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I can't remember exactly how I found this amazing place in Tokyo. I kept track of some of the best night displays around the city. In winter, it is so bitterly cold there that there is not a lot to do outside, so many locations create beautiful light displays. This was my last night there, so I went to go and tick this one off my list. Much to my excited surprise, there was a lot of rain and snow, so everyone turned up with umbrellas. This one was a bit of a strange scene because they kept the Disney song of Beauty and the Beast on a loop. It was pretty cool until it became annoying! - Trey Ratcliff Click here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
How's this for a unique place?!? While in Germany, we made a day-trip to visit the Ritz-Carlton in Wolfsburg. It's an entirely unique location because it's embedded right in the middle of Volkswagen heaven. Germans love their cars (if you didn't know), and many people make a pilgrimage to come here to pick up their new cars. Volkswagen has these two huge towers where new cars are delivered every day to their owners. A tremendous robot goes shoots up the central cavity to pick up and deliver different cars as if in some tremendous vending machine. - Trey Ratcliff Click here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Hong Kong from the Peak on a Summer's Night If you want to see how I made this (and how you can too!), visit my HDR Tutorial. I hope it gives you some new tricks!I had a long day waking up at 5 AM to take a series of subways and trains up to Shenzen for some meetings. I had a Chinese VISA, which you don't need to get into Hong Kong, but I had to use to cross the official Chinese border after getting off the train. I didn't realize that it was a one-time use VISA, and I had to go to Shanghai the next day. This caused a lot of problems with the Chinese officials, a body of government with which I do not enjoy causing problems.Anyway, after I got back to Hong Kong after a day in Shenzen, I was hot and sweaty and in the sort of meeting clothes that aren't great for being hot and sweaty in. But, everything about Hong Kong was still awesome and I had too look hard for things to complain about. The sun was setting, and I made it up to The Peak just in time for a shot.This was a 5-exposure HDR shot at 100 ISO, and, of course, a sturdy tripod to get all the lights as steady as possible.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
