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Lurkerz on my Properties!
I thought today would be the perfect day for me to go out and try and take some snowy-snowflake photos! WRONG! I can’t shoot for shit – it was just this side of too dark in Ottawa so, though I pumped my ISO, I started to drop my aperture creating too shallow a dof for […]
Did you know I went to Thailand once, for almost a month? True story.
I promised Barb that I’d actually take some photos this weekend as long as she would (she just got herself a Canon Rebel XSI and was put off by all the snow). So I said we’d both buck-up and head on outside, catching up on photography time lost during the shorter winter days. Here’s mine […]
I “get” snowblowers. Snow is heavy and sucks to shovel and snowblowers deal with it efficiently and effectively. It’s leaf-blowers that I am at odds with – they just blow the leaves somewhere else, just as easily as the wind, in fact they are wind – gas powered wind – which I think is kinda […]
I’m trying to get a few more winter images into my portfolio, so I figured that there was supposed to be snow today – I’ll take my camera out. Probably about 20 minutes into my walk to work I was thoroughly douched with snow and wasn’t so much interested in taking blury white-out photos as […]
I’m impressed – landlord says “no parking”Smart Car Owner says “oh yeah? I make a spot.”
Obviously the second in my series of archive dug outs – and thematically also one at Dow’s Lake – maybe I’ll call these “Dows Docks”. Anyways, I wonder if, when Quinn gets older, I’ll be that lame dad who tells jokes that maybe people “get” but just aren’t funny. Actually, maybe I’m already that kinda […]
Instead of taking my time off to go outside, see the world, and take all those photos I complain about never taking, I spent all of yesterday watching the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings back-to-back. “I’d give anything for a whiff of old toby…”
Happy New Year.
So everyone’s doing these retrospective NYE blog posts and I’m pretty unprepared (as usual) so I’m pulling up this photo of Quinn with his new teeth pokin’ through- not quite the baby new year with the sash and diaper (like I said, I’m unprepared – maybe that could be a resolution for me!?). This was […]
I did a photoshoot last night with a wonderful family: the Carlson’s. I was hoping to use the lit-up Parliament as a backdrop, but it wasn’t quite as bright as I had hoped, though it does add some great red and blue tones in the background, it’s not quite as dramatic in the portraits as […]
I’ve been organizing my Lightroom 2 catalogue all day (yaaaay), and I have to say – I take a lot of crap photos. Though I did take a lot of Ottawa, especially this summer, that warrant a second look. What I’m trying to say is that I plan on doing some archive diving in the […]
Ottawa’s had some crap weather of late; that, and the holiday season, have kept me indoors for four (is it five now?) days straight. I’ve grown a beard and am oddly serene and at ease. However, I am starting to look at the family as if they’re food because a man can only eat so […]
Quinn’s first Christmas, my second in Ottawa, and the first in our new house. This is his first ornament. There’s something about Christmas time that makes me want to process HDR images, it’s probably the surreal nature of the whole time – I mean really – who goes through all this trouble EVERY freakin year? […]
Well, I realized that macro photography teaches you one thing: my place is dusty. Lesson learned – clean my stuff before I shoot it.
WAIT! I have something for Christmas – though this idea is blatantly stolen borrowed from Wasted Photos and Detour, basically because I wanted to feel included…So really you should just see their pics because they’re much better than mine. Peace and love, and expect some MACRO shots very soon because Mel Quinn got me the […]
I *heart* ♥ Lightroom 2.2. Seriously, Adobe’s Lightroom gives me flexibility Photoshop and Bridge never did. Take the above image for example – originally a cast-off for me (most of my Icelandic pictures were because I underexposed my whole trip “DOI”). But I decided to scroll through my Lightroom catalogue and just run some basic […]
Sorry if you’re reading this in a feed – hopefully I haven’t blown your reader up. I wanted to show this shot WIDE because of all the great detail: A jogger running along the Rideau Canal, a couple out for a stroll, two people talking, one having laid down his bike and, dead-centre, a girl […]
You know when people say kids grow up fast? Well it’s true. I’ve had a son now since April, and he’s already showing signs of being a little man – an actual person – no longer an eating, sleeping, pooping machine (like his dad). Quinn reaches out for his mom, tucks his head into my […]
There’s a transit strike on in Ottawa right now, and while it doesn’t affect me directly (I’m fortunate enough to be able to walk to work) it certainly has had it’s impact on the city. Commerce is down, people aren’t shopping at the mall, and the roads are congested all day. I actually walked by […]
I decided to take the DSLR out with me today. I have an overbearing jacket that doesn’t go well with a pro-sized digital camera. Lately I’ve been coveting the LX3 just as a means of getting great shots without the weight restrictions (not to mention the screaming absurdity of “HEY I’M TAKING A PICTURE HERE!”) […]
How many people go out there and actually shoot at dusk and dawn – Magic Hour?I mean, I tend to use a bazillion more of my pics when I do shoot then – but practically? I got a job, and a baby, and a MAD woman at home (mad if I don’t get my sweet […]
As a Canadian I feel that it is currently my duty to comment on the weather: Freezing, Snow, More Snow, LOTS OF SNOW, Rain and warmth – what the fuck’s up with that? As Brad’s been saying “Mother Nature, you bitch.”
