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The Keyhole to the Old City This is the second photo I have posted from Montpellier. I have a lot more to process... it's a beautiful town! We were staying with a very nice older couple and had spent the evening in the city. Before leaving, we were not quite sure how to get back to their home. After asking, we got one of those very quick but complex set of directions. They are the sort of directions people give when they have lived somewhere their entire life... They mention landmarks that they are quite sure we have already seen and give dire warnings about going down the wrong fork in, oh, you know the place....so on and so forth... and then we were thrust out into the cruel city... not really having any sure way of finding our way home... but, I figured, as long as we were lost, we would take photos along the way. That is when I saw this... - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
A Dusk Walk in Montpellier We headed out on an evening walk with our wonderful hosts in Montpellier, France. They've done a few nice things to the city to minimize car traffic. There is a lot of public transport on light rails, and that tended to keep congestion down. You don't really realize it until you compare it to someplace like Milan or Daegu, but there just aren't a lot of cars driving around all the most interesting places. Taking the "back way" to dinner, we stopped at this perfect little intersection so I could take a quick photo. It was a highly recommended spot by my friend Jacques. This is the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Montpellier an elegant and unique cathedral that has a castle-like feel to the facade. Since I always get excited when I see a castle, this got a big thumbs up! - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
The Epic Cathedral I got this shot right before the Catholic Notre Dame police told me to take down the tripod. So I had to be fast... fast like the withdrawal method. With the wide-angle lens, people do get a little bit stretched, but I think that is okay in some circumstances. It doesn't really affect my enjoyment of the photo. And, since all the columns are leaning in and whatnot, if the people were normal sized and looked perfect while all the architecture around them was wonky, THAT might look strange. So, by keeping everything a little bit wonky, it kinda works. At least, this is what I am telling myself. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Walking to Dinner in Paris Today's photo is another one processed during the new HDR Video Tutorial. When I go to take photos of famous places, I follow sort of a star-pattern. Maybe it's more of a devilish inverted pentagram, but you get the idea... It's really hard to imagine how it would look from various compositions, so walking around it...getting closer and getting further... these can help give me idea. After outings like this, I like to find little restaurants where no one speaks English. Even though I speak a little French, I still have no idea what I'm ordering... Understanding the intricacies of French menus is a whole new level of confusion. But, it gives you a chance to look blankly at the waiter and say, "Surprise me!" - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Details in the inner cloister of Notre Dame I've continually asked people to do this, even though I rarely follow my own advice! It's great fun to take an image and re-crop it in many different ways. Sometimes you can take a single photo and make multiple versions of it. The other strategy is to take a bunch of different photos inside these areas, but that can require many lens changes... and I'm usually more interested in moving quickly from spot to spot throughout the day rather than spend time running through several lenses in each individual spot. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
My Next Trip to the Louvre You know how sometimes you go some place awesome and you think, "This is really cool, I think I'll probably come back some day." But then, sometimes, after the event, you start thinking that maybe you may not be able to make it back. You never really know I guess. Anyway, when I do go back to the Louvre in July, I'm going to spend a day inside sketching. I do like to sketch (I have a few on the About Me page), and this seems like a great place to do it. I wish I had a whole month in Paris... I'd try to go here once a week for a day of sketching. Maybe I should put this on my to do list... why not? - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
The Hallway to the Mona Lisa The Louvre has one hallway leading to another in an endless and awesome labyrinth of confusion. Maybe the most confusing thing is that there don't seem to be consistent floors. There you are on floor three, and then you take half a flight down, and its unclear if you are on 2 or 2.5. And then, you see a sign, and it explains in international language that you are indeed on the "yellow" floor, where in the last wing you were clearly not in a color-oriented floor but instead on 1.5. But, throughout the Louvre are huge signs that say "Mona Lisa" with an arrow pointing in one way or another. I'm sure the guards got SICK of people askin', "So where's this moner lisa gal?" - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Roman Baths in Nimes When I arrived in Nimes to visit my friend Fabien, one of the first places we visited were the ancient Roman baths. The ruins here are better preserved than those in Rome!Actually, I've heard that the best Roman ruins are along the northern coast of Libya. It will be a while before I can visit those, I'm afraid. I'll have to strike Libya off the list for a few years until things cool down. Oh... Egypt too. That's on the list but it has a little asterisk beside it. When you look at the bottom of the list it reads: "*currently in the midst of a violent revolution - consider other areas for photography, like, perhaps, Holland." - Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
The Love Locks in Paris There is a little bridge in Paris - maybe you have heard of it - where starcrossed lovers visit. They bring tiny padlocks with them. Sometimes they are decorated, and sometimes they are just fanciful. They affix them to the bridge that overlooks the Seine. Now, the bridge has thousands of these little love locks... It's all very nice, and perfect for some low f-stop photography, of course!- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

Details in the inner cloister of Notre Dame


I've continually asked people to do this, even though I rarely follow my own advice! It's great fun to take an image and re-crop it in many different ways. Sometimes you can take a single photo and make multiple versions of it. The other strategy is to take a bunch of different photos inside these areas, but that can require many lens changes... and I'm usually more interested in moving quickly from spot to spot throughout the day rather than spend time running through several lenses in each individual spot.

- Trey Ratcliff

Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
here at the Stuck in Customs blog." href="javascript:openLB(1289447487,'',XLarge,'',1024,591);">Details in the inner cloister of Notre Dame I've continually asked people to do this, even though I rarely follow my own advice! It's great fun to take an image and re-crop it in many different ways. Sometimes you can take a single photo and make multiple versions of it. The other strategy is to take a bunch of different photos inside these areas, but that can require many lens changes... and I'm usually more interested in moving quickly from spot to spot throughout the day rather than spend time running through several lenses in each individual spot. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.

Details in the inner cloister of Notre Dame


I've continually asked people to do this, even though I rarely follow my own advice! It's great fun to take an image and re-crop it in many different ways. Sometimes you can take a single photo and make multiple versions of it. The other strategy is to take a bunch of different photos inside these areas, but that can require many lens changes... and I'm usually more interested in moving quickly from spot to spot throughout the day rather than spend time running through several lenses in each individual spot.

- Trey Ratcliff

Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
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