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10,000 Miles, Photos

Lunenburg panorama

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While touring the Lunenburg, Nova Scotia area we stopped on the opposite side of the harbor to enjoy the view of the town. The sky was a very monotone gray (you get what you get when traveling), but still the town looked amazingly colorful. I snapped a few fully zoomed in hand held shots for the record. After looking carefully at the shots I realized I could “stitch” them together into a panorama. I did the stitching manually in Photoshop and was amazed how well the photos lined up. I guess I make a good human tripod! 😉

This is the left most shot (the red structure is the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic).

Lunenburg Nova Scotia panorama

View the full panorama (stretch your browser window to expand the image).

Canon G11 stitching a scene.

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Quebec City contrast

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Still culling through the 10000 mile trip photos. Here are a couple more from Quebec City. The first shot caught my eye because of the striking contrast between the red and yellow. I cropped it a bit but otherwise it’s straight from the camera.

Quebec City color

This was a “chartreuse cap” shot, but Maggie was far away and it was too dark in the shadows to emphasize the cap. In black and white, though, I like it.

Quebec City black and white

Canon G11 seeing the contrast.

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Monkey face

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While traveling by train shooting photos through the windows is a crap shoot. Dirt and/or distortion, the motion, etc makes getting a decent shot difficult. But sometime it works. This shot was taken somewhere near Jasper, Alberta. The rock face looks monkey to me. (I converted it to black and white to lose some of the weird distortion from the window.)

Monkey face in the Rockies

Canon G11 seeing things in the stone.

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Somewhere near Lunenburg

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Being in Canada between the middle of October and the middle of November we saw quite a few cloudy days. Our trip to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia was no exception. It didn’t rain until nightfall so I was able to get quite a few cloudy day shots (set the white balance to “cloudy” on the G11 to boost the color saturation–though this works better on cloudless days [give it a try]). This was a little lobster fisherman’s cove somewhere near Lunenburg (we were being driven around so I’m not sure where the hell we were).

Lobster houses in cove near Lunenburg

Lobster houses in cove near Lunenburg

Lobster houses in cove near Lunenburg

Canon G11 lost in Nova Scotia.

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On the Canadian

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We were in fact physically on a train for 10000+ miles during our jaunt across Canada. Here are a few shots of the accommodations, etc., on Via Rail’s Canadian between Vancouver and Toronto.

Mags in the lounge car (the “caboose” on the Canadian). We spent many hours hanging out here chatting with fellow travelers, playing music, imbibing, watching the world go by…

Maggie in the lounge car

Next to the stairs up to the observation dome (180 degrees from the first shot in this series) are the time zone clocks. Canada has a lot of time zones and the train crosses all of them except for the odd duck, Newfoundland (clock on the top) which is 1/2 hour later than Atlantic time. 1/2 hour??

Tracking the time zones

Here’s a view of the dome car (must have been the morning because it was almost always full during the afternoon).

A view of the dome car

Eating was a pleasure on the Canadian! I’m talking fabulous food and great service! (All included in the ticket price.)

A view of the dining car

Traipsing up and back on the train means navigating these hallways in a kind of go with the flow way. That’s the door to the shower at the end (the hallway continues on with a quick right then left turn)–the “F” cabins are just this side of the shower.

Hallway to F

The bunks in cabin “F”. If you ride the Canadian, get your tickets early and reserve cabin “F”–each sleeper car has one and it’s the biggest double.

Maggie in the sleeping cabin

And the bunks were quite cozy.

Bunked out in the morning

Canon G11 riding the train.