Category: Photography
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2 weeks ago I flew to Calgary to shoot a sales centre my agency had helped design. It was a great shoot; a challenging space with lots of monitors and lots of glass. The white balances were all over the place, and the monitors, windows and pot lights meant lots of light sources to contend…
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I’ve been to every province in Canada except Saskatchewan. There is a joke in Manitoba that if you just look west you can practically see it; it’s that flat, but I’ve always wanted to drive through the prairies. I took this photo today while flying over Saskatchewan, and I love how the horizon line and…
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Tito and I are taking off to Montreal today :) I promised I wouldn’t take my camera or computer (knitting, of course, is still coming. To do otherwise would be madness). To get my shutterbug out of my system I went out an hour before dawn this morning to snap some shots of the beautiful…
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This morning I found a snow drift high enough to attempt a vertical snow angel =D Of course, I had to take a bit of a run at it – which means it was less like making a snow angel and more like trying to make a cartoonesque Shireen-shaped-hole in the Skydome, but still. Good…
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We’ve had a hawk take up residence in the Toronto Music Garden. The little birds are not having an easy time of it, they’re not used to having a predator in their midst. Poor little buggers! I can’t deny though, it is a lovely bird.
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Recently I purchased a Lee Filter system for my camera. I was dubious as to the worth of an on-camera filter system – after all, Lightroom has a graduated filter built in where I can adjust exposure, white balance etc. However, having taken it for a walk I can honestly say that being able to…
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Just a neat photo this morning :) It’s so cold in Toronto that Lake Ontario looked like it was steaming early this morning, at the horizon line the steam and the clouds were blending into each other. The inner harbour is completely frozen. It’s just lovely!
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This photo set is from our 2011 visit to Cathedral Grove, British Columbia. Cathedral grove, or MacMillan Provincial Park contains a 157 hectare stand of very old, very large Douglas-fir trees, including one that was over 300 years old when Christopher Columbus came to North America. It’s a very special place. The thing that amazed…
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Most photographers have heard about HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography. There are lots of great sites that get into the technical nitty-gritty, but in a nutshell HDR photography is a way to even out the light in an image so you get something closer to what your eye perceived. Googling HDR photography will show you…
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Inglenook Fibers is a hand dyed fiber studio located just outside of Boston, and it’s one of the many ways that the Sisters of the Holy Nativity Convent are totally self supporting through craft. A few weeks ago one of my pen pals there, Mother Macrina, wrote to me and asked if she could use…
The Blue Brick 