Vacation Albums are up!

[etrigan63]

OK troops, my Vacation albums are up on Flickr for your enjoyment. I have teased you with some shots but now they are all in place.

Links:
Las Vegas Album
Grand Canyon Album
Sedona Album

I have everything from stitched panoramas to HDR images to B&W shots.

Here are some highlights:

As always C&C is welcome and please leave comments in the Flickr albums as well.

 

[Steen]

Wow.
I mean, WOW.
Especially the landscape in the middle, it's surreal, some kind of HDR ?
/Steen

 

[jonoslack]

Well, I'd like to comment and to criticise.
The photos look wonderful - not always keen on HDR, but otherwise great - congratulations.

But why oh why show them on Flickr - they look horrid with the white background and all that different coloured writing - and if you expand them you then have to go back and forth.

When there are sites like Zenfolio with wonderful presentation, I just find it hard to understand why everyone seems to be using Flickr?

Or am I missing some configuration thing? Or is it just me?

 

[etrigan63]

Steen: Yes, that particular shot is HDR. I have a couple or three of them in the set. The Canyon is quite breathtaking. Photos cannot convey the immensity of the place. In that photo you can see a sub-canyon in the bottom of the greater one. That sub-canyon is deeper than the Empire State Building is tall!

Jono: I chose Flickr as it provides a mechanism for critiquing built-in that Zenfolio lacks. Yes, the colors & layout are not optimal but I get a level of social interaction there that is not available on ZF and Smugmug wants too much money.

 

[etrigan63]

Plus, the best way to view pics on Flickr is use the slideshow.

 

[jonoslack]

Plus, the best way to view pics on Flickr is use the slideshow.

Ah - yes - that's certainly an improvement.

 

[etrigan63]

Jono, are you using Firefox on your system? If so, check out Piclens (http://www.piclens.com) a very cool free extension that works with a bunch of different galleries to make image viewing a consistent experience. I love the "3D image/video wall" interface.