This is a small set of images from New York trip I took October 2011. Here you will find: Times Square, Statue of Liberty, Radio City, huge skyscrapers, night views of New York skyline as seen from Empire State Building, panoramic views of New York from the ferry on the way to Liberty Island and of course New York iconic yellow cab taxis.

Unfortunately it was a short trip, and I wish I had more time to explore this magnificent city, but does not matter how much time you spend in New York, it is never enough.

Hope you like them, please share your thoughts and comments.

Tags: Buildings, Cityscapes, Flight, HDR, History, Long exposure, New York, Night, Outdoors, Panorama

Let me present this set of amazing imagery of the first sunset of year 2012 as seen from Cypress mountain.

I took Volvo S60 for a ride to the mountain, read a book, while enjoying this magnificent view. Enjoy.

Tags: Cityscapes, Nature, Night, Outdoors, Vancouver

When over a year ago Chad Hartin, my friend and ex co-worker, asked me to shoot his wedding this year, I was very nervous, but couldn’t say no to a very good friend of mine.

As special date was coming closer and closer, I was getting more and more nervous about the shoot. Preparation was very stressful

~What if I won’t be able to deliver quality they want?

~ What if my equipment fails and their wedding memories will be ruined?

I had all those thoughts on my mind.

Finally came the day of the shoot… deodorant all over body, as I was so nervous…here is the place where bride is getting ready…and off we go…

I must admit, first hour was very stressful for me: I wasn’t happy with lighting, I wasn’t happy with my Sigma 70-200 f2.8, and that made me even more nervous…

But at some point, something clicked… I became connected with the crowd, and started enjoying that special day… And all of the sudden, photos became much much better… At some point I checked last photo I took and I was impressed, happy and relieved at the same time – it goes OK…

By the end of 12hours day, I had just a bit over 3,500 photos on both cameras, offloaded them on my laptop, made 3 copies for backup and went home…

After much clean-ups, touch-ups and finish-ups, couple got their photos and were very happy with them. Below are some of the photos I’ve shot. Please leave your comments.

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Tags: Commercial, Outdoors, Wedding

During my trip to my mom’s this year, I stayed at the house of her boyfriend in Cortland in Ohio. Amazing little quiet city with endless country roads, many old buildings and amazing Mosquito Lake where I sailed for the first time.

Below are just some photos I took at the old barn right across the street from the house, merged into HDR (some images were merge of 5 images) and processed using HDR efex Pro.

I am still here for another day and will update the Flickr set with more photos. Enjoy!

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Tags: Buildings, Cleveland, Farm, HDR, Low angle, Ohio, Old buildings, Outdoors

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

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