Baltic Holidays - Day 9 - Estonia

Day 9 is in Talinn, Estonia.

I didn't know what to expect from Estonia, I've never heard much about it in the past but I came away from Talinn with fond memories.

We only dropped into old town really but it was such a beautiful place. The architecture was great and the atmosphere was so calm and peaceful. Even after the square had totally filled with tourists and the heavens opened up on us the atmosphere just became lively and more vibrant.

The above photo is amongst my favourites. It looks period, like a scene from a hundred years back or so.
If I applied some sepia tone and faked some aging it would be quite convincingly old I'd think.

Behind that woman was an amazing... cafe? it sold fresh pastries filled with meats and/or vegetables and various warmed alcoholic beverages, all served in awesome stoneware. I've got to say I really enjoyed drinking from the stoneware cup they served.
There's no photos inside the atmospheric eatery as it had no lighting aside from the occasional candle and the large stone ovens they were cooking with.

One of the earlier things we did was go inside this church.

This church had a ludicrously tall tower of which we paid so we could go up to the top.
At the top was a precarious wooden ledge propped up on the tiles of the sloped roof from the spire which was penned in with some chicken-wire'ish type fencing.

It was pretty sturdy, my boy loved it up there but it was a bit cramped for the number of people, the view however was brilliant.

We then headed on.
I believe the next church we visited was the oldest one in Talinn. This one we didn't climb to the top of but we did have a look around inside. Where it all looked... very old.

The following shots are from around the town.

The last two shots were taken from the tower in the middle of the town centre. You can see the weather in the background which, whilst we were stood at the top of a tower, on what appeared to be a large copper plate when, naturally, a few crashes of thunder and lightning filled the sky.
Of course we shortly thereafter made our way back to ground level.

The following shots were taken from the ship as and before we left.

The last shot was just where some light happened to get caught in the right way to shine a little rainbow across the rusty floor of the balcony I was on.

Well it caught my attention anyway.

I again set the camera up for a timelapse and this was what I got. Not quite as exciting as the last one.

Photograph of the week #051

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."

This weeks photo is another infra-red photo.

Coincidentally it was only last night I was wondering to myself.
"What would a rainbow look like in infra-red?"
Lo-and-behold! I arrive home from the office today to have a rainbow visible from my own back garden. I bumped the contrast a bit (on top of the usual post-processing) but now I know what a rainbow looks like in infra-red.

Now...
"I wonder what a million pounds would look like in infra-red!"



(Btw - I notice that it's only one week left now until the fifty second photograph-of-the-week, one years worth of weekly updates, give or take, I shall have to come up with something... either interesting, special or... different to celebrate. Stay tuned!"

Photograph of the week #021

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."

A photograph of one of my son's toys that was sitting on the floor in our lounge as the late afternoon sun beamed down through the garden window. It's quite fun to photograph toys laying around, they're often very colourfull and make for interesting shots, depending on the composition ofcourse.

I think my depth of field was probably a tad too shallow for this image but still.