Washington DC Part 2

Today I'm posting a few more photos I took when I was in Washington DC.

On April 8th last year I posted my first lot of photos of my trip to Washington DC. It's a impressive place full of interesting places  to see, visit and photograph.

I found the stormy weather that we had, while we were there, added to the mood of the photos. 

The capital building was one the most photographic building that I saw in the US and well worth a visit. 

US Capital Building

US Capital Building

One of the many monuments

Natural History Museum

Enjoy and I'll see you next week!

VFL Football

On the 19th of April this year I went to the VFL game between Collingwood and Coburg at Victoria Park in Collingwood. I photographed the 2nd half of the game as I got these later than I hoped.

Here are a few of the photos I took of the game.

Enjoy and I'll see you next week!

Australian Ice Hockey League

The Australian Ice Hockey league kicked off again last week for season 2014.

Ice Hockey is a great sport to not only go and watch but photograph.

So, today I'm posting a few photos from an AHIL game I photographed during the 2013 season.

These are photos from the Melbourne Ice and Sydney Ice Dogs game at the Medibank IceHouse in Docklands, Melbourne.

Enjoy and I'll see you next!

Osprey

Today I'm posting a Photo I took at Christmas on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. There's a family of Osprey's that live along the stretch of beach I swim at. This is one of the shots I got of the Osprey as it headed out over the ocean searching for its food.

Enjoy and I'll see you next week!

Waratah Bay

Today's blog is a Panorama I took at Waratha Bay in the east of Victoria. 

I enjoy taking landscape photography especially when the clouds are thick and abundant thye can really make a photo.

I took this pano while we were walking along the wind swept beach.

The Beach at Waratah Bay

Enjoy and I'll see you next week!

Baby Elephant

This week I'm blogging a photo I took a couple of years ago and completley forgot about.  

In 2010 I went to the Melbourne Zoo and spent the day photographing the vast array of animals and reptiles. I was at the elephant enclosure just in time to see the new baby elephant come out for an hour.

I snapped a heap of photos of the baby elephant, which I completely forgot about until I was looking for another photo and found them.

This is one of my favourite shots.

Enjoy and I'll see you next week!

Japan Panorama for my 100th post

It's my 100th post on 'The Smoking Camera' Blog today!

Time has flown since I started the blog 3 years ago. Since the first blog Ive had nearly 3500 visitors from dozens of countries across the globe, with the most hits coming from the USA.

It's been a fun journey to get to this stage now hopefully I can get to 200 posts....

For my 100th blog, I'm posting a panorama of my favourite place...Tokyo.

 This was shot from our hotel room at the Park Hotel on the 38th floor. It was difficult to do as anyone who has photographed through thick glass will tell you.

I think I photographed this panorama about 20 times (there's nothing worse than getting home and finding out it did work) and then stitched it in Adobe Photoshop.

I now do all my basic photo editing in Adobe Lightroom, once I ran it through that I then brought it back to Photoshop for a couple of final touches and presto!

The panorama features the iconic Tokyo Tower (red tower) and behind it in the distance is Mt Fuji.

Enjoy and I'll see you next week!