Frosty Morning

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Maelstrom

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Ice Forming

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It has been below zero (°C) the last couple of nights. Ice is forming making interesting patterns.

Morning Mist

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Waterdrops and Leaves

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Two angles and two different flashlights

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I shot these leaves from two different angles and using two different flashlights. And I tried many different angles for the light. I couldn't decide which light source I liked best as there were aspects of each I liked. Comments?

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Light Painting

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Bamboo Fence

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More Fall Colours

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Running

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Trying some more light painting.

Time Flows

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Experimenting some more with light painting.

Oak Bay Marina

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Sunrise at Oak Bay Marina in Victoria from a week ago.

Sunrise

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Sunrise on Willows Beach in Victoria, BC.

Silhouette

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I took this shot on my way down to Victoria. There were several posts with seagulls, most of which were catching the morning sun, but I like this one where the post is still in shadow.

Early Fall Colours

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Bamboo Forest

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I haven't taken the time to do more nighttime light painting in the last few days so I ran out just after sunset and did some light painting of a different kind. This is a shot of a bamboo planter in the backyard with a longer exposure and panning the camera. It ended up looking like a forest. I did a few quick images and really liked the way they came out. I didn't do any cropping on this one, but added a little contrast and structure enhancement, and a polarization filter to enhance the blue a little.

More light painting

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Experimented some more with light painting. I have to get a lot better at drawing stick figures, or figures of any kind.

Light painting

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We learned and practiced some light painting tonight at a camera club meeting.

Stars

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I went out to try some longer exposures tonight but there were clouds moving in. Although it added a soft feel to the images I was only able to get two shots before most of the stars were hidden. This image was 8.5 minutes long and it looks like I just got the north star in the top right. The one bright star is a point while the others are moving around it.

I will try again and change my framing to get the north star further into the image.

Click on the image to see a larger version.

Rock and Bamboo

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This morning I noticed the sun reflecting off one of our windows and onto this rock under the bamboo. So I grabbed my camera and took a few shots, but it wasn't long until the sun had moved enough that the top half of the rock was in shadow. I liked this one with the green bamboo leaves in the foreground.

Bench at night

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Stars

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I tried some shots of the stars tonight. It is amazing how much we move in two minutes and therefore end up with stars that look like hot dogs. This one was not as bad as the others, but it doesn't really show much. The three bright stars between the trees are part of the big dipper.

Fall Colours

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Nightlight

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Nighttime

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I tried a nighttime shot but didn't really like the way it came out, I will try again another night. So for today I added this effect to the image in post processing to try to make it look a little more interesting.

Flowers

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Maple Leaves

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The late afternoon sun was shining through the trees onto these maple leaves. I converted it to black and white and then tried this 'antique' filter.

Dragonflies

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I tried different effects and settings on these dragonfly images, from very stylized to a solarization effect. All the images had a very shallow depth of field so the backgrounds were blurry to begin with.

More post processing experiments

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Rain Today

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We finally had some rain today, more than just a sprinkle, after a long spell without. This is our downspout chain.

Trying something different

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I thought I would try some post processing filters and came up with these images. I couldn't decide on one and liked the way they looked together. I think they looked better larger but I couldn't include them here side by side and still have them large. So to see each one larger you will need to click on them.

Bamboo

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There is a clump of this yellow bamboo in our backyard.

One more

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I saw this shadow yesterday and decided to try again today using a tripod. The leaf behind has opened up a little more and is not quite as nicely shaped as yesterday.

Leaves

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Bee

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Leaf

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Nymph Falls

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Nymph Falls on the Puntledge River, Courtenay, BC

Took a bike ride along the Puntledge River today and stopped at these falls. The shadow caught my eye.

Caught

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I went out this morning hoping to find dewdrops again. I wanted to get a better shot of a spiderweb that I took yesterday. But there was no dew this morning.  As I was looking around I found this grass stalk that was caught.

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Dewdrops

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I think this image works better larger. Click on it to see a larger version.

Flower

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A lot has happened since my last post and I have hardly picked up my camera. After getting back from New Zealand we travelled down to Vancouver Island on a house hunting trip. Then there was all the preparation to sell our house in Edmonton and make the move. Between the garage sales, packing, giving things away, throwing things away, moving, unpacking, painting, and just settling in to a new home, I have hardly thought about taking photos.

But it feels like time to start again. I still have painting to do and boxes to unpack so it might be a slow start, but this will be a start.

Aoraki/Mt Cook

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This is a shot of Aoraki/Mt Cook from the Hooker Glacier track. With all the stopping for photos it was about 5 hours return (about 12 km) to hike to the lake at the foot of the Hooker Glacier.