08. September 2012 · Comments Off on Plane Home – Las Vegas · Categories: Image a Day · Tags: , , ,

Wow, what a week, today we left Las Vegas and came home, but not before heading out to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, and spending some time walking round Caesars Palace.  Photoshop World was a total blast, fantastic training with some amazing professional photographers but I guess it had to end eventually.

I have a load of images that I can post from the event and from walking round Las Vegas, but unfortunately tonight my new Macbook Pro laptop stopped working.  I’m pretty worried about this as it has all my images from the week on it.  Yes I know, I should back up regularly and I normally do, but it’s been so busy over the last few days, I didn’t get the chance (or just forgot). So tomorrow I’m of to the Apple Store to find out why my week old new computer no longer works (you will probably here me shouting at them).  My big concern is I don’t lose the images on the hard disk.

So when I got home (thanks Lisa for coming out and picking us up) I had to reinstall some apps on my old (clean) computer and find an image to post from my camera.  By the time I got my old mac all set up I was (quite frankly) too tied to post process a great pic so I selected a shot from the Las Vegas airport.

We got the the terminal pretty early and I got a great seat at the gate while we waited to board.  But as we were there early our plane hadn’t even arrived.  Eventually it arrived and I shot the image below.  I captured this through glass, and the two white lines (very faint) on either side of the plane are glass reflections.

I processed the image relatively quickly, so this is not one of my best, but I needed to post so it made the grade for today’s pic.  Hopefully I’ll get some good news tomorrow and get my new computer back online.

Carter and Master Chief couldn’t resist one last attempt at winning big in Vegas, although I think they may be trying to cheat.

14. July 2012 · Comments Off on Airport Delay – SeaTac Airport · Categories: Image a Day · Tags: , ,

So here I am sitting at SeaTac airport waiting to fly out to Maui.  We got here a little early (Lisa never likes to have to rush when we’re here – which is probably a good thing) so I decided to capture a picture at the airport for today.  So while the kids are tucking into some lunch at the food court, I walked off looking for something to shoot.

While wandering down Terminal B I looked out the windows and watched these guys, working on a plane.  A number of passengers who were taking the plane looked on too, all of them I would guess feeling a combination of frustration because they were delayed, and fear as the last thing you want to see is someone working on your plane before you take off!

So I walk up to the window all cocky and take a few shots.  Smile at the delayed passengers and walk off to find Lisa.  All the time I’m thinking, bloody hell glad that’s not me, but it will make an interesting picture.  So I find Lisa and we walk to the gate.  I get 10 minutes to process the image and post it, write something really quick saying “I’m posting now as I’m about to get on my plane – I’ll write more tonight when I land and reach my hotel…” and go to the gate to get on the plane.

Guess what?  Now we are delayed for about an hour.  I mean talk about bad karma!  I shouldn’t have laughed at the other passengers.  At least there’s nobody with wrenches standing on our plane – yet!

So I walked back to my chair and typed this up.  Hopefully we will get away this evening and get to Maui.  If not expect a series of images of the airport, as I’m not leaving.  Just think of me as Tom Hanks in “The Terminal” – I’m moving in…

While waiting for our flight at SeaTac airport the guys couldn’t resist a Wendy’s Baconator!