Tag: Photoblog

  • An Evening at Knott’s Merry Farm Through a 35mm Lens

    An Evening at Knott’s Merry Farm Through a 35mm Lens

    Tonight I stopped by Knott’s Berry Farm to enjoy a couple of hours of it’s holiday celebration, Knott’s Merry Farm. I brought my Canon 6D with a 35mm lens attached and thought it would be fun to just take a few photos as I strolled around the park. Below is a look at Knott’s Merry…

  • A Soundsational Alice With the Diamond Mad T Party

    A Soundsational Alice With the Diamond Mad T Party

    Spring arrived at Disneyland this year on a Sunday. As many of you know, that is the day I visit the Disneyland Resort most frequently. Seeing as I have already taken quite a few pictures of spring, today was more of just one enjoyable day to relax in the park and take some fun pictures.…

  • Queen Elsa’s Heart

    Queen Elsa’s Heart

    The Frozen pre-parade before Mickey’s Soundsational Parade has become a favorite for many Frozen fans visiting the Disneyland Resort. It’s a great opportunity for fans young and old to get to see Queen Elsa and Princess Anna, especially if they decided not to make the trek over to Disney California Adventure to meet them personally.…

  • Dancing with Caballeros

    Mickey’s Soundsational Parade is full of incredible talent. Quite often it is easy to notice the characters, the musicians, and people towering above as they dance down the parade route on stilts. However, there are dozens of others that bring the magic to the parade on a daily basis. They are absolutely incredible performers and without them…

  • From Death Comes Life

    One of my favorite things to see and places to visit is the pier leading out to the SS Palo Alto. This is a cement ship (one of only three) that was built towards the end of World War 1 and never saw action after being launched in May of 1919. She was mothballed in 1929…

  • Home of the White Rabbit or the Mad Hatter?

    It has always been interesting to me that the Mad Hatter store in Fantasyland really appears to be the White Rabbit’s home. I suppose I could dig into this more and find out why this is but it really has never gone beyond idle speculation before. In fact, just writing about it today takes it…

  • “A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.”

    “A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.” – Unknown Yesterday I had the pleasure of getting to spend some time watching the Mad Hatter and Alice in Wonderland making memories at Disneyland. I hadn’t done this for quite some time and really it is a shame. As I stood there…

  • Visiting Alice in Wonderland

    One of my favorite things to observe at Disneyland are the magical interactions that happen daily throughout the Resort between kids of all ages and characters. On Sunday I was able to observe an adorable interaction between Alice in Wonderland and the girl in yellow. She was completely enthralled with Alice in her own little…

  • Goodbye Old Hat

    The time has come to say goodbye to the Sorcerer Mickey Hat at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. For many, this is the only icon they have ever known when entering the park. For others, it is a reminder of a 2001 change that maybe wasn’t so popular in some circles. For me, it is neither. It…

  • Like a Grand and Miraculous Spaceship

    Today I woke up thinking about what a new year is. It’s a new start. It’s a chance to hit the reset button in life and choose where to go from a new starting point. It’s a chance to decide and embark on a new adventure! Of course then my mind started wandering to things…

  • A Beautiful Night

    During Disneyland’s Holiday Time I just can’t get enough of Sleeping Beauty’s Winter Castle at night. It is obviously pretty year round but… add the snow and those magical lights and it goes to the next level. The other night I wandered through the park with my camera and tripod in hand and stopped to…

  • It's a Beautiful Small World

    Christmas time at the Disneyland Resort really is all about the magic of Christmas lights. Thousands upon thousands of lights are strung throughout the Resort turning an already magical place into something even more incredible. One of the places where a lot of these lights end up is It’s a Small World Holiday. Both inside and…

  • Beautiful Night, Beautiful Castle

    Sleeping Beauty Castle is always a beautiful focal point of the Disneyland Resort. During the Christmas season though, it becomes even more dazzling. Every night the “snow falls” and it lights up with the beauty of a wintery and snowy Disney magic to become Sleeping Beauty’s Winter Castle. While it looks pretty cool during the…

  • It's a Good Time to be a Star Wars Fan

      Now is a good time to be a Star Wars fan. With all the excitement going on with the upcoming Star Wars movies, particularly Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, this is the most exciting time to be a Star Wars fan since the mid nineties when there were rumors surfacing about new movies…

  • Pluto in the Rain on Main Street

    This morning started off with rain coming down. It was absolutely beautiful. So after a quick jaunt to Starbucks, I ran to Disneyland. I arrived just in time to catch the end of the “storm” with just a few scattered sprinkles still coming down. I made my way to the Hub where I found that…

  • Queen Elsa, Bring on the Cold!

    Frozen is all over the place these days, and it isn’t just Disneyland I’m talking about. While Christmas shopping last night, I saw Frozen merchandise EVERYWHERE. There were dolls, toys, games, clothes, blankets, wrapping paper, bags, cards, Christmas stockings, and decorations… just to name a few things I happened to notice last night. The other…

  • A Rainy Day with Tinker Bell and Fawn

    Rainy days at Disneyland are always a favorite of mine. A week or two ago we were blessed with a few rainy days so I grabbed my camera and made my way to the park. During one of these visits I saw there was pretty much no line to visit Tinker Bell so I stopped…

  • All in a Moment – the End of Mad T Party

    One of the things I love so much about photography is the capturing of moments. I could write on and on and on about something and still not capture the emotion of an event. However, I could attend the same event and capture a quick photo (sometimes intentionally, sometimes not) that captures and conveys the…

  • Anna: The Warmth of A Smile

    Some smiles can warm the coolest days… On a warm day, they are just frosting to an already lovely day. Last Sunday Anna had a particularly warm and charming smile. This picture was taken during the Frozen pre-parde on Main Street, USA  near the firehouse. Anna was having fun goofing around as they floated down…

  • Elsa

    A new fan favorite at the Disneyland Resort is the Frozen pre-prade. Throughout the summer this pre-parade has been delighting fans of Frozen who don’t want to wait the multiple hours it takes to meet them at their location in Fantasyland. It also has become a fun and quick way to get photos of Elsa…

  • The Steel Tree

    Kansas City, it turns out, is a really fun place to visit. I really didn’t expect much of anything when I was preparing to visit recently for a Reliv conference. However, once the conference was over and I began to explore, my eyes were opened…literally. Kansas City is known for its fountains. These were awesome.…

  • Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri

    Although only in use for a couple of years by Walt Disney, the Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri played a pivotal role in his life and the history of the Walt Disney Company and legacy. Founded in 1921, Laugh-O-Gram Films was where Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks found the inspiration for what would become Mickey Mouse.…

  • A Legend of Frontierland in Black and White

    Legends of Frontierland began last week and is in full swing now. This new immersive activity at the Disneyland Resort allows guests to not only experience the story of Frontierland, but also create it. Guests can do various tasks to earn bits (basically money) and then purchase land in Frontierland. They can choose to join…

  • Princess Aurora in Black and White

      Today I’m continuing on with my series of black and white photos for the week’s theme of the same thing. Yesterday, I took this picture of beautiful Princess Aurora in Mickey’s Soundsational Parade at Disneyland. I will admit, it was hard for me to take the color away from this picture because it really was a…