In the Heart of Dallas

In the Heart of Dallas, originally uploaded by Ivan Makarov.

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I just came back from Texas, where I spent a few days. I've been to the East and West Coast, and Wild West, but never been to what they call Mid-West. I'll tell you this - they know how to cook over there. I also enjoyed wondering around downtown of Dallas. They have amazing sky scrapers there, and at the same time the old downtown where Kennedy was shot is still the same. Next few images will be from this trip.

Technical details - I know I'll get asked, so I say upfront - this is not an HDR. I took one exposure to get this image, but it was 25 seconds long. I used two filters - ND400 to get the exposure time from 1/125 to 25 seconds, and a 3-stop ND grad to control the contrast between the bright sky and not-so-bright foreground. Post processing was a simple RAW conversion.