This hotel in central London was cool. I took this photo of the entry way during a visit to this spot. Side note, the city of London was very enjoyable place that I’d recommend to everyone.
Overwhelming
The colors, textures and patterns on this room are just overwhelming. This is the main lobby of a Carnival cruise ship. Sorry I don’t remember which one.
Hospital Lobby
This is the Pripyat Hospital lobby inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. This hospital received and cared for the firefighters who responded to the nuclear reactor disaster when the Chernobyl accident occurred. All of the firefighters died of radiation exposure.
Seafire Christmas
I took this photo last December while staying at the Seafire Resort in Grand Cayman. You can’t see it, but just to the right (off the photo), they had a life size gingerbread house setup that you could walk into to get holiday favored and themed cocktail.
Grand Palladium
We stayed at this resort north of Cancun recently. The resort is new, it just opened last October. That meant that they were still working on some final touches and punch list items. They also have big plans to expand the complex to a maximum of over 3,000 guest rooms. It has a great beach unlike most of the resorts in this part of Mexico. Anyway, we enjoyed it and had a great time with our group (some family and friends).
I took this photo one evening after dinner just outside the main lobby. There are three of these weird sculptures in a row with small ponds surrounding them.
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Vista Lobby
How about this resort lobby? Admittedly, this isn’t a typical hotel lobby. In fact, it isn’t a “hotel” at all. This is the lobby of the Carnival Vista cruise ship, which is a floating hotel/resort. We were on its maiden voyage and I took this on day two. Pretty cool spot!!
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Splendor Lobby
I have another cruise ship photo for you today. I realize I posted one for you on April 25, but I don’t care. This is the lobby of Carnival Splendor at around 530am in the morning…. You know why I took this photo at that time of the day. Like many of the Carnival cruise ships, this one has decoration that is a little over the top. We had a few beverages at this bar during our trip. Good times.
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Renaissance Hotel Lobby
Today’s photo is from the inside of the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. The hotel was very nice and allowed us run of the place. We photographed the lobby, upstairs, bar, and from within a hotel room. I’ll probably post the photo from the hotel room later. It was a unique view out of the hotel room window. That’s for another day.
Check out the video below to see a behind the camera look at how I captured this image.
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Hotel lobby
Breeze Bar
Tonight’s post is from our last trip on the Carnival Breeze. I loved the lobby area within the ship. Typical of my cruise ritual, I got up at 5am on a couple of days to photograph the ship when everyone else is asleep. That’s how I get these great photos without any crew or tourist in the way.
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Carnival Breeze
Bar Stools
Sorry for my absence. Life has gotten in the way. Anyway, here is a quick post for you tonight. I took this on the Carnival Breeze at the lobby bar. Have a great weekend.
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Breeze Bar
Tonight’s blog post is from the lobby of the Carnival Breeze cruise ship. We had a wonderful time on this cruise a while back. What a wonderful ship. All the new Carnival ships are designed with a milder interior design vs. the older ships, which had a louder style. I like both styles, but the new ships are in line with today’s taste.
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NYC Public Library
I’ve been to NYC a few times in the past and each time my hotel was about a block from this amazing building. Every time I went, I said that I have to get inside and just ran out of time. So on the last trip, MJ and I took a few hours out of our day to walk around this great facility. Of the dozens, maybe hundreds of people in the building with us, I had to have been the only person who entered just to photograph the architecture. What a great location!!! And it’s free to enter. Good times.
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CMU - College of Fine Arts
Back in January, Brad, Dave and I complete a photo walk around CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. What a great college campus. We took a number of photos inside some of their amazing buildings. This is the lobby of their College of Fine Arts. How cool is this place? My opinion…. Super Cool.
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YO Ranch
Outside of Austin Texas in a small town, is a place called the YO Ranch. This is the lobby of this unique hotel. My favorite parts of the hotel lobby are the chandeliers. They are made up of dozens of cattle brands of all shapes and sizes. I don’t know if they were made for the lights or if the cattle brands were all collected to be used for the lights. Anyway, I thought they were interesting.
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Dream Lobby Bar
Thursday!!!! I’m tired, but I have a few more work days left this week. So I am keeping the post short and sweet tonight.
Tonight’s photo is of the Carnival Dream Lobby and Lobby Bar at 330am in the morning. I am the only idiot who gets up extremely early on vacation to photograph ships, architecture, sunrises, etc…. Everyone else sleeps in late on vacation, I do the reverse. So as everyone else was going to bed on the cruise ship, I got out of bed and captured some wonderful photos of the ship.
I don’t know where the Carnival Dream cruise ship is at this exact moment, but I’m guessing the lobby is full of people having a great time. So here’s to them. Cheers.
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Hotel Lobby
Here is sort of a weird and fun photo…. It almost feels cartoon like to me. I took this looking down on the interesting architecture of the Secrets Silversands Resort lobby in Puerto Morelos Mexico.
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George Washington Hotel Lobby
This hotel was built in 1923 and designed by famous architect
William Lee Stoddart. Presidents
JFK and Harry S. Truman have stayed at the hotel in the past. There have been a number of music and
movie stars who have stayed at the hotel over the years. Interestingly, the horror film New
Terminal Hotel starring Corey Haim (if you can call him a star), was filmed
here. In 2010, local firefighters
discovered what they thought was the most grisly murder in Washington in over
35 years. About 8 hours was spent
investigating before authorities discovered it was leftover from the film.
This picture is from the second level looking down on the lobby. You can see the full color version below as well.
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Full color version.
Carnegie Music Hall Lobby
The main Carnegie Museums sit in the Oakland area of
Pittsburgh. Part of the museum
includes the Carnegie Music Hall, which is a remarkable Italian Renaissance
architectural design commissioned by Andrew Carnegie. Construction was started in 1891 and it has been used for
performance ever since.
Last spring, I called, emailed, and bugged the Events Coordinator until she allowed Brad, Dave, MJ and I access to photograph the inside of this amazing building. Tonight’s photo is of the main lobby outside of the music all. They had it setup for a wedding reception later in the day, which is a popular venue for receptions and events.
I captured this photo with a 3 exposure auto-bracketed set of images (+1, 0, -1) and created the HDR image with Photomatix Pro. If you ever get a chance to visit this location, please do so. It is worth the time to walk the facility. The attached museums are also great, but expect to spend more then a full day and you’ll still miss items. For more information on the Carnegie Museums, click HERE.
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org
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This picture isn’t in the Music Hall, but is in the museum: Museum Hall
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Carnegie Music Hall 2nd Floor Lobby
I got a great opportunity last spring to shoot the inside of Carnegie Music Hall in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. Following that photo shoot, I posted (prior to starting this blog) a number of pictures that you can see here:
Last night I was looking through some old shots and came across tonight’s post. I had forgotten about it and realized how much I liked this picture. I hope you like it as much as I do.
This was a 3-bracket set (+1, 0, -1) taken in the corner of the hallway looking down both directions. They had some junk in the way down one direction, so I removed it with Photoshop. Otherwise, this is how this wonderful facility looks.
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