I wanted to do this for a while, and finally April 9, 2011 was the perfect chance – take photos of letters in alphabet order. I must say in advance, I cheated a bit – I just couldn’t skip perfect “Z” and took duplicate versions of some letters: “B”, “L”, “O” just to name a few.

I went around Vancouver for around 2 hours, with Armin Van Buuren’s State of trance on my iPhone, shooting signs, billboards, advertising etc.

Nothing spectacular here, but I hope to get some comments. Thanks!

Tags: Alphabet, Assignment, Letters, Vancouver

Three days in Rome, three magical days of exploration of ancient culture, indulging in local food, enjoying best coffee and gelato.

First day was spent learning everything ancient Rome has to offer: Vatican, Colosseum, Dome etc.

This is part one of three part Rome collection and I’ve included Vatican shots here. Vatican museums, St. Peter’s Basilica and St. Peter’s Square. Enjoy!

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Tags: Buildings, Cityscapes, HDR, History, Italy, Night, Outdoors, Panorama, Rome, Vatican

After 3 days at village of Anacapri on Capri Island, we’ve rented a car (with driver) and went on our way to Rome.

On our way we made a stop at the beautiful town of Sorrento. The weather was spectacular: we’ve grabbed lunch, did some shopping for famous Sorrento’s music boxes. After stopping at the view point for some photos, we were on our way to Rome.

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Tags: HDR, Italy, Panorama, Sorrento

Oh my… After intense editing and sorting I’m proud to show these set of photos I took while staying at Anacapri – beautiful village on Capri Island in Italy.

We’ve spent three days there… Exploring view point, eating at great pizzerias (that’s where we’ve discovered that each restaurant has ‘cover charge’) and of course took a ride in one of the famous Capri Taxis.

We’ve stayed at Capri Palace – same hotel Leo DiCaprio stayed couple of weeks before us… Enjoy this set!

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Tags: Anacapri, Cityscapes, Food, HDR, Italy, Long exposure, Nature, Night, Outdoors

Our main portion of the trip started at Anacapri on Capri Island. There are more than two thousand photos take at Anacapri and I will load them at later time.

For now here is a teaser of what next three days were like. We took a boat from Sorento to Capri Island – it was quite stormy and I will load video of that rocky boat ride in the near future.

Tags: Capri, Cityscapes, HDR, Italy, Nature, Outdoors

Another day of October’s Europe Trip was spent at the ruins of Pompeii. Amazing guide we’ve had made this trip not just fun but also educational. We’ve seen fast food stations, road crosswalks (which by the way look just like modern ones except they are made of raised rocks rather than painted on and were functional – when roads were flooded, pedestrians were crossing streets using them to not wet their feet) whore house (yep with menu of services in form of paintings on the walls) and houses of rich and famous. Amazing fact that Pompeii was a port and beauty of pomegranate trees, two theaters and gladiators training facility – are just few more highlights to mention.

Most of the photos were done as HDRs as it was quite cloudy and sometimes rained which made these shots more dramatic. Enjoy!

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Tags: Buildings, Cityscapes, HDR, History, Italy, Nature, Outdoors, Panorama, Pompeii

Here is another bunch of photos of Beautiful Vancouver. These photos were taken from Lookout Vancouver at Harbour Center on January 8 2011.

Tags: Buildings, Cityscapes, HDR, Long exposure, Night, Outdoors, Vancouver

While at Penha Longa resort, we went to Lisboa (Lisbon) and Sintra for a day trip. We did some shopping, visited couple of castles and famous Rossio Square (Praça de D. Pedro IV), Pena National Palace and Castle of São Jorge from which you can see beautiful red roofs of Lisbon.

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Tags: Buildings, Cityscapes, HDR, Lisboa, Nature, Outdoors, Panorama, Pena Palace, Portugal, Rossio, Sintra

This is second set from recent Euro Trip. This first day in Europe we spent in Penha Longa Resort in Portugal. I spent some time outside to explore this beautiful resort and came back with hundreds of photos. Most of photos are HDR, but not crazy post-processed. I’ve used Photomatrix Exposure Fusion feature to merge 3 differently exposed images.

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Tags: Buildings, Cityscapes, HDR, Indoors, Nature, Outdoors, Panorama, Penha Longa, Portugal

After going through 5,000+ photos from recent Euro Trip, I’ve decided to separate them into separate sets on Flickr.

Presenting first day of that trip, which was flight. Below are photos are not just from my camera (Nikon D90) but also from my iPhone, which there were quite a few.

More photos are coming later, as I slowly dig through digital piles.

Tags: Airplane, Flight, Food, HDR, Long exposure, Night