Stockholm Photoblog

Austria’s mountain resort region of Zell am See: Eurotrip Day 03

This shot overlooks the town of Kaprun, the last stop of Easy Company before heading home and where they shot BoB (according to this flickr photo set).

This is basically where all the paragliders hang out to ride thermals, and where I paraglided the next day. If you hover over the photo to blow it up you can see there is a dam about 2/3 up the mountain in the center gorge, which I also visited the next day.

I kinda flubbed on this one and didn’t take enough photos to make a good panorama, and since I’m not a photoshop artist I just decided to leave it unfinished like this.

For reasons unknown to me, Zell am See is like the Islamic vacation capital of the world, and literally 50% of all women there are middle eastern tourists wearing burkas. It’s not something I got used to and was unsettling to see such oppression of women everywhere I went.

Turning the camera sideways is pretty much the height of my creativity when it comes to photography.

Paragliders high over Kaprun.

These next two panoramas are composites where you can see the stages of a hanglider and paraglider taking off.

It took a while to figure out how to do this in photoshop but I found that instead of trying to selectively crop each picture beforehand, just autoalign the layers and manually delete the portions of each layer that covers the paraglider in other layers, and then autoblend the layers after.

Yes, chicken nuggets! The same thing I had been eating every day for months I found I could order for $$$ in a restaurant, so obviously I was forced to do it.

I was amazed at how good this next shot turned out from the tram’s window. It’s actually two photos merged together, which is doubly lucky given that we were moving.

After I got back to the hotel (early afternoon), I took a nap and woke up at dinner time. I went to a restaurant and afterwords walked around with my tripod and took pictures downtown while everyone gave me stares.