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A Snowy Night In Downtown Denver


A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of returning home from Germany for about a week and a half.  Like most of my trips home, it was a brief little sojourn, but I did get the chance to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now: give Denver, Colorado the treatment I’ve given to Amsterdam, Bergheim, Cologne, the Rocky Mountains, Prague, Paris, Native American ruins in the New Mexico desert, and most recently, Bruges.

In other words, spend several hours drinking beers and taking pictures, and then spending several more hours sifting through the thousands of pictures and making a little movie out of them…

Fortunately enough,there was a steady snow falling on the evening I picked for my little photo shoot, and that turned Denver into a multitude of postcards.  So take a few minutes and have a look around my hometown, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed…

So that’s my little Denver video….  I hope you enjoyed it.

A little clerical note.  Hardocre followers of my blog know that I generally select a nice header image for each post, and further, that I didn’t do that this time.  Well, that’s because my generic header, the beautiful shot you see above, was taken about 2 years ago in downtown Denver.  Also, the background sunset you see is Denver.  I suppose it’s kind of telling that even after setting foot on 4 continents both permanent images up in here are from Denver, Colorado.  The more you know…

Anywho, come back soon for more Denver, Bruges, and witticisms.

Don’t be a stranger.

-B. Littleton

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In Bruges


So a couple of weeks ago my bad-ass of a mother flew from Denver to Frankfurt to come see me in Germany.  Further, knowing I could use a little break from Bergheim, she was even more of a bad-ass and looked into some cool shit we could do that wasn’t too far from the boring, sleepy little German town that I now call home.

I’ll admit, partially because I really enjoyed the movie that shares a title with this here post, we settled on Bruges, not quite a 3-hour drive away.  She found us a nice little apartment in the heart of the old town, and spent a couple of days strolling around the little Belgian city eating their waffles and drinking their beers and shit.

As said movie aptly describes it, Bruges is right out of a fairy tale.  It’s an incredibly scenic, romantic and beautiful little place.  After hours and hours of exploring and about 1800 pictures later, I was kind enough to make you this little video.  So, you can spend the next 5 minutes seeing just about all there is to see from this little town, and hear a pretty solid Cake song while you’re at it.  And you won’t even have to deal with any jet-lag.   Seems like a solid deal to me…

That’s all for now.  More from Bruges to follow, not mention some damn pretty pictures of Cologne, to toot my own horn just a bit.

Don’t be a stranger.

-B. Littleton

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Fun With An Intervalometer


A while back I picked up a neat little toy for any amateur photographer and/or nerd with a camera, an Aputure intervalometer.

This little guy set me back about 40 bucks on Amazon...

This little guy set me back about 40 bucks on Amazon…

Might not look like much, hell, it isn’t much, but it does let you do a couple of pretty neat little tricks.

The main reason I got this thing was for time lapse photography.  As the name suggests, with an intervalometer you can set up your camera and set the timer to take a picture at whatever delay and interval you choose.

Now, I admittedly don’t know much about photography, I just like to take pictures of shit, so it was a pleasant surprise when I found out that the device will also let you do super long exposure stuff.  The limit on my Nikon D90 is 30 seconds; with the intervalometer you can go up to 30 minutes, or just use it as a ‘bulb’ and have the shutter open as long as you depress the button.  Pretty cool for taking pictures of stars and shit at night.

Anywho, here’s a few pictures I took over the last couple days…

Long exposure shot - Boulder

Set everything up just outside my office window. Shutter was set to auto, had the camera take a picture every 6 seconds. Got lucky a few times and ended up with a couple of pretty cool shots as it got darker and the shutter slowed down…

Long exposure shot - Boulder, Colorado

One more.

Long exposure shot - Stars - Mountains, Colorado

Took this one up at my old man’s place in the mountains. This is a 15 minute exposure time to try to get the stars. I still need to practice a bit, but kind of a cool shot.

Long exposure shot - Stars - Mountains, Colorado

10 minutes this time, unfortunately, it was starting to get a little cloudy, so not so much on the stars…

And that’s all for today…  I’d best get to work.  But come back and see me, I have some pictures from this weekend’s 24-hour trip to Miami coming soon….

Don’t be a stranger.

-B. Littleton

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