Lunch at the Olde Hansa Restaurant

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Lunch at the Olde Hansa Restaurant.

Photographed in Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia.

Image: GrrlScientist, 22 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)

This isn't the best picture I've ever taken, but most of the lighting was provided by candlelight. The interior of the building was quite dark, which made it almost impossible to get a sharply focused image without using a flash (and you know how much I hate flash).

Candlelight.

Photographed in Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia.

Image: GrrlScientist, 22 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)

When you order a beer in this restaurant, they don't mess around!

A tankard of beer brewed in the traditional Estonian way.

Photographed in Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia.

Image: GrrlScientist, 22 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)

After an appetizer of jerked wild boar meat, dinner arrived. Flash photography allowed me to get a good picture, but unfortunately, it totally washed all the color out of the image, so you'll have to believe me when I say that it looked and tasted delicious.

Dinner.

Photographed in Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia.

Image: GrrlScientist, 22 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)

After the meal was over, I ended up playing with my camera a little;

Photographed in Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia.

Image: GrrlScientist, 22 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)

I like this image (above) because the candles on the tables lined up into a nearly perfect straight line.

Photographed in Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia.

Image: GrrlScientist, 22 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)

This photograph was taken at the top of the stairway next to the bathroom. I like this image because of the contrast between dark and light, straight and curved lines, and black, white and orange and that lovely subtle yellow on the window sill.

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