A first set of shots from the castle at the magic kingdom
Some shots of the Castle
Category Archives: Disney Parks
Some Disney shots from April of 2015
I’ve been posting some chosen shots to FB while working through things for Lorna’s scrap-booking. Here’s a selected set of interesting ones…
Mickey on a pedestal
Pastel dawn from BLT
Here there be dragons
Flowers on the canal
Beached fishy
The Disney crane in its native habitat
Spacy
Assistant second directors need love too
Wings over bay lake
Raptor or buzzard?
A bad day 🙂
Castle at the end of the day
Mountain at dusk
5K for the whole family
Circling over the magic
Golden waters
Mickey hiding from the mob
Baths needed
Not in Kansas…Orlando perhaps
Even the droids need some Mickey
Posters
Posters
Posters
Shopping in the emporium
Hanging with the red queen
Treats
Gateway to fantasy
Villains all…
The last drive in experience
Lunch!
Dreaming of Luxo
Lonely bell
Looking up
Up on the rooftops:?
Still life with bird and lantern
Bloomin’
Earth comes together
Predator and prey
Bright petals in animal kingdom
End with a white rose.
Working on May 2015 Disney Trip for Scrapping
Our last trip to Disney with our daughter before she joined the navy. This as a surprise trip that we added that year and was a whole lot of fun.
These are a few shots from a couple of days on that trip that I’ve post-processed while getting together pictures for Lorna’s scrapbooking.
The highest window
Persidents
Flower and Garden, Monorail Style
Stave church in the sun
View of the world from Venice
A rest from the war
Liberty’s torch
Peach and mango on the far horizon
Tink!
Doom approaches.
Eye of the dragon
Golden moon over Bay Lake
Contemporary docks.
No longer late in Orlando
Tell me no lies
Fireworks over beast’s castle
Deer by the wilderness campground
Peek-a-boo
A few shots from the new fireworks at Magic Kingdom
We did the dessert fireworks in the Magic Kingdom one evening after the new fireworks show started. I’ve started rummaging through the shots from that evening and here are a few initial samples.
Starting through the vacation pictures
This is our first weekend home again after vacation. I think we’re almost caught up on sleep and feeling human again 🙂 I’ve got most of the pictures from vacation together in one lightroom archive and ready to work on. Loads of pictures to be worked through but I’ll start posting here as I make progress…I expect quite a few postings over time.
This was a somewhat different photographic vacation from previous trips. I picked up a 100mm-400mm lens for my SLR last winter and wanted to give it a spin. This resulted in many more cell phone and small camera pictures (for anything that needed a wide angle) and lots of long and tight shots with the SLR as swapping out that monster for something wider was a bit of a hassle. Overall I think it worked out pretty well but only the final results will tell the tale.
Home again and settling in
We flew back from Orlando Monday evening. The flight was already scheduled to be late (9:20 out of Orlando to about Midnight here) and got bumped and bumped. They started telling us there’d be a short delay and by the time we were done, the flight headed out after 11 PM and we finally got in after 3 AM.
Lorna had picked up something that seems like strep throat at the end of the cruise and by the flight home she was pretty unhappy. I had started to feel some soreness in my throat as well. With the late hour and throat problems we’ve both been a bit frazzled for the balance of the week. Lorna gave it a couple of days and yesterday she set up a doctor’s appointment.
I worked Tuesday and Wednesday but by this morning my throat was getting worse as well. I decided to take the day as a sick day both to avoid possibly spreading the problem as work and to try to double up on the appointment. We did get looked at but so far we haven’t heard back about whether the strep test was positive. We are now on antibiotics and seem so far to be getting better.
I expect that this weekend is going to be a bit of a recovery weekend. We’re both still a bit worn out and Lorna’s not feeling the greatest. Got to get everything unpacked and squared away and get things rolling in the right direction.
I’m going to try to start working on my vacation photos this weekend. There are a lot of them and I still have some storage chips to load into the lightroom repository and the photo-pass pictures to download from my disney experience.
Hoping to hear from folks that we met on vacation who stop by the site…drop an email to kyle@ninecrows.com or comment on one of the items here to keep in touch.
Waiting for the ‘magical distress’ bus…
Our last in-park meal this year was at the Sci-Fi restaurant. Cool and cheesy in equal measures. Lorna and I were both a bit worn out by this time (and she had picked up a sort throat on the cruise with a mild fever) so we really didn’t fully enjoy our last few hours in the park.
Vacation is over for all reasonable purposes. At this point we’re just hanging out in comfy chairs in the lobby of the Disney Boardwalk resort. Devices recharging after a last day of use and before the craziness of the airport.
Hitting the bus at 6 PM with the flight making it to Manchester by sometime after midnight. Going to be a painful work day tomorrow running on a few hours sleep for a nine hour day. Expecting that this coming weekend will be a recharge and recover time.
Lorna got a bit of a bug at the tail end of things that left her final day less happy than might have been hoped. She seems to be feeling better now…hoping the flight home is uncomplicated.
aww…
Last full day of vacation
Waiting for. Lorna at the exit to destination space. Coming to the end of a wonderful vacation. Disney parks, great food and a double dip cruise. Only thing that could have made it better would have been if Alyssa could have joined us.
Last day of the first part of vacation
Checked out of the wilderness Lodge and waiting to grab breakfast at the Kona Cafe at the Polynesian. Somehow, my mind is automatically in ‘end of vacation’ mode even though I know we’ll be on the Disney Fantasy in a couple of days and back here at Boardwalk for a final weekend.
Cell phone shots as the computer is stored ?.
Fully post processed images will have to wait a couple of weeks.
Star wars
Got pics with Chewbacca and Kylo Ren followed by the dessert party. Had a nice chat with Eddie from the Dakota’s about engineering and vampire robots. Definitely need to get photos post processed and up here as soon as I get home. Reminds me that the site needs to be loaded up in advance.
Just a few shots from this trip.
