This dog was responsible for the term "fido".
The legend goes like this: this pooch stood by his master's grave for 14 years after his death. He became so well known, people started calling him "fido", short for "fidelity". Ever since, dogs have been nicknamed "fido".
Cool story.
So we got this new golden retriever puppy, and he's just the right age to look like the movie posters from Marley & Me (even if not a yellow lab). So we decided to do our own version. Here's Talisker portraying the world's worst dog (though he's FAR from it).
This was our view down the stairs whenever we left our hotel room in Paris. Getting our luggage up those stairs was an adventure all it's own. I probably did a lot of wall damage trying to get my suitcase full of Scotch whisky up and down.
The lil' guy is in there, encased in six different coffins nested within one another. His tomb was a very, very cool place.
3 exposure HDR.
Welcome to Napoleon Bonaparte's final resting place. It is very clear when you go here what France thinks of this man.
Graveyards in Scotland are the coolest! There were many, many graves here older than the U.S.
This was a three exposure HDR taken in Edinburgh, just off the Royal Mile.
Now this is what I call the life. Hundreds of people hang out on the shores of the Seine River in Paris. I could get used to their kind of lifestyle, especially the food!
This head was about six feet tall and made of stone. Inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
The world famous Mona Lisa painting at the Louvre museum in Paris. Suffice to say the painting is quite the disapointment when seen in person. I can't be more than 2 feet wide.
Noisy as hell thanks to an insanely high ISO. No flash allowed. Shot at 3200 ISO.
What a beautiful cathedral though. It wasn't Westminster Abbey in London, but still very impressive.
The roundabout around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. This circle services 12 different streets, and it was NUTS.
Another view of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Looking straight up from beneath.
This was a 3 exposure HDR image.
Getting back to some Colorado photowalking, I went to a new place last weekend with a friend, not too far from my house. While there we discovered some old abandoned vehicles, including this old truck.
While in Europe we saw a lot of palaces. After a while it got a little old, and we found ourselves speeding through them a little faster. Then we got to Versailles, just outside of Paris. This is the grand pappy of all palaces. I went nuts there with my camera.
A three exposure HDR done from atop Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. This place had medieval written all over it!
