Posts in Category: Rebel XT
Photos taken with my Canon Digital Rebel XT. It’s an earlier model, 8 MP, but I love it. The newer models take HD video too! I’m hoping to upgrade once they add automatic GPS tagging to the photos.
Pelican taking off near Merritt Island
I was rollerblading along the bridge/overpass/park connecting Florida to Merritt Island (they’ve kinda got a park/fishing pier along the bottom edge of part of the bridge) and saw this Pelican. I caught him a few times, but I think this was one of the better shots. I’ve got a nice one of him(?) standing still, but it’s boring compared to this one.
That’s at 1/400th of a second, but we can still see the motion at the tips of his wings.
Downtown Detroit Christmas Trees
Some pictures of the Christmas trees in downtown Detroit. I believe I’m standing where the old Hudson’s building used to be located.
This was a 13 second exposure at f/14 with my 18-55mm lens at 18mm.
The Sunset from Belle Isle at Sunset Park
The sunset from tip of Sunset Park on Belle Isle. I posted a similar photo (but much closer) photo last October (maybe from the same day) you can see the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Canada. I was just there in the evening a few weeks ago and the sun goes no where near the Renaissance Center when it sets.
The Launch of Space Shuttle STS-131
This was my causeway view of the April 2011 launch of STS-131. It was very exciting! The causeway is the best view you can publicly purchase* tickets to watch a launch from, you can actually see the shuttle while it’s on the launch pad. From the Visitor’s Center you can’t actually see the launch because the trees are in the way, you can see it seconds after it clears the tree line. We couldn’t see the shuttle until a bus took us to the causeway and as you stepped off the bus people were gasping when they could see the shuttle on the launch pad! It was (very) far away, but it was beautiful!!!
This was one of the last few launches and it was amazing, I really wished I’d made it down there to more launches. It was a great experience. I’m so glad that I went on that trip!
* After you got in the lottery via e-mail you get to be in the “virtual waiting room” for ticket purchase day, you then had to win another lottery get actually get picked out of that room. FYI, they didn’t charge more for tickets on launch day, they were just harder to get (you did pay more for the causeway, but that’s because you had to get on a separate chartered bus to get out to that location). Private tour groups had some tickets but they charged more and it seemed a little more complicated getting around.
Baskets on an Island in Egypt
This is on a tiny island near Aswan, on The Nile at the south end of Egypt. I think we did a small tour on a boat and then had lunch on the island. The water is the Nile and that’s facing west, so that makes all the sand in the background the Sahara Desert.
Under the Ambassador Bridge
This was taken on the Diamond Jack boat tour of the Detroit River. I think this was the tour from Wyandotte, it goes just a little north of the Ambassador Bridge and then turns back around.
Diamond Jack has great boat trips on the Detroit River. I think they run from Memorial Day to Labor Day on Thursdays to Sunday. The ones from downtown Detroit start at Rivard Plaza right by the carousel and the ones from Wyandotte start at the Bishop park. I think they do two a day at each location; the Detroit ones are the same, the Wyandotte has a north tour and a south tour.
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Christmas house on Woodward Ave.
Just an interesting building I saw on Noel Night in Detroit last year. I’m pretty sure this was on Woodward Ave. right across (nearby?) the Detroit Institute of Arts.
ISO 200, f/3.5 at 1/2 second.
The Carousel at Greenfield Village Holiday Nights
This is the old carousel at night during the Christmas Holiday Nights festival. It got very cold, but they had caroling, fireworks and all sorts of other stuff going one.
I think it’s looking like a lot of motion for a 1/4 second exposure…
A house or B&B in Canada
I love the house and all the colored wooden chairs. With the green background, I like how it all “fits” together.
This is own the Canadian side of the Detroit river, we’re south of Windsor so I’m not certain exactly where. Maybe down by Amherstberg…
I forgot to mention, this was on one of the Diamond Jack river tours (they have a dock in Detroit and another in Wyandotte) this was one of the two different tours from Wyandotte; if you’ve never done any of these tours, your missing out!
Detroit River Sunset
Love all the oranges and that you can see the birds, the contrails, the Ambassador Bridge and a tiny bit of Windsor, Canada…
I’m thinking that I took this from Belle Isle (probably at Sunset Park), but I’m not 100% certain (wish I had the GPS in my digital SLR).