Across the Evening Drawbridge
A few weeks ago, when I was making an increasingly rare nighttime photo run, I was doing so under "Tokyo Disney rules," without tripod, just taking photos by hand. This was natural for on ride photos, since a tripod is frown upon aboard motion vehicles, but it was more challenging for longer, multiple exposures to capture more light from a scene and layer into a composite, balanced photo. Fortunately, a helpful railing and a flip-out screen to help compose the screen assisted greatly. The latter was not an amenity I possessed when I visited the Tokyo Disneyland Resort last, in 2016, but it certainly made framing and holding the camera still easier and from a more comfortable position. I wasn't willing to take my shutter down super slow, so there is still noise in the resulting blend. But it's not bad for something taken without fixed stabilization! The 70th Anniversary Castle just a few pre-spring weeks ago.









