up the stairs
External fire escape stairs always fascinated me, maybe because they are such an uncommon sight in european architecture. So when I was in the US I took lots of photos of early 20th century buildings with external metal staircases. This example is from Chicago city center.
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Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
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Lightroom : Initial tone and final crop.
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NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction.
Common view in the Chicago city center, the raised tracks of the "Loop".
Under the L
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Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
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Lightroom : Initial tone and final crop.
Photoshop: Clean up and sharpening.
NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction.
Starting to catchup after the holidays ended, so after 11 days of Scotland landscapes I am continuing to publish photos from last years trip to the USA. Here is the information desk on the main hall of Chicago's Symphony Center, a huge violin in the middle of the room is always a show piece.
inside the Chicago Symphony Center
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Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
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Lightroom : Initial tone and final crop.
Macphun AuroraHDR: HDR photomerge and toning
Day after the trip has ended and now I have a couple of thousand of photos to go through and sort out, so I thought I would show the last of the daillies I had prepared. This time from the Donald clan castle. Tomorrow the theme will change completely as I will rely of older photos I haven't published yet.
old MacDonald castle ruins
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Last day of the trip, and only had time for a quick stop at the Edradour distillery near Pitlochry, and then the long drive back to Edinburgh to catch the plane back home. Need to go back and do the tour and tasting.
welcome to the smallest distillery in Scotland
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Day 9 of this Highland trip and we are starting to go back down south, leaving the lovely island of Skye and heading to the picturesque Pitlochry for the night. Last day of the trip tomorrow, and we are coming home with great memories and more trip ideas for the future.
the bare castle of clan Mackinnon
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Travelling around the Highlands it seems that every day you find a new distillery, today it was the case for Skye's Talisker.
the sea that made Talisker
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Day 7, another day, another ferry, a couple more islands. Today we started in Lewis, drove down to Harris and took the ferry to Uig in the isle of Skye.
bench on top of Skye
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Day 6 of the road trip and we have left the Scottish mainland... Is it still mainland even though Great Britain is an island? Anyway, we are now in the Hebrides off the West coast of Scotland, on the beautiful Lewis island. Getting the ferry from Ullapool seems to be the best way to get here, as it makes for a great trip with gorgeous scenery.
flowers from ullapool
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Day 5 got us to our first taste of whisky at the Glenmorangie distillery just outside Tain, on our way from Inverness to the Highlands West coast north of Ullapool. Has as been the case the last few days, the day starts grey but the sun dominates the sky by lunch time.
where to inInbhir Nis
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