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The Wicked Show I was in a hangout the other night with Chee Chew from Google, and, somehow, the topic of musicals came up. It turns out that he's a huge fan of musicals and he saw Wicked here in London also. I would have never taken that guy for a big fan of musicals... and I suppose there are many lurker-musical fans out there... are you one of them? It's okay... you can admit it... you're amongst friends here :) - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Walking Through London There are many nice things to see and do all over... It's one of those cities that when you're doing one thing -- you're pretty sure that you are missing something else! And it's that same way with this fleeting sunset... the light was great almost everywhere... and I did run around quite a bit to see how many compositions I could squeeze into the fleeting time. My friend Scott Kublin was with me, running up and down the other side of the street while I was on this one. - Trey Ratcliff Read the rest of this entry here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
The People Mover This is London, right? I'm embarrassed to say I can't quite remember. I processed and edited this photo as part of a bigger trip. I'm too lazy to check the EXIF and cross-reference the dates... even though that would have taken less time than writing this sentence. But, instead, I'm saying it like this to let you know that sometimes my memory fades a bit. Some spots I remember perfect perfect perfect perfect... and others fade away and drift into others. I'm not sure why memory works like this... why there are some things that are perfect and some that are fuzzy. The way that memory works in this incomplete way is interesting to me. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Grey London The two greyest cities I have been to are London and Vancouver. But the architecture is so different in both. I prefer bright and colorful architecture, especially in those environs. Sometimes with grey/white/silver/black buildings, I feel like I'm in some futuristic dystopian techno movie... something like... oh Equilibrium. Have you all seen that one? Anyway, this is kind of a cool building, despite it's greyness! There is that greenish element in the glass (not sure what it is) that gives it those interesting aqua tones... - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
A Fun Night in London OMG... making 365 new photos a year is very difficult! I've been doing it for the past few years, and I hope I haven't made it look to easy... I promise I'm not pulling a "Scotty in Engineering", where I'm complaining about something that is actually pretty easy. But sometimes, I yell, "The ship's breaking apart captain!" -- and I really mean it! hehe... My next task with all these London photos is to go back and geotag the dang things. It's never-ending... the to-do list, you know. I wish we were about 3+ years down the road when there was some smart-web-service that could look at the composition and then auto-geotag. BTW, if you're into digital imaging and computer science, there is a million dollar business for you... extrapolate the location information and auto-geo-tag. People like me would love you and pay decent money for the service! :) - Trey Ratcliff Read more and see a new video here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Dead Tired in London I really over-scheduled myself on this day. It started out early and was 100% full of photography activity! I don't remember having a spare 5 minutes just to sit there and zone out.... I do try to plan a little zone-out time, but this day I didn't. I kind of build my day like I was playing an RTS game, making sure I never had any idle workers.After I got off the tube at Marylebone station, I exited into this scene. This is the little area I crossed every day to get from the tube into my hotel. It looked so perfect in the rain that I just had to take a photo...even though I was dog-tired.- Trey Ratcliff Read more, including a discussion on the difference between nonprofit and noncommercial, here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
The Wheel Remember that great London PhotoWalk? I'm still processing photos from that event! There was one point where I climbed up on a low wall to get a shot of the ferris wheel. Getting up on the wall wasn't too tough -- the tough part was setting up the three legs of my tripod so they were pretty stable.It's been great fun (and kind of strange) to have hundreds of people also processing these images and posting them in the forums. I get to see many of interpretations of this same scene. There are so many different versions of the colors, the composition, the sharpness, and even more. This is very interesting to see how people take the same source files and make something that is interesting to them. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at stuckincustoms.com.
The Chocolate Shoppe Some regulars know that I'm into gourmet chocolate. This is both good and bad because sometimes when I show up to events, people bring me chocolate from all over the world! And then, I get back to my hotel room, and I'm heavily laden with chocolate... and then the post-midnight haze sets in while I'm editing photos, and I start thinking, "Hmmm, I wonder what that 37% cocoa from Liberia tastes like..." And then it's a very slippery slope.Here's another that I processed the other evening while people looked on... This is a chocolate shop in London that I found by accident called the Rabot Estate. I bought a lot of stuff here, and it didn't last very long. I also had a very nice cup of drinking chocolate while flipping through some chocolate books in the back. I found out there is a chocolate resort somewhere in the Caribbean.. it's like a regular Caribbean resort that also happens to be on a cocoa plantation. SIGN ME UP. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Big Ben at Dusk Halfway through the PhotoWalk in London, we stopped here at Big Ben to get a shot. It's a little tough for me sometimes to do this while on a PhotoWalk because I can't fully focus on the photography. I have to talk, explain, converse, answer questions, and the like. Don't get me wrong... I love all that stuff. But I do find it hard to fully focus on the photography side of the evening!- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

The Wheel


Remember that great London PhotoWalk? I'm still processing photos from that event! There was one point where I climbed up on a low wall to get a shot of the ferris wheel. Getting up on the wall wasn't too tough -- the tough part was setting up the three legs of my tripod so they were pretty stable.

It's been great fun (and kind of strange) to have hundreds of people also processing these images and posting them in the forums. I get to see many of interpretations of this same scene. There are so many different versions of the colors, the composition, the sharpness, and even more. This is very interesting to see how people take the same source files and make something that is interesting to them.

- Trey Ratcliff

Read more here at stuckincustoms.com.
London PhotoWalk? I'm still processing photos from that event! There was one point where I climbed up on a low wall to get a shot of the ferris wheel. Getting up on the wall wasn't too tough -- the tough part was setting up the three legs of my tripod so they were pretty stable.

It's been great fun (and kind of strange) to have hundreds of people also processing these images and posting them in the forums. I get to see many of interpretations of this same scene. There are so many different versions of the colors, the composition, the sharpness, and even more. This is very interesting to see how people take the same source files and make something that is interesting to them.

- Trey Ratcliff

Read more here at stuckincustoms.com." href="javascript:openLB(1289062355,'',XLarge,'',512,768);">The Wheel Remember that great London PhotoWalk? I'm still processing photos from that event! There was one point where I climbed up on a low wall to get a shot of the ferris wheel. Getting up on the wall wasn't too tough -- the tough part was setting up the three legs of my tripod so they were pretty stable.It's been great fun (and kind of strange) to have hundreds of people also processing these images and posting them in the forums. I get to see many of interpretations of this same scene. There are so many different versions of the colors, the composition, the sharpness, and even more. This is very interesting to see how people take the same source files and make something that is interesting to them. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at stuckincustoms.com.

The Wheel


Remember that great London PhotoWalk? I'm still processing photos from that event! There was one point where I climbed up on a low wall to get a shot of the ferris wheel. Getting up on the wall wasn't too tough -- the tough part was setting up the three legs of my tripod so they were pretty stable.

It's been great fun (and kind of strange) to have hundreds of people also processing these images and posting them in the forums. I get to see many of interpretations of this same scene. There are so many different versions of the colors, the composition, the sharpness, and even more. This is very interesting to see how people take the same source files and make something that is interesting to them.

- Trey Ratcliff

Read more here at stuckincustoms.com.
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