The family went this weekend up to the sleepy little hamlet of La Connor, Washington about 1 1/2 hours north of Seattle for the annual
Skagit County Tulip festival. Eventhough the weather was less than spectacular, overcast and cloudy, it was a fun time had by all. I took Friday off so we could drive up early and hang out with my Father-in-law at his pad on Alki Beach in West Seattle. Since my wife used to live in Seattle in the late eighties she has some friends we like to visit. We had a great dinner with them at a little Italian place near the University District called
Ciao Bella.
The food was tremendous and the company even better. I expected that if I went into the kitchen I would find Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro chowing down at a little table in the corner. The atomosphere had a touch of Goomba, if you know what I mean, right down to the fact it had a mysterious fire awhile back. Well the next morning we set off to see the Tulips, hoping they would be as good as last year. Unfortunately we were about 2 weeks early but there were a few pockets of blooms.
The town of La Connor is a cool place and this particular weekend was the kickoff for the festival so they had live music, jugglers, unicyclists and plenty of local food like CRAB, mmmm.
I was going to bring my bike with the expectation of a nice ride around the tulip fields but at the last moment I decide not to and I regretted it the whold time we were there. Why do you ask? Unbeknownst to me there was the
bike rally going on that day. Everywhere I looked there were colorfully donned cyclists peddling around on wonderful roads. I will kick myself everytime I think about this. Damn, Damn, and double Damn.
The family went this weekend up to the sleepy little hamlet of La Connor, Washington about 1 1/2 hours north of Seattle for the annual Skagit County Tulip festival. Eventhough the weather was less than spectacular, overcast and cloudy, it was a fun time had by all. I took Friday off so we could drive up early and hang out with my Father-in-law at his pad on Alki Beach in West Seattle. Since my wife used to live in Seattle in the late eighties she has some friends we like to visit. We had a great dinner with them at a little Italian place near the University District called Ciao Bella.
The food was tremendous and the company even better. I expected that if I went into the kitchen I would find Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro chowing down at a little table in the corner. The atomosphere had a touch of Goomba, if you know what I mean, right down to the fact it had a mysterious fire awhile back. Well the next morning we set off to see the Tulips, hoping they would be as good as last year. Unfortunately we were about 2 weeks early but there were a few pockets of blooms.
The town of La Connor is a cool place and this particular weekend was the kickoff for the festival so they had live music, jugglers, unicyclists and plenty of local food like CRAB, mmmm.
I was going to bring my bike with the expectation of a nice ride around the tulip fields but at the last moment I decide not to and I regretted it the whold time we were there. Why do you ask? Unbeknownst to me there was the bike rally going on that day. Everywhere I looked there were colorfully donned cyclists peddling around on wonderful roads. I will kick myself everytime I think about this. Damn, Damn, and double Damn.
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Holy Cow batman, those are some Tulips! We're heading out to Lancaster in a week or so for the poppy's! What kind of camera are you shooting with?
GT,
Last years crop was even better. I'm talking square miles of blooms, it's quite spectacular. I'm using a Canon G3 I bought a few years ago before we went to Europe.
Cool, the G3 has the DIGIC processor. The EOS-20D and 5D also use that processor - good chip!
From the specs of the G3, it looks like there is a lens thread adapter to allow a 58mm filter. I would recommend 2 purchases if you haven't already done so. 1, get a 58mm UV filter (keep this on at all times to protect lens scratches) and 2. Get a polorizer filter, the clouds in your pictures will really STAND OUT (it will act like your polorized glasses). Total investment = $50.
Also, are you shooting in RAW or .JPG, I find RAW to allow me to correct my mistakes - but hog the disk space?
I have the tube bayonet that allows me to add filters. I have the UV, polarizer and rose coloered one for B&w. Th only problem I've encounterd is the adapter sometime gets in the picture.
I've been shooting in jpeg most of the time. My photoshop skill are rudimentary at best.
If you shoot in RAW, you can loose the Rose filter and do the Tone changes on the backend. You don't need photoshop, Canon should supply you with software for handling the RAW images... but don't quote me. They do for the EOS bodies. Get the polorizer, it really is noticable. Is the adapter causing ring marks in the corners of the image (vignetting)? If so, it's still not bad... 1) you can always crop, 2) it still draws the viewers eyes to the center of the image which is usually what you want!
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