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Mickey's Fun Wheel is a 160-foot tall eccentric wheel at Disney California Adventure, at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Mickey's Fun Wheel has a large Mickey Mouse face at its center.
This is behind the old “Paradise Pier“ at CDA. As you can see I shot it with an old 5D Mark III and a Tamron 1.8 lens. The original full rez photo (before uploading to Flickr) is sharp as heck you could actually blow up the Zephyr sign to fill a screen and it looks perfect and no noise. Not bad for a 2 1/2 year-old photo and an 2012 camera.
One of these days I will shoot a panorama like this one of Paradise Pier but have all of the World of Color show in it as well. Hmmm....
I have to believe that the Imagineering Team that laid out the blueprint for Disney California Adventure must smile every time the sun sets. The Paradise Pier area provides the perfect backdrop for the retiring sun as day turns into night at the Disneyland Resort.
A few weeks ago, a group of local disney photographers got together for a quick meetup at the parks. The venerable Gregg Cooper staked out a spot at the Sub Lagoon and came away with a spectacular shot. Mike and I had camped out at Paradise Pier and had only a short time to wait before the sky began to light up. We were so busy looking at the sky that took a few minutes for us to realize that all of the hardware for the World Of Color show was actually submerged during the sunset hours, which, from my experience, was virtually unheard of. Typically, the fountains and lighting rigs are up well before sunset as they begin testing the fountains several hours before each nightly show. For whatever reason, everything was submerged on this particular night and Mike and I wasted no time in shooting the lagoon until no light was left in the sky. We also met flickr user CobbPR who was also there shooting that evening.
This particular shot was taken with the uber cheap Zenitar 16 mm 2.8 fisheye which held up pretty well considering I was shooting without the tripod in low light. I think my last 4 or 5 shots of the night were with the tripod, but for the first 20 minutes or so of this particular sunset, I was everywhere at once with that fisheye.
Disney California Adventure Park
Mickey's Fun Wheel
Was fortnuate enough to catch some nice puffy clouds in the sky in the middle of the afternoon inside the park. Interestingly enough, it was strange to have no one in my frame during this setup.
Mike D.
On afternoons when I arrive at the Disneyland Resort knowing that there is a strong possibility of a decent sunset, I really have a difficult time deciding where I want to camp out waiting for the sky to light up. Should I go to the Rivers of America, or shoot back over Splash mountain, or the Partners Statue? The Sub Lagoon is always good, and I had also been wanting a shot of the Christmas Tree on Main Street taken from the castle with the sky glowing behind.
I finally opted for my old stand-by down at Paradise Pier. I know I've shot down here numerous times, but there is just something about the sun going down behind the fun wheel on nights where the sky is lighting up, all of which is reflected in the Lagoon in the foreground.
On this particular night, the World of Color fountains and light towers had not yet been raised. This was the first time I had seen the lagoon without the fountains raised at sunset in over two years. It was easily my favorite night of shooting this area. As with the shot I posted just before this one, this was taken with the dirt cheap Russian made Zenitar 2.8 16 mm fisheye.
This shot has been a bit of an odyssey which has included taking a pano with a point and shoot, stitching it together in CS5, and then repeated trips between CS5, Lightroom 3, Nik Color Effects Pro, and even Nik Siver effects, then back again. I feel like I can still tweak it in several areas, and will be giving this another go when I have some more time this Summer. In the mean time, I really wanted to get the colors in the boardwalk to pop as it had just stopped raining literally minutes before I took the shot. I've wrestled with these colors for over four hours tonight, and I'm ready to hang it up for the day. But I also have a black and white version that I thought was interesting and will probably post in the next few weeks as well. There are two other shots that I've already posted from this night when I dropped everything, ditched my family, and ran like a maniac throughout the Paradise Pier area trying to catch the light with my point and shoot. I believe the correct image provided by Gregg Cooper was "Like a kid running after an ice cream truck."
Taken with the Pansonic Lumix LX3.
