Leaving the farm first thing this morning, we saw this.
Nerdy details: Panorama of 6 photos, each 50mm, 1/80 second, f/1.8, ISO 800, stitched together using Hugin.
Sunrise this morning
panorama
The river is high
But I guess 155mm of rain in a single day—honestly, in about 6 hours—and then another, what, 30mm in about half an hour a couple days later will do that.
Taken on a 20km bike ride on Canada Day.
I’m glad that’s not my truck 
A bug sunning itself on the bridge 
The storm knocked down some trees
The white lines in the image above show roughly where the water should be.
More Brenizers
Before it got too hot today (34°C again, with a humidex of 38), I hopped on my bike. I took it easy—it was already about 25°C at 9:30 in the morning—and I took some photos of BU.
I also took a few more Brenizer-style panoramas, as practice. One didn’t turn out, but three seemed all right. (There’s some weirdness to the pole behind the deer statue, but I’m posting it anyways.)
As always: if you want prints of any of the photos, here or elsewhere on my site, let me know.
A ’55 Chevy
I snapped about a dozen photos of a ’55 Chevy that was sitting on the street at a ball game this evening, and stitched them together, Brenizer-method style.
Brenizer bike
I’ve been reading lately about the Brenizer method (something I’ve apparently been doing already, without knowing that’s what it’s called). Essentially, you take a bunch of photos of a still subject, then stitch them together into one image. The resulting panorama will have the depth-of-field (ie, background blur) of a single photo taken with a much, much wider lens.
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