As we draw ever closer to winter and our inevitable first snowfall, I thought I’d take a last look at my bare backyard.
Archive for the ‘photography’ category
My dreamy backyard
November 29th, 2009To err is human…
November 28th, 2009Thought I’d post a picture a day starting today. Most of them will probably be iPhone pics, but you never know.
Happy man with hat
November 21st, 2009This man was one of the performers at Disney World this January.
This is another entry in Carmi Levy’s Thematic Photographic: Orange. Here’s how it works.
A summertime trip to Ottawa
November 17th, 2009This was taken on a trip to Ottawa over the summer. Actually this breathtaking view of Canada’s parliament buildings in Ottawa was taken from across the river at the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, QC. The outside of the museum is chock full of amazing pictures like this one. 
This is another entry in Carmi Levy’s Thematic Photographic: Travel. Here’s how it works.
Thematic Photographic 75: Travel
November 11th, 2009This is my entry in Carmi Levy’s Thematic Photographic. Here’s how it works.
I have a lot of pictures that would fit in the category of travel, so I may post some more. Here’s the first one. It’s a picture of Highway 20 in Montreal’s West Island, around Ste. Anne de Bellevue or Baie D’Urfé. This is one of my favourite pics of mine and one that I have sitting on my home office desk.
Here are my Flick pictures tagged “road.”
Here are all my Flickr pictures.
Here’s my photoblog.
Thematic Photographic: Red
November 4th, 2009This is my entry in Carmi Levy’s Thematic Photographic. This week’s theme is “red.” Here’s how it works.
Here are some more of my “red” tagged pictures.
Here are all my Flickr pictures.
Here’s my photoblog.
Itchy
February 1st, 2009Haven’t taken my camera out since Florida and I’m starting to feel really itchy to make some great pictures. I’m going to have to go on an expedition pretty soon. Problem is, it’s cold and I don’t have the proper clothing to be out for long periods of time at -20 (or -35 windchill.) I guess I’ll have to pick up some gloves, a hat and a neckwarmer or scarf. I’m not even sure what I want to shoot. Any suggestions?
6 Tips for getting great pictures at Disney World
January 25th, 2009So, you’ve got the family all set and ready to go. You’ve packed the dSLR and the point and shoot. You’ve got the towels, the bathing suits, the wads of cash you’ll need for all the Disney t-shirts, puzzles, mugs and Spiderman snow globes you know your 8-year-old will beg you for.
But, what about the pictures.
Sure there are the mandatory shots of your kids and Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Shrek. The ones of the little one throwing up after that Woody Woodpecker roller coaster she just had to go on. But, what about the cool ones. That one great shot you know is hiding somewhere behind the castle at Magic Kingdom, or on Animal Kingdom’s safari.
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How to handle all your family pictures from Christmas
December 30th, 2008
Highway 417, Ontario
I just got back from a short Christmas trip with the family to the in-laws and in the three days we were gone, I must have taken about 500 pictures.
Yikes! What to do with them all.
I started off by posting the most interesting ones to my Flickr account, but most of my shots will be of little interest to the general Flickr public.
I will go through those (mostly of the family/kids) and crop them, fix any red eye and clean them up
before posting them not on Flickr but somewhere else, most likely Picasa. That way I spare my Flickr contacts shots they would consider boring, while giving family members a place to look at and download any of the pictures they would consider interesting.
Simple solution. Have you got a better one?
Professionalism at a mall photo studio
December 5th, 2008
Just returned from a photo session with my extended family at a studio called Magenta at our local mall. I’m not quite sure what I was expecting, but I was quite pleased with the professionalism of the photographer and assistant, not to mention the quality of the final product. It was the first time we’ve had pictures taken since I took up photography as a hobby.
I wouldn’t have noticed (or cared) before I got my camera, but I did take note of the camera being used. An Olympus E3.
We were supposed to have a picture taken of all seven grandkids to give my mother on her birthday in January. Two of the kids were under three and so that posed a bit of a problem, since they spent most of the session crying. The photographer and her assistant, both young ladies in their early twenties, tried their darndest with the kids, without once showing signs of the frustration you knew they must have been feeling.
