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I thought saints were born saints, I looked in the dirt and found wisdom is learnt through a costly process of success and failure.
Making some quick block books to fil the shelves. My thinking is the buyer can toss these out as they fill the shelves with individual books.
I was late for an appointment so took this as I was heading to my car. I thought this could be a good test of how the camera handles the sun in the frame. Really pretty good I would say. Just a dot of flare and little loss of contrast.
I hadn't took the pen out for a while so i figured i would switch it up and take out the epl-1 for a quick session :-) Was a fun, last minute and random shoot that went very well except for the fact that i got home and realized i was shooting in jpeg the whole time! lol Oh well!
Zuiko 35-100mm f2
Olympus epl-1
Shot @ 90mm (180mm equivalent )
f2
Almost on the spur of the moment, I decided to join friends yesterday afternoon for a birding walk. The weather was so perfect, especially compared to the two consecutive snowstorms we had on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, that damaged thousands of trees in the city! After a quick look for birds along the avenue of trees near Fish Creek Provincial Park headquarters, we drove down to the Boat Launch area and from there we walked south along the Bow River. The Ospreys were flying near the river ad we saw one of them carrying a fish to take back to their nest. We saw 30 bird species, but nothing close enough for photos. After an enjoyable walk, a few of us called in at Tim Horton's for coffee and a snack.
From there, I called in at a different part of the park and watched a family of Beavers swimming in their pond. While I was waiting, hoping that they might appear, so many American Robins flew from branch to branch in the nearby trees and bushes, sometimes landing, like this colourful male, on the rocks at the edge of the pond. I always feel that Robins are so much taken for granted. Eventually, after a long wait, the Beaver's appeared - this adult, who crossed the path where I was standing, took me off guard, as I had my camera well zoomed. This huge animal walked faster than I was expecting, so it's not the greatest photo. Better than almost all my photos taken of them yesterday, though, as the light was quickly fading and the pond area was too dark. Hope your photos came out much better than mine, Phil! Such a treat to watch this family, especially the young ones. We were amazed, at one moment, when an old wooden pallet started moving in the pond and blocked a small passageway between the banks. One Beaver was pulling this discarded structure all on its own. I wonder if they had originally found it washed up nearby, after the Alberta Flood of the Century last year (2013).
BNSF 2745 leads the Buck Local north through Louisville on a late August evening. 2745 was only on the Buck for about 3 days before being pulled off due to loading issues. Its replacement would be a Dash-840BW.
A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic locomotive crew takes a quick break atop Cumbres Pass after helping the daily passenger train climb the four percent grade. In a few minutes, the crew will cut off their helper locomotive, turn on the wye, and head back for Chama.
Quick, let's get out of here! I spotted this Red Kite roosting in a tree. I couldn't get the camera on him quickly enough before he took off, but I really liked the wing shape he created.
"I win!", came a singsong voice as two cats came to a screeching halt inside the room.
"Did not", came a disappointed voice close behind. "I just stopped quicker".
139 photos of the sunset merged into one image. The clouds were moving a little faster than I'd like, making the streaks they painted in the sky a little rough. I prefer smoother streaks, which can be achieved with a shorter interval between shots, but I would have to switch to JPEG format instead of RAW, and I don't really want to do that.
I wish they would make the image writing buffer larger.
Quick category sort is complete. Will fine sort what needs fully sorted for next month and put the rest to the side and sort that out if there is time, other wise it will be put on hold for a bit.
Lightning scared the heck out of me as a kid but as I grew older it became a source of fascination. A desire to capture one of the most powerful events in this world was an original driving force behind taking up photography.
Over the last few summers I've waited night after night for a storm to roll through so I could get those long exposures clicking away to capture its splendor. This year things are a bit different. Adding a 10 stop ND to my kit allows me to do the same thing in broad daylight. The question still remained, would a flash of lightning be bright enough to show up through the nearly black glass? Well this shot proves the answer to be a resounding YES!!!
Pulpit Pond, continued.
For details, view large.
For fun, rotate the screen 90 degrees clockwise. :-)
"Oh, I can't believe it," I said as we pulled into the driveway, "the sun is almost down, and I still don't have a photo for the day."
"Look!" she said. "The horses are out! Quick you grab your camera, and I'll get the carrots!"
On 08/02/20 I headed to Derby station to see a couple of light locos. The first was DRS 57301 working the 0M59 Kilmarnock CE Sdgs to Leicester LIP move. This was unusual in that it travelled to Crewe via the WCML then across to Stoke and North Stafford Jn, but instead of going via Castle Donington (requiring no reversal), it came up to Derby and turned before heading across to Spondon to continue south. Very odd.