desperante wrote:
Great photos. Thank you.
You're welcome. I hope they gave you some ideas about what you will see.
Just returned from Budapest > Amsterdam river cruise. This is the Parliament building taken on way out from Budapest . Sony A6300 with kit lens, hand held.
puku8849 wrote:
Just returned from Budapest > Amsterdam river cruise. This is the Parliament building taken on way out from Budapest . Sony A6300 with kit lens, hand held.
Wow. I'll try it without the filter on the way out tonight.
Here's the Bratislava Castle at night:
DSC_4568 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
Nikon D50, 18-200mm VR @ 120mm; f/5.6; 1/15 hand-held; ISO 1600
Nice picture. Well done! Thanks......George
Thank you to all who shared their tips with me. The river cruise was an excellent mode to tour Europe. Lots of old world sceneries: medieval castles, gothic and rococo churches, river locks, windmills, and on and on... Thanks again for all your encouraging comments.
St. Stephens Church in Budapest, Hungary.
The dome of a church in Bavaria.
A canal tour in Amsterdam.
We don't seem to have a photo of the canal tour in Amsterdam.
Nice photos, though!
The sun deck had to be off limits for five days because of the low bridges. The captain's wheelhouse and everything else on the sun deck had to be lowered before reaching the low bridges. There was a hatch for only the captain's head to help him see where he was going.
desperante wrote:
The sun deck had to be off limits for five days because of the low bridges. The captain's wheelhouse and everything else on the sun deck had to be lowered before reaching the low bridges. There was a hatch for only the captain's head to help him see where he was going.
Wow! That's a tight clearance.
A shot of seven bridges in a row in Amsterdam according to the tour guide. I could only make out three, four maybe.
Low bridges (high water level) on the river cruises are a common occurrence (which is why the boats are constructed with a lowerable wheelhouse). It sometimes happens that even that is not sufficient and a river cruise has to be interrupted because there is not enough clearance. On the cruise I took in 2010, we made it under all the bridges, but the tour behind us could not and the passengers were taken by coach to the other side of the low bridge and were parceled out among 2 other boats that had space available that were farther along (mine was one). Another feature of the cruise boats is that they can be lowered in the water (take on ballast), even to the point where the water level is above the floor of the lower deck--the windows on that level are sealed to keep out the water (so I have been told--we didn't have to do it).
My 2010 cruise was with Avalon Waterways, which is now part of Globus. It was fabulous! I do have a few photos of the canals in Amsterdam:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8712554@N02/sets/72157625690807750/.
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