All Aboard Peter Pan’s Flight

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Guests getting on Pirate ships for a ride on Peter Pan’s Flight.Nikon D70/18-200VR, 1/50s, f/3.5, ISO 1600, EV +0.3, 18mm focal length. While today’s dSLR cameras can capture photos inside Peter Pan’s Flight in the Magic Kingdom, back when I had a Nikon D70, photographing the loading area was about the best I could hope … Continue reading "All Aboard Peter Pan’s Flight"
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Fisheyed Disney

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A fisheye lens is an ultra-ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image. Fisheye lenses achieve extremely wide angles of view by forgoing producing images with straight lines of perspective (rectilinear images), opting instead for a special mapping (for example: equisolid angle), which gives images a … Continue reading "Fisheyed Disney"
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Star Tours Queue Tower in Disney’s Hollywood Studios

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Mon Calamari officers overlook the Star Tours queue from a control tower..Nikon D700/Tokna 11-16m, 2s, f/8, ISO 800, EV 0, 16mm focal length, tripod. Mon Calamari officers overlook the Star Tours queue in Disney’s Hollywood Studios from a control tower. If you want to photograph in an empty Star Tours queue, stay late during an … Continue reading "Star Tours Queue Tower in Disney’s Hollywood Studios"
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New Fantasyland, New Photo Opportunities

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With the new additions to Fantasyland, came new photo opportunities. I have been enjoying all the new views from fellow Walt Disney World fans since the expansion opened to the public last November. I have not been back yet to see all the new attractions and beautifully Imagineered landscaping and structures. I did get a … Continue reading "New Fantasyland, New Photo Opportunities"
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Star Tours Queue in Disney’s Hollywood Studios

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My favorite park is Disney’s Hollywood Studios which brings the movies I have enjoyed to life. Star Wars, one of my favorites, was brought to life as an intergalactic travel agency called Star Tours. The queue to your StarSpeeder 1000 has you wander through a space port where soft announcements are made, a video screen … Continue reading "Star Tours Queue in Disney’s Hollywood Studios"
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Haunted Mansion Interactive Queue

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A Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party is not complete until you visit the Haunted Mansion. For the party, the Haunted Mansion gets spooky lighting and atmospheric effects (ie., fog) and a ghost greets guests on the lawn as they make their way to the mansion’s library entrance. Ghost in front of the Haunted Mansion … Continue reading "Haunted Mansion Interactive Queue"
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Disney Pic of the Week: Pixar

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Disney did one thing right when they teamed up, and later bought, Pixar Studios. Disney knew computer generated imagery (CGI) was the future of animated movie making. Pixar was not only ahead of every other studio in CGI but had the talent and creativity to produce good stories to go with the technology. With the … Continue reading "Disney Pic of the Week: Pixar"
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Waiting to Ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

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It is late in the day at the Magic Kingdom and the family wants to go on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. The standby line is 45 minutes and you agree it is worth the time. Because, you know you will be around the back of the queue which overlooks the ride just as the Sun … Continue reading "Waiting to Ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad"
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Hanging around Test Track in Epcot

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A Test Track dummy hanging around the ride queue.Nikon D70/18-200VR, 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 200, EV +0.3, 200mm focal length For my Disney Pic of the Week on Test Track, I caught this crash dummy hanging around the ride queue. He better be careful, they might put him in the barrier test with the guests for … Continue reading "Hanging around Test Track in Epcot"
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Disney Pic of the Week: Queues

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Imagine my surprise when I headed up the Fastpass queue for Space Mountain last December to find it totally empty. Space Mountain was still experiencing unexpected downtime after a year long refit and I was the first to enter after one of them. The new video games where only showing patterns as they don’t become … Continue reading "Disney Pic of the Week: Queues"
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