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I can't find any info on the history of this quirkly little motel in Luling, Texas. If you have any info on the Rock-A-Bye Motel please add it to the comments and I'll update the descriptions. The entire series can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/normlanier/sets/72157632025756161/

I can't find any info on the history of this quirkly little motel in Luling, Texas. If you have any info on the Rock-A-Bye Motel please add it to the comments and I'll update the descriptions. The entire series can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/normlanier/sets/72157632025756161/

I can't find any info on the history of this quirkly little motel in Luling, Texas. If you have any info on the Rock-A-Bye Motel please add it to the comments and I'll update the descriptions. The entire series can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/normlanier/sets/72157632025756161/

I can't find any info on the history of this quirkly little motel in Luling, Texas. If you have any info on the Rock-A-Bye Motel please add it to the comments and I'll update the descriptions. The entire series can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/normlanier/sets/72157632025756161/

I can't find any info on the history of this quirkly little motel in Luling, Texas. If you have any info on the Rock-A-Bye Motel please add it to the comments and I'll update the descriptions. The entire series can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/normlanier/sets/72157632025756161/

I can't find any info on the history of this quirkly little motel in Luling, Texas. If you have any info on the Rock-A-Bye Motel please add it to the comments and I'll update the descriptions. The entire series can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/normlanier/sets/72157632025756161/

I can't find any info on the history of this quirkly little motel in Luling, Texas. If you have any info on the Rock-A-Bye Motel please add it to the comments and I'll update the descriptions. The entire series can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/normlanier/sets/72157632025756161/

I can't find any info on the history of this quirkly little motel in Luling, Texas. If you have any info on the Rock-A-Bye Motel please add it to the comments and I'll update the descriptions. The entire series can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/normlanier/sets/72157632025756161/

I can't find any info on the history of this quirkly little motel in Luling, Texas. If you have any info on the Rock-A-Bye Motel please add it to the comments and I'll update the descriptions. The entire series can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/normlanier/sets/72157632025756161/

A shot of the Voodoo Money sign at the Las Vegas Neon Sign Museum (the Boneyard)

Neon Sign Museum - Las Vegas

Neon Sign Museum - Las Vegas

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Neon Sign Museum - Las Vegas

Neon Sign Museum - Las Vegas

Neon Sign Museum - Las Vegas

Neon Sign Museum - Las Vegas

Neon Sign Museum - Las Vegas

Neon Sign Museum - Las Vegas

Jackson Square looks great at any time but I really like it at night.

The night has just begun on Bourbon Street.

I think New Orleans is the only town where you can walk around with white powder on your face and no one will think you're a druggy.

Home of the Hurricane.

Bourbon Street is wild anyway, but on Haloween...

I noticed when we were on Bourbon Street that with parking being so bad in the French Quarter that most employees biked to their jobs. Thanks in advance for comments and Favs

Every night's a party on Bourbon Street

Strangely enough this photo strikes me as kind of creepy.

Great place to watch the revelers go by.

This looks like a scene from a movie

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HDR shot run through Photomatix with 5 exposures. This was my first visit to California Adventure and my first trip to Disneyland for the sole purpose of photographing in the parks.3 days still wasn't enough. I'm jealous of those that can drive over any time with an annual pass and constantly try new ideas. Living just outside of Houston, TX it's a big deal for me to get to any Disney Park. BTW all my photos are done on an Olympus E-PL3 4/3 system. Yeah my brother's new Nikon D8000e is amazing but being able to get all my gear in a bag the size of a large lunchbox has it's advantages 🙂

This shoot of the Tower of Terror lobby in Disney's California Adventure was taken with my 7.5mm Rokinon ultra-wide angle lens grabs the tons of detail in the scene. This is a 5 shot HDR photo processed with Photomatix.

I love the scene Disney created here. Much more subtle than Cars Land but just as beautiful in my opinion.

Several exposure HDR blend of Radiator Springs Racers.

So I'm standing around in Cars Land trying to take a photo of the Stanley Statue and Fountain and people keep coming up and standing around. You know what I''m talking about, mentally you are screaming "MOVE ALREADY" but you politely stand there with your camera on a tripod while they check their text messages. Any way, so I'm standing there and I get a break in the crowd ready to pop off several exposures and this guy walks up with two kids, one walking and one in a stroller. The one kid walking tries to see the fountain and his dad picks him up and the kid leans forward and starts drinking from the fountain. Again I'm mentally screaming "Hey that's recirculated water and not meant for human consumption". But what happened next shocked me even more... the dad reaches down, takes the other kid out of his stroller and lets him get a drink too. I should have taken a picture of this made for sitcom scene but was so surprised by the entire thing I forgot to. If someone knows that this is actually a drinking fountain then I'm the bonehead.

A parting shot at then end of a great day of shooting

Empty Buena Vista Street

Done with my Rokinon 7.5mm which helps pull it all in.

Live and learn, sometimes 5 exposures isn't enough. I should have gone with a darker under exposure to maintain the detail in the neon. That being said I do love the colors on the corrigated tin.

Flo's V8 Cafe IT is the spot every photographer has to take on while at California Adventure.

A shot I grabbed after the park had closed. This is an HDR shot composed from 5 exposures in Photomatix. I then did a little cleanup in Photoshop to reduce some lens flares I didn't like by masking back in some elements from one of the exposures.

I set my tripod up to do multiple exposures and on the last and the longest a log went down the shoot and the flash went off for the photo you can purchase at the end of the ride. I was quite surprised when I looked at the screen to see how cool it was that their flashes light up the scene so perfectly. 5 shot HDR run through Photomatix. A little photoshop to remove my brothers large head from the bottom of the photo. Thanks Gary for getting in the way.

The Disneyland Matterhorn Bobsleds in the background with the Yeti footprint in the foreground. 5 exposure HDR run through Photomatix.

So this is a little gem I'm sure most visitors miss. So I ran upon this spot just as the little light show went off. I stood there and stood there waiting and nothing so I got some shots of the Astro Orbiter and then left to get some other shots. Came back right at the end again. Finally figured out it went off every 15 minutes and was able to get this shot.

What you get isn't always what you end up with. To see where I started take a look here www.flickr.com/photos/85864407@N08/8045489196/in/photostream

There's something I really like about this shot that I can't put my finger on. Maybe it's the way the street looks wet but it wasn't. Or maybe it's the blue glow and the way it contrast with the warm lights. Anyway I think it's a keeper.

This an HDR shot from the train station. I left remove ghosting off and love how the multiple exposures blended together to create movement in the shot.

Shot with my Rokinon 7.5mm on my Olympus PEN E-P3

Photographically there is nothing special here, it's just a cool-ass lamp that helps make Port Royal Curios and Curiosities an awesome store.

Photomatix is great for combining exposures for eye-popping HDR but for me it's just the beginning. Once Photomatix has done the hard work I finesse the shot by impotying it back into Photoshop with other layers and using layer mask and paint back in other exposures to get the final image where I want it.