God's Country Continued

Sometimes the photo gods smile on us...I was intrigued by some texture & tone contrast shots with a group of old birch trees (the first image) when suddenly a male Cardinal with full crest landed for all of about 5 seconds to add a nice splash of colour and then was gone. The other image is of my wife and her niece throwing stones off the dock...a storybook moment that was there briefly and then gone, (likewise I added some post-processing Orton effect to give it that storybook feel.)

Panoramas

Have you ever been someplace and the magnitude of the view begged for some method of capturing your entire peripheral vision to even begin to do the scene justice? Well, photo-stitching is one method to try and solve that problem. These are a few of my favourite panoramas which were made by stitching together 3 or 4 different shots of the same scene where I set the camera in place and then pan left to right overlapping each of the images to be stitched together later.

Creeks & Streams

I love water....lakes, oceans, rivers, creeks and streams. I am fortunate to live near the Grand River and the trail system that runs beside it. I was out on my bike this week with camera strapped to my side and stopped to explore this creek that runs behind our subdivision. Here are a couple shots done in HDR (high dynamic range) which is one of my favourite techniques - I should probably blog about that at some point.

A Canadian in San Francisco

So I readily admit that the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco in general have been photographed so many times that it is probably impossible to find a new perspective or composition. Despite that being the case, San Fran is a great city and the Golden Gate is a compelling structure that just begs to be photographed over and over again...so here are my measly images to add to the pile.

Something about Silhouettes

Let me make it clear from the start that I love silhouettes! I find them dramatic and emoting so here are a few of my favourites the past couple years.