Bicycles!

In my travels the most bike friendly I've yet to visit has to be Copenhagen, Denmark. They have have bike paths and lanes everywhere. The image below is in the central part of the city near the indoor/outdoor market. I sometimes forget where I've parked my car at the mall. How hard would it be for me to find my bicycle? I love the chaos of this image. I used a high f stop to get the depth of field I needed to get as many of the bikes in focus as possible. It was created with a Canon 7D MkII and a Tamron 18-200mm lens at 63 mm. The camera settings used were AV mode, ISO 200, F 18.0 at 1/40th of a sec. God's blessings upon your week, chris

Market Place or Eating Our Way Through Copenhagen

It was our plan to go on a "Food Tour" of Copenhagen while we were there. But after checking in with the hotel desk we arrived at the conclusion that a visit to the market place close to the Amalienborg Palace would end up accomplishing much of what we wanted at a cheaper price. The market place was visual treat. I felt like a little kid in a candy store. Of course candy was being sold by a chocolatier there as well.There were butchers and cheesemakers etc. and best of all a deli that sold an amazing variety of open faced sandwiches one of the most popular and common foods in Denmark.We had a fabulous time and I highly recommend it. The market place was both indoor and outdoor with two glass enclosed buildings with vendors stalls as well as outdoor with fruit vegatable and flower sellers on the outside. It was well worth the visit. The sandwiches were delicious! God's love and blessings to all, chris All images were photographed with a Canon 7D mkII. #TeamCanon

Admiral Hotel

When we were in Copenhagen we stayed at the Admiral Hotel which was a converted grain storage building built in 1787. Our room was very warm and comfortable. It had huge wooden beams supporting the ceiling which gave the room a historic feel. We had a room on the second floor with a little balcony that had great views of the harbor with its working boats, water taxis and sight seeing boats. The lobby had large scale model ships in glass cases scattered about adding to the nautical theme of the building. This was important as the building is right on the harbor and ships could pull alongside the pier to load and offload their cargo. The hotel was centrally located and was two blocks from Nyhavn one way and three blocks from Amalienborg Castle the other. It was also just across the bay from the opera house. The hotel was originally built as two warehouses for the trading company, Østersøisk-Guineiske Handelskompagni. It was later taken over by the trading firm by Pingel, Meyer, Prætorius & Co. The buildings were finished in 1787 to designs by engineering officer Ernst Peymann. The building was taken over by the Swedish Crown in 1788 and put into use as grainaries. The two buildings were later connected together in 1885 to make one long building. It was converted for use as a hotel in 1978 and remodeled in 2004. We had a good time photographing our hotel and the views from it of the opera house and of the new ski slope being built across the bay. Can you spot the ski slope? Its the truncated cube. A large silver building behind the workboat in the images below. Lacking mountains for a ski area they decided to build one. Have a great day and God bless, chris All images were photographed with a Canon 7D mkII. #teamcanon