. Vis-a-vis you have a Starbucks, a bus station is in front of the hotel. They have a water dispenser with lemons and oranges, and it’s for free 🙂 .. and a nice lobby with a bar 🙂
On the way back from Bratislava Castle to the tuck tuck train (I like those trains 🙂 ) I saw a big green area circumscribed with this historical buildings. Since we were a bigger group, nobody had the patience to wait for a bigger photo session, so I had to take my Sony A7S and did some handheld shots.
I take any opportunity to try high speed shooting with my Sony A6000. At this horse competition I took my Sony FE 70-200 G – lens to grab some shots of the horses. I took exposures during jumping, sprinting or gallop as here on the photo. Sony A6000 is really a low cost alternative for high speed shooting.
Really cool, renting a bike via credit card in Chicago, I can recommend this to everyone. I took some big laps in the area of Shedd Aquarium, over rail bridges and on the Michigan Avenue, suddenly I saw that fountain and stopped immediately to take some shots. Chicago is a great city 🙂
Photo sessions in autumn often lead to pictures with the different colors of the trees and leaves, like here in front of my house. Having three birch trees in the dooryard brings us aplenty leaves on our pavement. It’s like a Sisyphus-work to take a broom or our electrical garden vacuum to remove the leaves, two or three days later you have the same view again 🙂
Holi festivals get more and more common in the western world, it’s like Halloween which gets more and more fans or the Oktoberfest, which gets copied in many countries. At a visit in Bratislava, by walking through the pedestrian area suddenly I was in the middle of a Holi festival. I tried to get not touched by the colors during shooting the photos 🙂
Being in Rome often reminds me of the movie “Roma” from Federico Fellini and other Italian movies playing in Rome. In the alleys and streets you find reminiscences of some scenes of those movies. All in all I like being in cities and get connections to movies I have seen …
At the boardwalk in St. Julians there are concrete sockets where you can place your camera and do long-term exposures in the night, if you don’t have a tripod with you. This was the case with me, because shortly before I had dinner and then I decided to take a walk at this nice promenade. The mirrored light in the sea and the light stars were fascinating.
Many cities have their trademarks which are typical and you can only find there, one of those trademarks are the tram buses of Hong Kong. They are slim and have a first floor, inside its is relatively tight if you want to go upstairs …
I am a fan of Japanese gardens and I’m lucky that there is one, which is named “Setagayapark”, near my home. Setagaya is a district in Tokyo and is a partner-district of Döbling in Vienna. So I used a Sunday afternoon to visit this park and have a look at the trees, bushes and leaves in the autumn.
