These vines fascinate me and they are on several areas of the parking garages around the building where I work. I think it’s the contrast of the organic shapes with the lines of the concrete, and yet the vines themselves are just lines this time of year as though they were drawn onto the scene [...]
Another walk on the trails around work today. This is on the other side of the main campus from my building so it took a bit of time to get over there. I felt like I was forcing the photos today and it shows. This construction zone sign seemed so incongruous among the trees and [...]
I am glad that there are such rich photographic opportunities within a few minutes’ walk from my office else I would taking a lot of pictures of objects around the house given the short days this time of year. I do hope one day to be able to reach the state of sensitized sympathy that [...]
We woke up to snow again today. And, as usual, I walked around the yard and took a few quick pictures. I’m not sure why I take pictures whenever it snows except that wherever I have lived, snow has been rare and it was just what we did when I was growing up. Today’s pictures, [...]
This wall is near our basement and shaded by this huge camellia bush–tree, really–and the light there is sometimes dappled, sometimes streaked, but always subtle and lovely. I didn’t capture what I wanted here, which was the way the moss on top of the wall just seemed to glow in the dark rainy day. But [...]
This was one of several shots I took experimenting with an umbrella, backdrops, reflectors, the base, and even a gel over a flash for the background, and compared it to the results from the standard way to shoot this with a light tent. There is plenty of info about how I set things up and [...]
Dawn was still in Calgary. I was still sick. But I was feeling a little better and I was playing around with some of my flashes, inspired by the Strobist blog and group on Flickr. Maya was patient with me as I played around and took a lot of experimental pictures of her.
I liked the [...]
I was sick with food poisoning this day and didn’t do much. Even Maya was thwarted by the rain.
I remember shooting several pictures like this and noticing that, depending on how she turned her head or where I moved, her ears either lined up with the railing supports or were between them. I liked the [...]
Maya watches from The Grooming Spa. With Dawn in Calgary, The Grooming Spa provided day care for Maya while I was at work.
This one had potential but I didn’t spend enough time framing it (and Maya probably wouldn’t have held that pose much longer anyway).
Shooting and processing notes Another shot with the [...]
Dawn gets ready to go to Calgary to help Rae move into her new condominium. Dawn isn’t the only one who is sad.
She doesn’t like this picture of her but the obvious sadness in her face makes this picture for me.
Shooting and processing notes I messed around with the saturation, [...]