Here’s a fun interview I did a few days ago! 🙂 Enjoy 🙂
I rarely take long exposure shots in these tropical places at night, but, when I do, I’m always surprised! It looks a little weird, right? Like it could be daytime but with really strange lighting? I think that’s what I like about long exposure night photography… in that everything comes out a bit surprising!
Here’s a fun video that Stu edited together for me (thanks Stu!) of some of my recent quadcopter footage from around here. Enjoy!
What a cool spot, eh? This is one of the many places we take our photo tours when they come to New Zealand. Naturally, we cancelled the previous one because of the outbreak, which was kind of a bummer. We haven’t put a new one up yet because I have NO IDEA what the travel landscape looks like for the next year!
On one of the days of the Cayman Cookout event, there are about 12 different “booths” set up where they make their absolute best meal from their country. It’s incredible and you get absolutely filled up with every possible food… then you have to go take a nap for a while because it’s almost impossible to move!
That recent Elon Musk video reminded me of this classic one.
Wet Pudong sounds kind of naughty, eh? This is the “business” area of Shanghai where nobody really lives. So, at night, it’s pretty much empty! That makes it great for nightcrawlers like me that enjoy taking nighttime cityscapes without a bunch of people getting in the way.
I don’t know who took the time to make this video but it’s hilarious.
Here’s another view of this rather ridiculous monstrosity in Singapore. I guess when you have a ton of money you come up with ideas like, “Hey let’s build a rainforest with waterfalls indoors!” And then everyone else around the conference table would ring in with cheers. I do actually wonder how these things are funded. I assume its a mix of government money and private capital. It might be boring, but a documentary about the financing of these kinds of projects would be quite interesting.
If you’re a Passport member then you get to see today’s making-of!
Here, you’ll see the way I use various tools to create today’s photo.
Today’s photo exemplifies the idea of sunrays through the Autumn scene… Just another in a set of using Aurora and Luminar to create something amazing!
I don’t often do staged shots, but I did this time! I was at this amazing library in Tianjin with Curtis and one of the ladies from the Ritz-Carlton. I thought the photo would look better with a person in there pretending to read a book, and it does! It was pretty funny because in the first take we realized the book was upside down.
The whole time I was there in Botswana, I think I only saw male lions twice, so you can imagine how exciting that was. There was one surprising thing that made photography a little difficult in that these guys can be surrounded by a huge cloud of flies. So I had to spend about half an hour in Photoshop to get rid of all of them… they were just distracting and made the lion look dirty.
I forgot where exactly I saw this intricate little model, but I’m pretty sure it was in Singapore, judging by the windows way in the back. The attention to detail is crazy. It reminds me a little of what Steve Carrell’s character would do in that movie Dinner with Schmucks, which is a fun movie I’d highly recommend!
This was actually NOT flying over Singapore, but a picture from my hotel bathroom. I always imagined that I would take some luxurious bath and look out at the window at the city, but I never did it. The only thing I did in the bathtub was to set up my tripod to take this photo. I zoomed in to about 90mm to focus on that rather cool building. The bigger one in the back is the one that has the rainforest and waterfalls.
