Photo taken on the back porch outside the second-floor tasting room at Sharp Rock Vineyards on a very hot and bright day in July. I loved the wood tones inside the porch. The empty old porch was to my eye beautiful and contrasty as it as lit by the sunlight washing in through the open side that overlooked vineyards, but the bright sunlight glare from outside made getting the right exposure a challenge.
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Sep 11, 2010 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: 150 wineries in 150 days, 150 wineries tour, antique, bright, deck, furniture, HDR, high dynamic range, IMP, In My Pocket, Land & Air, Nikon, photo, Photo Tourist, Photomatix, PhotoMatix Pro, Photoshop, PhotoTourist, porch, Ratcliff, shade, Sharp Rock, Sharp Rock Vineyards, Sharp Rock Winery, Sharp Rock Winery and Vineyard, Stuckincustoms, sunny, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, tour, tourism, tourist, Trey Ratcliff, tutorial, VA, VA Wine, VAWineInMyPocket, VAWineInMyPocket.com, view, vineyard, Virginia, Virginia Wine, Virginia Wine In My Pocket, wineries, winery, wood | Leave A Comment »
Every Fourth of July Nancy and I invite a group of friends and neighbors to cruise on a deckboat on Lake Thoreau at sunset, to watch the evening’s impromptu celebrations of Independence Day. Enormous, professional-grade starburst shells go off overhead as bottle rockets inscribe arcs over or between the boats. The whole thing is spontaneous and unplanned. Our music was a mashup of Sousa marches and patriotic country. This is America’s birthday, lake-style.
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Jul 10, 2010 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: 2010, 4 July, 4 July 2010, 4th, 4th of July, 7-4-2010, 7/4/2010, barge, boat, Boating, boats, Celebration, Celebration Fun, countryside, deck boat, Deckboat, fireworks, Fourth of July, geotagged, HDR, Independence Day, July, July 4, July4th2010, lake, Lake Thoreau, Lakewinds, Land & Air, landscape, lights, national day, party, party barge, Patriotic, People, photo, Photo Tourist, PhotoTourist, Reston, South Lakes, summer, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, Thoreau, tourism, tourist, United States, US, USA, VA, view, views, Virginia | Leave A Comment »
High Definition Images (HDR) images taken during a tour group visit to Quirigua Archaeological Park in central Guatemala. Quirigua is home of one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Mayan stelae and zoomorphs of the Mayan classic period, displayed under thatched roofs in beautifully manicured gardens.
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Mar 30, 2010 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: archaeology, Caribbean, classic, cruise, forest, garden, grass, Guatemala, HDR, high dynamic range, Holland America, Holland America Line, jungle, Land & Air, lawn, Maya, Mayan, not_uw, photo, Photo Tourist, PhotoTourist, pole, post, Quirigua, Quirigua Archaeological Park, Quirigua Park, Ryndam, stairs, stelae, stele, steps, temple, thatch, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, tour, tourism, tourist, tourists, tree, trees, western Caribbean, zoomorph | Leave A Comment »
