Summer-time in Waterloo Region

Ahh, summer! The season of blue skies, big big clouds, beautiful flowers and never-ending construction! :-)

God's Country

One my favourite places is in a forest and my favourite forests are up in Muskoka (aka God's Country!) The first two images are from a weekend visit to my brother/sister-in-law's cottage on Muskoka Lake and the third is from that creek that runs in the forest behind our subdivision. It is the 2nd image I've taken that will hopefully be part of a 4 image=4 season collage of that location.

Something for my wife

My wife's favourite flowers are tulips and I wanted to create an image specifically for her. She has, after all, been tolerant of my photographic obsessions so it's the least I could do! :-) In the Trio image, I had just started thinking about different arrangements for the tulips when I was struck by the lighting emphasis on the front three in contrast to the rest of the bouquet. The inspiration for the other arrangement comes from da Vinci's "Last Supper" and his composition of the disciples across the table. So I imagined if Leonardo arranged flowers they probably looked like this! :-)

Easter Lillies

It's been awhile since I've set up any still-life studio shots and I had a real itch to "shoot something" tonight. As I was looking around the house for something interesting, I noticed my wife's Easter Lily was in full bloom and seemed to be taunting me to try and photograph it. These are the three resulting images from this self imposed assignment. I can't decide which one I like best.