One thing I love about Amsterdam is the amazing & broad spectrum of colors & textures. To capture this photo, I had to sit on a little side platform that hung out over the water. Just off to the side of this photo is the Montelbaans Tower.

This is a canal behind Zeedijk in Amsterdam. Zeedijk is one of the oldest sections of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. It's a sight to be seen and a great time of day to visit is late afternoon.

Some refer to this area as "Little Venice" as it's one of the only places in Amsterdam where water goes up right next to house just like in Venice.

Canon EOS 7D with 55 - 250 mm @55mm 3 image HDR composite in Photomatix, tweaked in Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta. KH3F88PADUMW

Another angle of Castle De Haar in The Netherlands taken from the
gardens. It was a picture-perfect day wandering around this wonderous castle.

3 image HDR processed in Photomatix. Canon EOS 7D with Tameron 10 - 24 MM @ 10mm

My fiancée and I were recently in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and were fortunate enough to visit Rembrandt's House. What was even more amazing was that you could wonder around freely and take photos, rooms were not roped off.

That's how I was able to get this closeup shot, security at the house did not seem to mind I was taking a photo inches away from this work area with paints. The tricky part was that flash was not allowed and the light was rather dim.

Ok, so I caved and got an iPad the other day. One of the first things I noticed, there are some stunning and amazing ipad native apps in the app store. As a photographer I am always looking for the latest and greatest as far as apps go. Before it would have been on the iPhone, now it's for the iPad. 

And one of those pps is called LightTrac which can determine the sun's elevation and direction over any outdoor subject and show it to you on a map. For a photographer, this is ideal because you always want to know what the best time of day to photograph a landmark of specific location will be. LightTrac can help the photographer scout for new photo rich locations on a map ahead of time and the best times of day to shoot them.

It was a rainy, cloudy & foggy day when we visited this stunning 12th century Dutch castle so I tried to leverage the weather conditions to my advantage to create moody and artistic photos.

Canon EOS 7D, 3 shot HDR composite in Photomatix, post processed in Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2. Tameron 10 - 24 mm @ 10mm.

Front View of Castle De Haar in the Netherlands. It was a picture perfect day. The castle was under construction but a little Photoshop magic helped the situation to get rid of some the construction eye sores in the photo.

Canon EOS 7D with Tameron 10 - 24mm ultra wide zoom @ 10mm. 3 shot HDR done in Photomatix, post processed in Adobe LightRoom 3 Beta 2 and touched and sized in Photoshop CS 3

This is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Amsterdam and is one of the rare locations where you see water right up next to houses. Some call this particular area "Little Venice" because of this.

I've been on vacation for the past week in the Netherlands. It was a perfect opportunity for me to try new methods and techniques with photography. Other than using my main camera, a Canon EOS 7D, I like to experiment with other kinds of cameras. I have never thought of the iPhone camera as anything useful, admittedly I am a megapixel and lens snob so the iPhone camera fell short for me.

I took this photo while on vacation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands this past week. The photo was taken at the corner of Leidsegracht & Keizersgracht, a favorite among photographers in Amsterdam. I have one more full day here on Tuesday and the weather is supposed to be perfect so I am hoping to get back out and take some more photos! By the way, I proposed marriage to my girlfriend on this bridge while we were there.