Maxwell Kruger Photography

It took me a lot of time, but I finally finished the majority of my photo stuff from Peru. I still have a lot of panoramas to stitch together, but I’ll do that when I’m bored – probably over the summer.

(Canon EOS 40D, 17mm, 1/40, f/4, ISO 800)

I carried a GPS receiver with me throughout the trip which logged everywhere we went (usually, depending on if it could get reception).

Similar to my European trip this summer, I combined the photos and GPS data into a Google Maps application. This time, it is enhanced with photos, GPS, my trip journal, and a new interface. Sorry, no Internet Explorer – it just doesn’t work in that browser.

home.maxwellkruger.com/Peru08

My photos are accessible in a gallery: http://photos.maxwellkruger.com/Travel/Peru/

Peru

(Canon EOS 40D, 17mm, 1/160, f/4, ISO 400)

People of Peru

(Canon EOS 40D, 135mm, 1/800, f/2.8, ISO 200)

Inca Trail

(Canon EOS 40D, 17mm, 13, f/5, ISO 800)

Inca Trail: The Porters

(Canon EOS 40D, 50mm, 1/50, f/1.8, ISO 800)

Lake Titicaca and Jungle

(Canon EOS 40D, 135mm, 1/160, f/2, ISO 1600)

I got back from Europe about a month ago…it’s been a long time coming with the photos but I’m finally done. Below the jump are some photos and the full album from the trip is at photos.maxwellkruger.com/Travel/European-Delivery-2008/.

We started in Munich, went east to Freiburg, to visit Chris and Berni at the university there, then went down through eastern Switzerland and also hit up Austria and Italy. Then we got news that we could visit Chateau Miraval, the Chateau that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are renting out and going to buy for $70M, if we could make it down to the south of France by the next morning. We drove through the night, got a few hours of sleep, and visited the next day. Did wine tasting and also got a tour of the studio there that such albums as Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Rammstein’s Mutter were recorded. Got to listen to the albums in the same space they were originally recorded! Then we headed down to Cannes and Nice and spend two days there, each. On the last day, we took 3 hours before we had to turn the car in and drove the Col de Turini. Amazing road, wish that we had spent more time on it!

I carried a small GPS receiver with me which recorded the route. I’ve downloaded the trip files and wrote a little web app to see the route that we took. Check it out here – home.maxwellkruger.com/europeandelivery/. If you turn on high detail, you can actually zoom in and see to the foot exactly where we were at most stages of the trip. If it’s running too slow for you, try to turn down the detail. Also, this means that most of the photos are geotagged so if you open them up in the gallery, you can view them on a map.

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I leave tomorrow to Germany to pick up my new BMW 135i for European Delivery. I’ll be driving around Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and France. I’m dropping my car off at the shipping handler in Nice, France in about a week. I’ve spent the last few weeks testing photo equipment and I’ve gathered everything I think I’ll need. I was putting it all together today and thought it was funny how much equipment I’m actually bringing. Below is a picture of some of the stuff that’s going into my carry-on only luggage.

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Right now, I’m currently 35,000 feet traveling 580mph over the Sea of Okhotsk. I’m on my way to Tokyo for a layover to Hong Kong. I’ve been sitting on this plane for more than 10 hours, and we’ve still got about 3 more to go before we get to Japan. I just happened to take out my laptop and saw that there was the Boeing Connexion wireless internet available for free. Pretty sweet. Just gave out hot towels. Now, it’s breakfast time…even though it’s really 10:45pm. Here’s a photo I just took collecting the hot towels.