Disneyland photography blog
I tend to think photography has 2 forms: an active form when you’re looking for and pre-visualizing photos, and a passive form when you’re not looking for things but finding them anyway.
Active photography is a hunt, a mission. It’s a form that can be turned on and off by an act of will.
CONTINUE READINGYour eyes do not deceive you. Back-to-back posts! Could this be the start of a new trend? It smells like momentum…and refried beans. Maybe that’s just the smell of dinner warming on the stove. That makes more sense.
CONTINUE READINGWith a name like “Tours Departing Daily” we sometimes get questions about what exactly it is that we do. What is our website? Do we offer tours? Travel arrangements?
Not exactly…
Continue ReadingWe had the privilege of speaking at the Chapter at the Park meeting of the Disneyana Fan Club yesterday. It was an absolute blast getting to share a few of our stories and thoughts with some of the nicest folks we’ve met since starting Tours Departing Daily. What gracious hosts!
Kevin, Michaela and I don’t do a lot of public speaking but we were doing a pretty good job keeping down the nerves. That is, until Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily walked in! They shared a couple of announcements for upcoming events in Anaheim that sounded like a lot of fun. Anaheimland with Charles Phoenix is being presented by the Anaheim Historical Society in May, celebrating the original Magic Kingdom and the city around it. In October, Anaheim will be having its nearly century old annual Halloween parade. We saw pictures of last year’s and were so bummed we missed out. We won’t be making that mistake again this year and neither should you!
We will be speaking again at the Disneyanamania Convention in July. We’re really looking forward to it and would love it if you’d join us!
Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room is so much fun. The gorgeous colors, the relaxing tropical atmosphere, the brilliant song by the Sherman brothers and the witty script performed by talented voice actors create one of my favorite experiences in Disneyland.
This shot is a reminder to me of one of the moments that always gets me laughing. Pierre (the bird in the shot) says, “My profile is out of this world!” and Fritz responds that it’s “not far enough out of this world.” It’s the sort of quick humor that can sail right over an inattentive head.
There are still a few hours left in our sale. Don’t be an April fool tomorrow by missing out! hehe…
Adventureland and the Jungle Cruise always make me feel like a late nineteenth/early twentieth century British explorer about to embark on some excursion into the jungle filled with mystery, romance and, of course, adventure. Before undertaking such a journey, it’s always a good idea to stop by the trading outpost to pick up supplies and see what treasures you might find… or be led to believe you’ll find only to find that you’ll have to find them somewhere else. Whew! Still with me?
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This sign has been a favorite part of Disneyland for me for some time now. It never ceases to make me laugh. If only I could say the same of the Jungle Cruise. Kidding! I could say the same of the Jungle Cruise, only I’d be lying. Kidding again!
I better wrap this post up before I’m fed to some hungry, hungry hippos.
That feeling, you know, the one that I described before this turned into a train wreck, is what inspired the look of this picture. I don’t know if you’ve ever taken a gander at the old photos inside the Jungle Cruise queue of the original “Jungle Crew”, but that’s very much the spirit of the look I had in mind, and usually have in mind when I sit down to work on an Adventureland photo. If you didn’t enjoy this post, just remember there are a thousand others for you to not enjoy as well!
Goodnight!
On our last trip to Disneyland, we stopped by the Enchanted Tiki Room to see the Dole Whip stand. It had been closed for some sort of improvement and we were curious to find out what that might be (and maybe a little hungry for some Dole Whip). Maybe I’m slipping these days but I honestly couldn’t tell a difference. There may have been an additional cash register, but something like that seems so trivial. Perhaps I just noticed it for the first time because I was trying to find something different. And the line was uber long. Sad trombone…
Standing there wasn’t a complete miss, however. I spied this tiki mask for the first time. Do you recognize the location? When I saw it, I blurted out an awkward laugh that had Michaela looking at me quizzically. “This tiki is hiding,” I said. “It’s playing hide and tiki.”
I like to let her know how blessed she is to have a comedic husband of such high quality. Frequently. In turn, she likes to remind me of what a patient woman she is. I don’t see how the two relate.
