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Disneyland

Posted on | July 1, 2011 | 3 Comments

It's a Small World Ride at Disneyland, Anaheim, California

It's a Small World Ride at Disneyland, Anaheim, California

I went to Disneyland with some friends a few days ago and it was my first visit since my senior year of high school. It was my favorite amusement park as a kid so I was pretty excited to revisit all the old classic rides like It’s a Small World and the Mark Twain Riverboat. It’s been so long that I remember the price between somewhere around $30 when I last visited, rather than $80. Though they aren’t new rides, I went on the Matterhorn, Splash Mountain and Winnie the Pooh for the first time. I was too scared to go on the Matterhorn and Splash Mountain when I was younger but at this point in life it’s just fun. The Haunted Mansion was my favorite ride as a kid because of how unique it was but this time I really enjoyed Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain and Indiana Jones.

Since we were there purely for fun, I left the DSLR at home and just carried a small point and shoot camera along for personal snapshots. Though a large percentage of my image sales are of travel photos, I couldn’t imagine putting a serious amount of effort photographing Disneyland. It’s a place that’s meant to be fun, not to work. Sometimes a travel photographer needs to just experience travel as a tourist rather than hiding behind a viewfinder. It takes one to know one after all.

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3 Responses to “Disneyland”

  1. David Leland Hyde
    July 1st, 2011 @ 10:02 am

    Yay, I like the perspective and colors. Definitely captures the spirit of Disneyland.

  2. Ron Niebrugge
    July 1st, 2011 @ 10:40 am

    $80 wow has that gone up! That would be a tough place to photograph.

  3. Richard Wong
    July 1st, 2011 @ 11:23 am

    Thanks guys.

    Ron – that doesn’t include California Adventure either, and you probably won’t be able to fit even half the rides in on a single day. There’s a lot to do there.

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