Information office, where we were treated to an abundance of information about the heritage buildings, good restaurant ideas, and hiking trails. Street, and can be completed within a couple of hours, even when walking slowly. Dawson, and he will set you up with an unbeatable selection of delectable dainties. Try the organic chocolate coated in wax, so that the chocolate bar will not turn into a melted mess in the heat. Or, ask them to create you one of their famous custom gift baskets. Nelson is known as a hub for sophisticated and very healthy food that, surprisingly to some, does not sacrifice taste whatsoever. Nelson meals, we felt the urge to burn off some calories. The view alone is worth the climb, and should not be problem for kids, if you have any. The adjacent sports complex also includes tennis courts, a number of sports fields, and a free community exercise gym, complete with dozens of different types of weight machines that actually use only your own body weight to create resistance. The next morning, it was high time that we hot-tailed it out of there, since we had a schedule to keep. But, i was hard-pressed to leave. However, what left the most lasting impression on me was the people. They were a diverse mixture of young and old, hippies and yuppies, and many different cultures. Every person that we encountered, whether they were working in a store or just walking down the street, was jovial, talkative, and genuine in a way that big-city folk find foreign and almost uncomfortable at first. This post is the first in an occasional series in which i will describe the making of a photograph, from both a technical and artistic standpoint. As i roamed the center taking photos, i spotted the kids all lined up on a curb in the courtyard, reading. The linear composition and the striking yellow wall made for a pretty obvious opportunity. If i had moved closer to the subjects, more distortion would have been obvious. As you can see in the first several photos, many of the kids were aware of me taking their photo, and were posing, goofing, or self conscious. For all of the shots, i manually selected an auto-focus point, using a point below the central focus point which would line up on or near the face of one of the central kids. This would take advantage of the nice contrast between the dark hair and the lighter face to ensure proper auto-focus.