It's Another Photo Update!

Let's get to it!

And we'll somehow start at the very back of the park where something seems off...

Perhaps these fountains are off, hmm...yes... I think they are.

Imagination was particularly bright today.

Spaceship Earth, watching me from across the park.

I see you peeking at me, Spaceship Earth!

Then I saw some fish and got distracted.

Let's put the propeller on whisper mode for a closer look.

Just hanging out, not a care in the world.

Yo

I thought I saw a spot on my lens to the left of the center jet but it turned out to just be a helicopter.  It's always a helicopter.

The fountain appears to be suffering from a weak stream.

I am inexplicably obsessed with finding new ways to photograph this particular spot.

Thought I'd try doing a panning shot of the monorail and I don't think it came out too bad.

Oh crap, it's watching me again!

This was the emptiest I had seen this area in a while so I thought I'd take advantage of it.

I went up the monorail ramp to try getting a little elevation for this photo. What I wound up getting was questioned by a security guard because I later went down the entrance ramp and that's all backwards!

And now we're off to DHS where we start off with everyone's favorite toilet paper tree. Side note: Are there any others?

Eisner be praised, the Splash fountain is back!

It's back!

This fire hydrant appeared to be leaking, better move in for a closer look.

Well that certainly does look like a leak.

Okay, enough of that.

Did I mention that the Splash fountain is back?

Gonzo hanging out at the Splash fountain!

Row, row, row your boat, gently round the Splash fountain.

Okay, serious question: What's the deal with this?

Gertie letting off some steam.

IT'S THE EYE OF THE GEEEERTIIIIEEEE

Orange You Glad I Made a Photo Update?

I've always said There's no better way to start off a photo update than with a pun. and I'm not about to apologize for it. Now after all the interesting stuff going on in the world of the world wide web in the past 24 hours, I'm sure plenty of people are wondering what's been going on in the Magic Kingdom, and that's fair. Who isn't curious about that? Lucky for you, I have answers. Oh man do I have answers. Let me tell you about those answers, all the answers I have. I have so many answers that I am the Radio Shack of Jeopardy contestants. I have a lot of R/C cars and nobody understands how I'm still around. Wait, that's not right. What was I doing? Oh, right, photo update.

And that's it. That is literally the only thing that happened in the entire Magic Kingdom today. You should have seen the line at City Hall when people found out none of the rides were operating!

A Night At EPCOT

Just doing a little photo update here with some pictures I took while at EPCOT earlier this evening. Let's dive in!

This evening's trip begins in the always exciting Computer A-Go-Go!

"Alright, I'll just get an idea of where I want to set up for when the monorail comes by and it should make a decent photo..."

WHO ARE YOU WHERE DID YOU COME FROM YOU HAVE HORRIBLE TIMING GO AWAY

And after a bit of unnecessary editing and some fake HDR work, annoying Lady Walking in Front of My Camera At the Worst Moment, is gone!

Hello, squirrel!

I'm not sure what you're eating, nor do I want to know, but I'm glad you seem to like it.

I think I hit the shutter button on accident.

A night shot of the reverse waterfall outside of Imagination. Not totally happy with it and I think I could've done this better but that can wait for next time.

Have a picture of the Fountain of Nations. People kept walking on front of my camera here too, but with 20 second exposures it's like they never existed!

This SSE photo is quite overexposed, but some people walked by wearing mouse ears while I was taking it and now they appear to be ghosts on the left side of the screen and I think that gives this photo some real deep meaning of some sort. Ghosts would also explain the Leave a Legacy tombstones so maybe I am on to something!

Don't photograph Illuminations from the parking lot, there's a lot of lights and they will flood your camera and it will ruin everything and is that a lens flare? Forget this, I'm going home!

Photo Updates from the Recent Past!

Today we're going all the way back to October 2011, to visit the Magic Kingdom on it's 40th Anniversary!

There was a presentation at Cinderella Castle with people like Meg Crofton and Phil Holmes, I wasn't really paying attention because everyone else was and that meant there weren't any lines at any of the rides. There were a lot of fireworks though. Either that, or Cheech and Chong are also Disney VPs.

It was crowded. The weird kind of crowded though, not the normal kind. The kind where the PeopleMover and Tiki Room have lines but Splash Mountain still has a normal wait time.

Splash Mountain having a normal wait time. You can't see the sign here but trust me, it was normal.

See, back in 2011, Storybook Circus was completely under construction. Not like today, where it's mostly under construction.

John

John

John

John and also Rover

If you look closely, there might just be a mistake in this picture where I had to stitch a couple photos together.

These are various items that would be boring on their own, but a President once owned each one so they're interesting.