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In the spirit of taking pictures of things through things, this is the set of stairs leading to the convention hall from the Garden.
...same with glowing edges, set in Elements.
This, along with the next seven postings, was captured from the balcony of our room, hand-held with the 18-200mm lens.
Also captured on the walk that day. This was on the very lowest level, entering from the Cascade atrium.
...taken on a walk through the maze of pathways in the Garden.
This thicket of twisting branches was spread out below the elevated walkway where I was standing. Had to do some highlight darkening in Elements to bring out detail in those branches.
This one is being posted because others have commented on how much they like it. In Nashville during those days it was alternatively cloudy and sunny; I jumped into action when it got cloudy to take advantage of the even, natural light coming through the atrium roof. Also, it was easy to play with depth of field because of the varying distances of so many trees and other plants sticking up from the ground floor.
This shot was captured on the central elevated walkway, in the direction of our balcony.
The sun's gradual rise on that day had the effect of selectively highlighting various plants and flowers. This is one shot where the black dropper tool in Elements was used to darken shadows, resulting in greater saturation and apparent brightness of the flower in the middle.
Now that we've gone through the more general - dare I say even boring? - panoramas of the Garden atrium in Nashville's Gaylord Resort, it's time to get to specifics. Most of the next dozen or so pictures were taken from the balcony of our room.
If you've gone through very many postings in this blog, you've observed that I like to take pictures of lampposts. They give an older-world, nostalgic flavor to almost any photograph.
This posting was captured in the morning just as the sun rose enough to shine through the glass atrium roof. I thought about cleaning up the scratches in the foreground top a bit, but decided that the results wouldn't be very smooth. Maybe another day...
This panorama is a first for me because it is stacked - five on top and five on bottom. Thanks to the serious tripod received for Christmas last year, I was able to measure the pan between each shot to a precise degree.
Though the Garden is smallest of the three atria at the Gaylord, it has by far the most intricate pathway system in the whole place. I could have spent a half-day in here with a tripod just capturing the little waterfalls, meandering pathways, bridges, and plant fauna.
The smallest of the three atria is called the Garden, and it's easy from this three-shot panorama to see why. Upon checking in we requested a room that would open up to an atrium, and this is where we ended up. The next posting is a view from the balcony of that room, which is on the left side of this view.
Interesting to think that all of this is indoors...
This photo is absolutely untouched aside from a little cropping; it was taken with the older and slower 18-200 mm lens.
