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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a few bad habits you want to stay away from when photographing at a Disney property. This week I want to go over a couple of good habits. I am often asked how I get such good photographs of Walt Disney World. I do a couple of … Continue reading "Disney Photographer Habits Part 2"
Hidden Mickeys around Walt Disney World
Posted onVarious paintings hang on the walls in The Plaza Restaurant in the Magic Kingdom. This painting is on a rear wall to the right as you enter. Two sets of small circles on the front of this woman’s dress suggest classic Mickeys. One group of circles is near and below her right hand. The other … Continue reading "Hidden Mickeys around Walt Disney World"
Disney Pic of the Week: Animal Kingdom Landscape
Posted onFor Animal Kingdom I had to look back into my archives. These days it is difficult to get a panoramic or landscape photo without people in it. Here is one I found from Camp Minnie-Mickey where Pocahontas and her Forest Friends performed several times a day. I needed the panoramic feature to get the entire … Continue reading "Disney Pic of the Week: Animal Kingdom Landscape"
Disney Pic of the Week: Disney’s Animal Kingdom Landscape
Posted onOf all the parks, Disney’s Animal Kingdom has wonderful landscape photography locations if you know where to look. Below is a photo taken back in 2009 which is why you do not see the recently added seating for the night time Rivers of Light show. I photographed Expedition EVEREST late in the day which is … Continue reading "Disney Pic of the Week: Disney’s Animal Kingdom Landscape"
Farewell to the Great Movie Ride in Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Posted onAs Disney's Hollywood Studios continues to transform, another original attraction closes. This time it's the Great Movie Ride, which will close August 13, 2017, to make way for a new Mickey Mouse-themed ride-through attraction called Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway.
Disney Pic of the Week: Landscape Magic Kingdom
Posted onAs Scott mentioned yesterday, Disney Imagineers are experts when it comes to “forced perspective”. It tricks the eye into believing something is larger /taller than it really is. Walt was famous for this as he tried to deal with the space limitations at Disneyland. Here is a recent example from the New Fantasyland, the Beast’s … Continue reading "Disney Pic of the Week: Landscape Magic Kingdom"
Disney PIc of the Week: Magic Kingdom Landscape
Posted onFor the next few weeks, Deb and I will be sharing our landscape photography from Walt Disney World. The definition of Landscape Photography is showing spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. That’s pretty broad. Must people think of vast expanses showing mountains, deserts, oceans and other such places when … Continue reading "Disney PIc of the Week: Magic Kingdom Landscape"
Hidden Mickeys in the Magic Kingdom
Posted onA black Mickey-shaped image is suspended in front of the left side of an upper-story window along the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, in the room with women chasing men in circles to the left of your boat. I’m not sure what it is; maybe it’s the end of a bar or pipe? I don’t … Continue reading "Hidden Mickeys in the Magic Kingdom"
Disney Pic of the Week: 2000s
Posted onPicture This! Photoblogger Scott on the Wild Africa Trek in Disney’s Animal Kingdom.Copyright Disney 2011. Used by permission. I am cheating a bit here as the Wild Africa Trek started in 2010 and I did not do it until early 2011 but…Disney’s Animal Kingdom is our 2000s decade park so I am going with it. … Continue reading "Disney Pic of the Week: 2000s"
Sharing Details from Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Posted onFor the last two weeks I have urged you to look around and enjoy the details found at Walt Disney World. Today I want to just share of few of my favorites from my last visit to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. As you walk into MuppetVision 3-D, you will see a series of fictitious movie posters … Continue reading "Sharing Details from Disney’s Hollywood Studios"