Explored at #2 on 4/21/11. Thanks for the views, comments, and faves! :)
"To all who believe in the power of dreams, welcome. Disney's California Adventure opens its golden gates to you. Here we pay tribute to the dreamers of the past: the native people, explorers, immigrants, aviators, entrepreneurs and entertainers who built the Golden State. And we salute a new generation of dreamers who are creating the wonders of tomorrow, from the silver screen to the computer screen, from the fertile farmlands to the far reaches of space. Disney's California Adventure celebrates the richness and the diversity of California... its land, its people, its spirit and, above all, the dreams that it continues to inspire." Michael Eisner, Feb 8, 2001
Not my best shot of DCA as it was taken with my point and shoot, but I wanted to get a quick shot up to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the park. This park has come a LONG way since it's opening 10 years ago, and it's great to see a massive effort under way by the Disney company to make it a stand alone park that future generations will enjoy.
Happy 10th Anniversary DCA!
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Another from the archives, dating November 2011. You might recognize this scene because I've previously posted it here in monochrome. I remember thinking the color version was too messy, but I just didn't have the processing skills to manage the colors for an image with so many elements.
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Had an awesome time hanging out with my wife, the Coopers, Bill, and Ryan the other night in a beautiful, yet mildly chilly, night in Disneyland. Gregg and Bill were testing out their speedy new toys but Ryan and I were showing that the old, slow, and clunky 5D mkII still had some tricks up it's sleeves.
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Our first time seeing World of Color from front and (nearly) centre, and it was a completely different experience. The meal we had at Wine Country Trattoria was great too, so the package is definitely something we would do again.
I slightly underestimated the wet warning and had to use a cap to cover the camera, there was one particular fountain that soaked us for a good portion of the Pocahontas segment so I had to try and clean up the front of the lens to shoot this. Worth it though!
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World of Color - Disney California Adventure
On a winters day.... Dallas / Fort Worth will set an all time record for snowfall in a given winter today. I would not mind being out in California on a day like today.
Trying something a little different with my post processing. Still a lot to learn. And I know... I wish the water jet platform wasn't showing, too.
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Paradise Pier
Disney California Adventure
[Explored 2.16.2016]
I would not have agreed to go to Disneyland if not for a chance to shoot this fun scene : P
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A gloden view of Paradise Pier and Cars Land as seen from Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel on a stormy day.
The line for the Cove Bar at Disney's California Adventure can be a little overwhelming at times, but the view of Paradise Pier is definitely worth the wait.
The interactive shooting ride that opened in Paradise Pier June 2008. Guests wear 3-D glasses and their trams travel through different carnival games themed to Pixar's Toy Story.
The fountains are illuminated by a kaleidoscope of multicolor LED lights.
Viewing Area: Preferred Dining (Blue Section), Front Boardwalk
We had seats in the very front, literally no one was in front of us!! We did get QUITE drenched from the "rain" from the show, but it was worth every freezing cold drop! World of Color is the most beautiful show I have ever seen and I can't wait to see it again! I was lucky that evening too and had the moon right over the Fun Wheel, so I have the moon in every shot I got :) Pretty cool!
World of Color
Paradise Pier
9:00pm Showing
California Adventure
Disneyland Resort
Anaheim, California
July 7, 2011
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Explored on Friday, June 8, 2012 at #452!
The LED lights on the fountains can change in various colors and different intensities.
Viewing Area: Preferred Dining (Blue Section), Front Boardwalk
I have been trying to get a decent sunset photo at Disney's California Adventure for awhile now, but it never seems to pan out for me. I was hoping this trip was going to be different, but I am still not happy with the result. Oh well, you know what they say...
"If you can't photograph the Sunset you want photograph the Sunset you get."
The fountains change into a blue and purple color scheme to a remixed rendition of "Wonderful World of Color"
Viewing Area: Yellow Section, First Tier (Moderately Wet Zone)
This was just one of those days you know the sky was going to do something special. From the moment I woke up and noticed the sky, I know photographing it was going to be fun. Problem was, I had dinner reservations at Ariel's Grotto, at sunset! Thank god, we were seated on the patio and I could interpret dinner about 25 times to fire off some handheld brackets.
Lesson learned, don't book dinner during sunsets. On a side note, what happened to California not having nice skies/sunsets?
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