Trillium

 

Shot this at Thetis Lake today. There are billions of Trilliums out there in every configuration you can imagine. The light was not so great and I didn't have my tripod. This was handheld with my 50mm lens f 1.8 1/250 ISO 100.

Grass Series #1

I find grass infinitely interesting to photograph. So may colours, textures, personalities....yes, I did write personalities!! I'm a gardener as well as a photographer.
Shot at f 8.0 1/40 -0.33 ISO 100  WB of 'cloudy'.

White

I love white!
Here is a shot from a shoot I did with Penny today at Government House. The wind was blowing these delicate blossoms all over the place but we persisted and I managed to get this shot at a fast shutter speed.
Shot at f 4.0 1/2000 ISO 800.
Spring has sprung at Government House!

Venetian Mask

 

Shot at f3.5 1/200 ISO100 

I'm not sure as to whether or not I should take the price tag out?

March Rain

Shot out at Island View Beach, late afternoon in the pouring rain from my car window. I love this tree. This isn't the first time I've shot it...I have quite a few. This photo captures the mood I was going for, melancholic.
Shot in RAW at f 4.0 1/640 -0.67 ISO 400  in the rain. Tweaked a bit in PS...WB and sharpened.
My friend Mimi suggested converting it to B&W so I have posted that along with it. The tree looks more interesting with a lighter sky in the B&W....the 'rain' feel is gone though

Yellow Tulip

Shot at f 4.0 1/500 +0.33 ISO 100. Natural light from a north window. Adjusted levels in PS and high pass sharpening. In the future I'll move to a deeper depth of field on these flower shots. No tripod on this one...lazy me...I just saw this lovely light , grabbed my camera and some reflectors and started shooting.

Seamus

He isn't Irish but his name is. Here is Seamus a 9 month old Black Lab with his Dad behind him. He's got a bit of the Devil in him but adorable none the less.
Shooting black dogs ain't easy. Well I have to say shooting dogs isn't easy period. Black dogs and white dogs are a challenge. I used AEB ( automatic exposure bracketing) 1 full stop to get this exposure and then adjusted the the mid tones in PS to get him perfectly black with the detail in his face....all that saliva!!!
Shot at f 4.0 1/100 ISO 400 on a cloudy day with my 70-200 zoom on 106.0mm.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Daffodil fields

This shot was taken 6 days after the "Snow Day" post...this is what Victoria usually looks like in March. It was pouring rain when I took this shot.
Shot at f 8.0 1/125 ISO 400.

Walled city of Siena

Everywhere we went in Italy there was fog....as a photographer I felt that there was some divine intervention happening....as it makes for such beautiful lighting and mood. This was a stones throw from our B&B.
f 7.1 1/640 ISO 400 on a 50mm lens, shot at about 8am.

This second shot has been Photoshopped. My photo buddy SD has been teaching me about 'Levels' and 'High Pass Sharpening' and here is a practice piece. Which do you like better? Different feels to them!

Samson

Taken today at the dog park...this is Samson, a 10 month old Samoyed. He is such a funny dog and a good friend to Beau, our Yellow Lab puppy. There'll be more photos of Samson as he is so photogenic.
Shot at f 4.0 1/2000 ISO 400 and converted to B&W in Photoshop.