Strumming

Shot at f 4.0 1/30sec +2  ISO 1600 on a tripod. Natural light but not a lot of it.

Pika

Any of you that know me well, know how much I love dogs and photographing them.  This is one of my favorite photos.....taken many years ago with film. I sat out in the snow with my grey card for ages trying to get the perfect exposure of a white dog in the snow.

Pika is a Great Pyrenees. She is a working dog on a sheep ranch in the Quesnel B.C. area and belongs to a wonderful friend of mine.

I miss film...digital is great but I have say I think film is better.

One awesome son!

Here is a picture of William that I just love. He's always game to have his photo taken but he's not always relaxed in front of the camera. Here he is chillin, relaxed and looking like a pretty cool dude. This totally captures him.
Shot at f 8.0 1/160 sec ISO 100 handheld with a 70-200 zoom.

Blue

This is a canoe at West Bay Marina. Shot at f 4.0 1/200 + 0.33 ISO 100 on a tripod. I really like it but....probably should have used a deeper depth of field to get more detail in the nose and beyond.....I wanted it to stand out a bit more. I'm really starting to love abstracts.

Victoria Gin Photo Shoot

Yesterday our photography club went to visit "Victoria Gin" a distillery on the Saanich Pennisula. WOW!!!! What a great experience, learning about stills, gin production, the still is copper and exquisitely beautiful to photograph. I wish I had a wide angle lens but I made due and got some good shots. I could have spent hours there taking photos. The light was low so a tripod was essential. At the end we got to taste the gin and a few other products they produce. I'm a gin lover from way back and nothing compares to this.
Thanks to Victoria Gin and Peter Hunt for their warm welcome to our club and a lovely visit!

Texture

               F 4.0 1/30  -0.33 sec ISO 100 and shot on a tripod.

This is a Gunnera plant....grows to be HUGE...looks like something from Jurassic Park.

Grass Series

 

F 8.0 1/400 ISO 200

Alberta Aspens

Shot at f 8.0 1/125 ISO 100. I was visiting Edmonton this past week-end and could have stayed and photographed this grove of Aspen trees all day, but it was just a few shots on the fly. Sometimes I think I'm addicted to taking pictures....everything I see is a photograph....it's a curse sometimes.

Guitar Man

This is my son, a very talented musician. He is playing his guitar here and indulging his mother, whilst I took a bunch of shots.

I intentionally overexposed this shot, converted it to B&W in PS. I desaturated it some more and erased the peripheral details just leaving his face and hair.

Shot at f 4.0 1/30 ISO 1600 on a tripod using limited natural light. The high ISO adds some nice grainy effect, at least I think that's where it came from. I'm a Photo Shop ninny.

Skunk Cabbage

I have always loved Skunk Cabbage....it is so beautiful and sensual looking. Today Penny and I went out to Thetis to photograph Trillium's and Skunk Cabbage. We were hoping for the 'golden hour' light shining behind these lovely specimens but we took the pouring rain instead.
Shot on a tripod at f 4.0 1/60 ISO 100 on Auto WB.