Part-time prevaricator
I’ve only just today heard about the superstition that saying “Rabbit rabbit” on the first day of the month brings luck. How long were you planning to keep this from me?
Does it count if there’s a chubby bunny chillin’ in your yard for a few hours on the 1st?
My goals for this past week’s writing retreat were:
Let’s see how I did.
So, on balance, that was a good week.
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Monday, I:
This reinforces my previous experience with the Lensbaby lens: it’s great for macro shots, like the one with the single stalk of flowers against the grass, but in most other uses it reduces most if not all of the frame to an impressionistic blur. If that’s your aesthetic, great, but more often than not I’m disappointed in the photos I take with it.
It’s still fun to play with, though.
The bluer photo of the comet, the close-up, was taken with my 50mm f/1.8 lens. Look closely, and you’ll find I caught both tails. You might have to view the photo at full size.
As always: if you’re interested in prints of any of these photos, let me know. We’ll see what we can work out.
Last night, about 11:30 PM, I set up my camera in the spare room upstairs, to try and catch some lightning during the storm.
The header image above is a composite of about 15 frames where I captured lightning bolts. Below are two of the individual frames.
And here’s a video of the whole show (10s frames at 6 frames a second means that one second of video represents one minute of real time).
I spotted some lovely flowers in a back lane on today’s bike ride. Since I had my camera, I stopped and snapped some photos. Enjoy!
Another weekend, another 27 km on the bike, another smattering of photos.
Got a preference on this one? Near, or far?
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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I don’t recall ever being on ACC’s North Hill campus since, well, since ACC took it over. On my ride today, I decided to stop in and see the sights.
The main building, pictured above, was part of the Brandon Mental Health Centre before the grounds were purchased by the College.
Behind that building I found a lovely little park-like space.
Also back there was a chimney tower so tall it took three photos to capture it all, stitched together using hugin.
I also found a secondary building where a couple small trees appear to have taken root in the brickwork.
I was quite enamoured of the shadows in the one photo, and I can’t decide if I prefer it in colour, or in black and white. What’s your preference?
I took my camera on a 27-km bike ride around town. Here’s what I got.
I biked about 12km this afternoon, and I took my camera along with me. I saw some geese (so many geese) and what I think was a red-winged blackbird.
