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Luncheon at Buddakan with Wines of Germany
It's really gorgeous here. Dramatic space with the very high ceilings and airy. When I stepped into this restaurant, it felt like I went into an upscale hotel.
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The morning was gloomy with occasional sun shining down on the ocean. An unintentional -2/3 exposure adjustment made the scene more dramatic!
I took these photos from the highest point on the Blue Ridge Parkway just southwest of Asheville. The Richland Balsam Mountain peaks at 6053 feet and this overlook gives a 180 degree view of Mt Pisgah and the surrounding ranges. Driving this road right at sunset is an incredible experience and as I pulled into this overlook I was overtaken with awe. The mountain ranges truly look smoky with the angle of the sun is low and the dramatic clouds and storms developing in the distance topped off the view.
I shot these with a rented Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II (which I have subsequently purchased) and a Nikon 20mm 1.8G on my D750. The panoramas are stitched in lightroom from handheld photos.
Check out the color photos in this album from the same viewpoint.
shot with a kit lens and a travel light set up. single side lighting to create stronger shadows and a dramatic effect. turned to grayscale using ACR.
Gotta love that lighting. I wished the tree branches weren't in the shot when I was taking it, but they add an interesting element and color to the image.
On Friday, May 20th, I had just come from a friend (Karen Rodewald) of mine's gallery opening at U Penn, and had my camera with me, as I sat for a little Friday afterwork talk and drink at Dirty Frank's. The conversation going on as I sat down was Philadelphia and it's reputation for rudeness. After some good joking about it ("Philadelphia. the city that knife's you back"), everyone present basically said that they did love this place, and that it wasn't rude, per se, just lacking the polite social artiface which is the norm in so many other places, that there was an honest "grit" to Philly that endeared each of us to it. As we were talking I realized that this was the exact feeling I got each time I tipped a drink in Dirty Frank's, and what I try to capture with my ongoing series of photographs taken there. At that point I picked up my camera and took this and several other pictures, hoping to catch a little bit more of that honesty.