Bi-Weekly Photo: Arc de Triomphe

During my road trip in the summer I experimeted a bit with my camera. I wanted to try panorama photography, and the Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris seemed turned out to be a pretty good setting.

This is my first attempt at making a panorama photo. I stiched 16 pictures together with a piece of software called Hugin, trying to cut out as many cars as possible from each picture. Since the Place Charles de Gaulle is a huge intersection, it wasn't an easy task, and I couldn't remove every car, but I got close enough.
I also haven't gotten a hang of all the software's parameters yet, so the angle is a bit off (as you can see by the round upper edge of the Arc de Triomphe), but overall I'm quite happy about the result.

Bi-weekly photo: Madrid's subway

For this weeks entry I wanted to post a picture that probably does not have any artistic value, but symbolizes my daily routine during my school years. I took this picture during the trip to Spain in September. It shows the subway station "Nuevos Ministerios" in Madrid, one of the major stations of the Metro de Madrid. In case you're wondering, in Spain we have right-hand traffic. The Metro de Madrid is an exception. Apparently, when its first line was built, left-hand traffic was still the norm in Madrid, and when they changed that, they decided to keep the subway as it was to avoid additional costs.