Was going to make this a pure black and white shot too, but couldn’t get it to look right so instead I blended in a little of the red channel (and then reduced it again over the sandy area in the foreground to avoid that becoming too colourised). The colour version is in the San Francisco gallery.
Finally, I have updated the price chart for the Harbor release (phase 27) a few weeks back, and the master plan too. I have also stretched the graph a little horizontally since we are getting quite a few entries now!
While up at Crissy Field last weekend I also saw a GoCar. Unlike other vehicles of this type, the GoCars are equipped with GPS and a computerised tour guide. This was was dashing around the Fort Point area.
Inspired a little by Dave Beckerman’s photo blog, I am presenting a black & white shot of the Golden Gate bridge. The shot was originally taken in colour, and then using the magic of Photoshop converted to a black & white (using the technique described in Russell Brown’s The Photoshop Show (a free copy of which was included with the Photoshop CS package I bought a while back).
Last Saturday was a pretty clear day in the bay area, so I spent the latter portion of the morning at Crissy Field where I took a number of photos of the bridge. This is one of my favourites from the collection, and it is added to the San Francisco gallery too. I will probably put more in there later this week, as well as some of the Palace of Fine Arts that I took the same day.
Makuhari is home to a number of high tech companies, as well as the Nippon Convention Centre (Makuhari Messe). In amongst the modern skyscrapers are high level walkways and garden areas, all with hedges of Japanese rhododendron. All of these hedge rows were in bloom while I was there on the last day of my recent trip to Japan, and I managed to capture a few macro shots, including this one, using the S500‘s macro feature.
What more can really be said about this. It is a statue of Godzilla in the region of Tokyo known as Ginza.
The Shinkansen (bullet train) we took from Tokyo to Nagoya pulls into the station in Tokyo. This was only the second time I had been on one of these trains. Since we were not boarding at its origin, it was already pretty full, but we had assigned seats in one of the reserved seating cars. As with most of these high speed trains, the trip was uneventful. The ride is exceptionally smooth, and unless you look out of the window you’d never know you were on a moving train!
Inside, the seats are comfortable and have a surprising amount of legroom – more than the economy class on any aircraft I’ve ever been on. As with an aircraft seat, they recline and there is a tray table mounted on the seat in front of you. A food service cart passes through the train offering anything from beer and snacks to a full bento box meal.
This building looked as though it had just been reconstructed. All the wood looked new, and the structure was perfect. At the same time, the construction techniques that had been used looked to be original. Inside, as you can see in the photo, was a very large drum.
In the same complex as the Grand Intercontinental Hotel and the shopping mall is the Korea Trade Centre building – another building with unique architecture.
