Showing posts with label chalet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chalet. Show all posts
Final group from the fall stream pictures
Ok ... here are the final pictures from the fall at the cottage. We can now move on!
Fall Colours and Streams
The next few days (ok ... several) of posts are going to be of the cottage and of fall colours.
Cottage Landscapes from a Kayak
It is one thing taking landscape pictures at the cottage. It is an entirely different thing leaning over your kayak with your expensive equipment to try and get the angle right for an image. All in all I think the couple of images below turned out well.
The Quack Made Him Croak
Here another couple of "wildlife" images from a weekend up at the cottage. Nothing special except that the frog image took way longer than it should have to get since they kept on jumping out of the way of the kayak ... go figure!
Action Montage
Getting tired of watching GuynS jump off the dock at the cottage? Well that seemed to be the bulk of my shots from that weekend! Don't worry though, this is the last post in this series of GuynS leaping. There are a few more wildlife and landscape shots to come though ...
The three images below are one in the same. I wanted to put together a series of beginning to end of GuynS' leaps. Unfortunately, I found that a couple of those images deserved some face time of their own. Below is the montage of four images and two on which I loved his body language / expressions.
The second image below is my favourite since it has spot on focus and since GuynS is 100% focused directly on me / the camera. The third image below is SLIGHTLY off on the focus but I loved the expression on his face and the placement of the ears.
A Leap and A Cackle
As promised here is another one of the the famous flying GuynS and the second one is of him looking a little to happy with himself!
GuynS Leaping Off the Dock
For the next few posts we can finally move away from the Papanack Zoo and back to cottage pictures from this summer. I hope you like animal action shots because the next few posts are of GuynS leaping off of the dock!
Nighttime Chalet View
Here is another image (although this time at ground level) of the view from the chalet at night.
View From the Chalet Roof
This Canada Day weekend was spent up at the cottage. It was one of the first night's for a long while that I have been up there and it has been clear enough to merit bringing the camera out for some night photography. The interesting thing about taking pictures is how different a scene looks from different angles. You end up trying so many different points of view of essentially the same subject, that when you finally get the "right one", you know. That is what happened with this image. The pictures I was getting from down by the dock were decent, but it just wasn't working for me. I've already taken hundreds of pictures at the cottage and I needed something different. The image below is my favourite of the evening AND it is a completely different angle from any other image I have made at the cottage. Where did I get a shot like this from? Yes of course, I scrambled with my camera, tripod and all up on the roof of the cottage to get a star trail image of the lake, boat, dock and even the group around the fire.
View of Lac Ste-Rose from the Chalet Roof
View of Lac Ste-Rose from the Chalet Roof
Morning Photography
Here is another continuation of the foggy morning at the cottage. The second one one I find appealing due to the calm nature of the water and the fact that unless you purposely look for it you may miss the fact that the bottom of the image is in fact the sand under the water. This one is similar to another I took during a summer morning at the cottage.
Reflections and early morning fog
Crystal Clear Water in the Morning
Reflections and early morning fog
Crystal Clear Water in the Morning
Foggy Morning = Black and White
Ok so maybe the title of this post isn't ALWAYS true, but this foggy morning just screamed black and white to me. Even when I tried to edit it into a colour image in post I still couldn't bring myself to finish it in anything other than B&W. This is the same foggy morning as the last two posts with GuynS portraits and here are the three black and white landscapes that arose from the mist.
Foggy Morning
Foggy Lake in the Morning
Early Morning Reflections
Foggy Morning
Foggy Lake in the Morning
Early Morning Reflections
Tubing
One of the excitements of summers up at the cottage is tubing. The last time we went up we often had three and sometimes even four tubes being pulled behind the boat. Depending on the crowd, it is often less a fight to stay on the tube as much as it is a fight to knock the other guys off theirs!
Portrait of Fun
Mid Wipe Out
Portrait of Fun
Mid Wipe Out
Nightscapes of the Chalet
As promised here are the remaining nightscapes that I have from a few weeks ago at the chalet. I really need th bring/make something (barn door tracker, etc) to get a longer exposure on the milky way. I figure that option is more likely right now than getting a camera with higher ISO levels or buying faster glass! The first image below is the "standard" starscape over the lake shot. I enjoy the second image since it takes you a second to realize there is something funny going on with the "smudge" on the eight hand side. It is not in fact another smeared cloud like the one on the right but the "smudging" of the milky way from the long exposure. Finally, the third image is similar to one ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/scerakor/3789100448) taken approximately one year ago. This one instead has more emphasis on foreground elements.
Milky Way Over the Chalet
Clouds, Stars, and Milky Way Streaking over the Night Sky
Star Trailing Over a Busy Campfire
Milky Way Over the Chalet
Clouds, Stars, and Milky Way Streaking over the Night Sky
Star Trailing Over a Busy Campfire
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