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Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Friday May 04, 2012 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS5DMkII/ EF 17-40mm f4L at 17mm f11 1/400th sec ISO100. Gateway Arch-Jefferson National Expansion Memorial . The Saarinen Arch represents the westward expansion of America across the Mississippi and the optimism of the American...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Thursday May 03, 2012 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS40D/ EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS at 130mm f6.3 1/80th sec ISO200

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Sunday March 25, 2012 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS350D/Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD IF at 33mm f8 1/1000th sec ISO200

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Thursday March 15, 2012 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS350D/Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD IF at 43mm f2.8 1/1600th sec ISO100 For the amateur photographer, is there a lens which could be an ideal second lens after the kit lens? Something that covers wide to medium focal lengths,...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Wednesday February 15, 2012 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS5DMkII/EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS plus big pane of thick glass at 200mm f3.2 1/125th sec ISO800 Sometimes I wonder why I bring the bag of heavy lenses.  But then you end up finding a situation like this...and it really makes your...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Tuesday February 14, 2012 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS5DMkII/ EF 17-40mm f4L at 17mm f7.1 1/125th sec ISO800. Chicago Board of Trade Building.

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Sunday February 12, 2012 | By tsangc

      Canon EOS5DMkII/ EF 24-70mm f2.8L at 24mm f8.0 1/200th sec ISO200. North Columbus Drive Bridge, Chicago.

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Sunday February 05, 2012 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS5DMkII/ EF 24-70mm f2.8L at 24mm f5.0 1/25th sec ISO800. North Wabash Avenue, Chicago.

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Saturday February 04, 2012 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS5DMkII/ EF 24-70mm f2.8L at 60mm f8.0 1/100th sec ISO200. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. We really lucked out on the weekend we chose to visit Chicago, because that Friday morning, the sun was beautiful and the wind was quite calm....

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Friday February 03, 2012 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS5DMkII/ EF 24-70mm f2.8L at f5.0 1/8th sec ISO800. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. I think I had this propped up on a newspaper box or something, because it's sharp.

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Thursday February 02, 2012 | By tsangc

    Canon EOS5DMkII/ EF 24-70mm f2.8L at f2.8 1/25sec ISO800. Art Institute of Chicago. I have to stop assuming that the 1/focal length rule applies to a large sensor.  This image when magnified is actually blurry, not due to focus,...

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Wednesday February 01, 2012 | By tsangc

  Canon EOS5DMkII/ EF 24-70mm f2.8L at f2.8 1/60sec ISO800. Art Institute of Chicago.

Calum Tsang's Journal Pictures | Wednesday February 01, 2012 | By tsangc

      Canon EOS5DMkII/ EF 24-70mm f2.8L at f2.8 1/25sec ISO800 In November of 2011, Siobhan and I went to Chicago for a weekend trip.  We didn't go for very long, so I didn't send up daily updates or journal entries while we...

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...