Just got back from 11 days at SSR... thoughts and photos inside.

[Cee]

Beautiful pictures. Thanks for them. Can't wait to go home to SSR on July 20!

 

[figment97]

Great photos.

Didn't you see this article about cloud ads?
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...ads_29nat.ART.State.Edition1.4d61526.html?npc

that is awesome. but according to the article, maximum width is 4 feet... this was a little bigger.

that said, it would be very cool to see these in action.

thanks for the article.

and for those interested in the lense... it was just the 35-80 that came with the camera. i have a 300 but liked the smaller one for disney. i love the alpha. i still have some work to do learning all the settings and what they do, but i started getting the hang of it down at disney. good luck.

i'll try to post more pics sometime...

 

[figment97]

SSR

Norway

America

SSR

The ball

One of my favorites... oldest at legoland

SSR

The castle

Visit to the boardwalk

Star Wars weekend

 

[cocowum]

Wow! you pics are FANTASTIC!

 

[madcoco]

Ditto. Thanks for sharing them!

 

[Maribell]

Thanks for sharing! Your pictures are awesome! I am wishing I was there right now!

 

[dianeschlicht]

When you see a Mickey head cloud like that, you KNOW you are in the magic of Disney!

 

[Wedgeh]

I loved those photos, thanks for sharing them!

 

[stlocke]

Love, love, love the photos! The Mickey cloud and the first Castle pic are GREAT! I experienced the same bus issues as you did....we were there from June 20-June 30!!!! Hope they fix those issues before we visit next time. I felt like we spent hours on the bus each day!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

We are booked at SSR for 7 nights next month. The bus thing is absolutely killing me. Can you please tell me what time you were typically trying to get on a bus from SSR to a park in the morning? We are HUGE on being at the parks at opening. If I need to be at the bus stop at 7 AM to get there by 8 AM (or 8 AM to be there by 9 AM) then that's what I will do. I do NOT want to rent a car. But I have one reserved in case the buses are so bad that we can't work with them.

DH has a Sony Alpha 100. He'll be using it for the first time at WDW in August. I'll have to make sure he looks at this thread!

 

[figment97]

Love, love, love the photos! The Mickey cloud and the first Castle pic are GREAT! I experienced the same bus issues as you did....we were there from June 20-June 30!!!! Hope they fix those issues before we visit next time. I felt like we spent hours on the bus each day!

Cool. We might have passed each other. We were in The Springs, room 3221, which is the farthest building to the right (at The Springs).


"We are booked at SSR for 7 nights next month. The bus thing is absolutely killing me. Can you please tell me what time you were typically trying to get on a bus from SSR to a park in the morning? We are HUGE on being at the parks at opening. If I need to be at the bus stop at 7 AM to get there by 8 AM (or 8 AM to be there by 9 AM) then that's what I will do. I do NOT want to rent a car. But I have one reserved in case the buses are so bad that we can't work with them.

DH has a Sony Alpha 100. He'll be using it for the first time at WDW in August. I'll have to make sure he looks at this thread!"


We were at the bus stops at different times of the day, so it would be hard to answer your question. Mainly, we tried to get on around 8 or 9 in the morning. The buses start running 1 hour prior to park openings, but we couldn't get out of bed that early.

Hope hubby likes the Alpha. I sure do.

Thanks to all for the positive feedback on the pictures.

 

[Corinne]

Fabulous pictures! Thanks for sharing!

 

[tea pot]

WOW
Boy you are good
Thanks so much for the photos.... Is this your day job???
Thanks so much for sharing.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

We were at the bus stops at different times of the day, so it would be hard to answer your question. Mainly, we tried to get on around 8 or 9 in the morning. The buses start running 1 hour prior to park openings, but we couldn't get out of bed that early.

Hope hubby likes the Alpha. I sure do.

Thanks to all for the positive feedback on the pictures.

Thanks! We rarely sleep past 6 AM at WDW. In fact, I am usually up closer to 5 AM. We're at breakfast no later than 7 AM unless we are eating in the park. This is the one area where I am completely inflexible - we HAVE to be at the park no later than the minute it opens. The bus thing is giving me stress.

DH has the Alpha and an Olympus Evolt 410. Apparently he is bringing both. Good thing SSR is pretty to look at because we may have LOTS of time to take pics of it while we wait for buses!

 

[disneyfinatics]

Great pictures! I really love the one of the castle. I can never seem to capture the color.

If you contact Disney about the buses they will call you. It took about 2 weeks, but they called me today. We had noticed people using the SSR bus to Congress Park to get to DTD. They weren't resort guests. We were there in Jan. the buses were slow & standing room only for SSR. I was pleased to see that they will respond to your e-mail.

 

[jdg345]

Thank you for sharing!

 

[disneymom8589]

I LOVE your pictures. There are some very creative shots! The picture of the Mickey cloud is unbelievable!!

 

[Markeymouses]

Those pictures are fabulous!!!!
We leave in 20 days for SSR (1st DVC stay) I didn't think I could be any more excited than I already am....then I saw your pics great job thanks a million for posting!