I was playing around with a few more images from our Europe trip today, and came across this little beauty. This image is a composite of 6 images stitched together to create one 180 degree panoramic display.

When I look at this image, I can still hear the chatter of people passing by, smell the cappuccino from a nearby cafe, and feel the sun warming my face.

Happy Sunday Everyone!

Back in September, Grit and I went on a little getaway to Europe for a few weeks to visit her friends and family. It was my very first time in Germany (unless you count the two hours I spent in the Frankfurt airport on the way to Italy a few years ago when I worked as a photographer on Cruise Ships). I absolutely LOVED it! The people, the scenery, the….Oktoberfest. ;) I will be posting several more photos when I get the chance, but I thought I would post some of my favorite “Fine Art” images I have worked on so far. For the Photographers reading this (and all others that wish to know), I have processed all of the images in this series with a custom preset I created in Lightroom. They were only brought into Photoshop to sharpen for web.

Also, since most of these images were shot in Venice, Italy on the day I proposed to Grit, I added a little video at the bottom of this post. This was literally a minute or two after proposing to Grit on the Gondola. The ring was a prototype (the real one wasn’t going to be finished until after we got back home), so the size was a bit small. Nevertheless Grit wore it on her pinky almost the entire trip! :)

So… I’m not even going to check when the last time I blogged was…

I had a blast the last 2 weeks travelling around Germany, Austria and Italy and there are SO many images I am going to share with you VERY soon! For now, I wanted to to give you all a taste of the next blog posts coming up in the days to come.

I hope you can feel these images.

For those of you that don’t know the story behind this image yet (below), I can’t WAIT to tell you!! :)

…as for the title of this blog post… I’ve been listening to Great Big Sea for the last few hours straight… I think my mind has temporarily been east-coast-transplanted ;)