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Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Saturday December 31, 2011 | By tsangc

    Day 8 The last time I was in Rome, I didn't get to take a tour of the Vatican Museum or the Sistine Chapel.  I got there quite late in the day and while I enjoyed taking pictures of St. Peter's Basilica at dusk, I missed...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Saturday December 31, 2011 | By tsangc

  Day 7 Bologna isn't much of a tourist town, but perhaps this simple nature is its best characteristic. Its streets are lined with porticos that cover the sidewalks and leave the buildings with no setback from the street itself.  ...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Friday December 30, 2011 | By tsangc

  Day 6 Siobhan has organized a trip with Emilian Land Tour, a company which specializes in small tours of the region Emilia-Romagna, highlighting local food production.  We start by leaving Bologna into the countryside, small towns interspersed...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Wednesday December 28, 2011 | By tsangc

    Day 5 Leaving the Bolzano, our train slips it way through the valley surrounded by mountains, the bright sun streaking into through the windows.  Outside, the neat rows of vineyards blur into an intricate pattern....

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Tuesday December 27, 2011 | By tsangc

Day 4   Bolzano is nestled in the mountains surrounding it. When we woke up this morning, we could see from the windows around the hotel that again, like Innsbruck, the mountain range formed a backdrop behind the spires of the city. Outside,...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Monday December 26, 2011 | By tsangc

  Day 3 I write this as the Austrian landscape speeds by.  This morning we leave Vienna and head west towards Bolzano, Italy.  The train, RailJet 162, is headed at 190km/h towards Zurich, midway of which we'll get off at...

Calum Tsang's Journal General | Sunday December 25, 2011 | By tsangc

  Day 2: Vienna feels like the setting of a cold war spy movie, with its windy old street passages, lined with undecipherable German signs and police sirens in the background.  It nearly escaped me that the Vienna subway stood in for...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Sunday December 25, 2011 | By tsangc

    Day 1 Vienna's airport is like a vestige of the late seventies:  Its big digital clocks flapping from minute to minute, clear signs in modern sans serif fonts backed on bright yellow glass.  I didn't actually remember the...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Saturday November 05, 2011 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS5DMkII/ EF 100mm F2.8 L IS USM Macro at f8 1/160sec ISO400. This was shot with a borrowed EF100mm Hybrid IS macro.  This is a perfect lens for handheld shooting of really small objects.  These hens and chicks are about the...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Saturday November 05, 2011 | By tsangc

    Canon EOS5DMkII/EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS at 150mm f5 1/800th sec ISO400

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Thursday August 04, 2011 | By tsangc

    Canon EOS5D/EF 24-70mm f2.8L at 52mm f8 1/640th sec ISO400