Spring Cleaning

While updating things a bit (doing my spring cleaning? Poor excuse to put this image in?) I have now updated both my portfolios (the links on the right) as well as some of the flickr sets. One interesting update on the flickr side of things is my set of images that have 100+ views. There are now 44 images that have over 100 views on them (on flickr), and another 10 which are in the 90's. That may not be such a big thing for many of the major flickr contenders, but I think it is pretty neat. So ... if you are looking for some pretty pictures (or at least some that have been well promoted/placed :P) check them out!

Never sneak up on a goose ... several seems ok

On my walk home yesterday afternoon (to take pictures of course) I met up with a pair of geese and their goslings on the grass. When the caught sight of me, they took off into the water. Fortunately, as I kept walking back, they were going in the same direction as I was, but in the water. Essentially I sped up a little bit and hid where they were planning on ending up, trying to get a couple good pictures of them. All the time I was doing this I couldn't get the story my dad told me as a kid, where the unfortunate child who tried to sneak up on a goose, ended up not being able to sit down for awhile. Anyways, all turned out OK here, so I guess that you should "Never sneak up on a goose, but a pair of geese and their goslings is okay." To see the rest of my photography, click here.


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Lightbox/Kylin

This is one of the three trial images taken last night from my homemade lightbox. The light isn't yet as diffuse as I would like, nor does the poster board fit perfectly in the back. I also want to add a light source on the right side when I'm taking pictures with it as well. But all in all, it is a good start. The subject here is one of the trinkets that I picked up from my summer in China. Trottier and I made a point of getting a little statue that represented each of the places that we went to. This one represented the summer palace since there was a "full sized" statue of this guy that we marvelled over. It is a Kylin (Qilin). It is a mythical creature that has different animals' body parts mixed into one and often looks like he is on fire. Despite his menacing look, he only punishes the wicked. Apparently he can walk on grass without bending a blade. To see the other two trial light box images click here. To go to the rest of my photostream, click here.


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Milky Way, Andromeda, and a Sunrise

Having stayed up all night taking pictures of fire, stars, the lake, etc. at an overnight 'observing/camping' night at one of our professors' cottage, I was rewarded with this shot. This seems to be one of the favourites among this batch. In this shot you can see the glow from the approaching sunrise, a little bit of the milky way, and on the middle right side of the image, Andromeda. Afterwards the water got ridiculously clear and produced the next shot. All in all, despite the lack of sleep, a good batch of images (I think). To see the rest of the images from this evening/morning click here. To see the rest of my photography click here.

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Fly on the Wall

Last week, I literally spend more than 20 minutes and approximately 4.5Gb of my 8Gb memory card taking pictures of a fly. I ended up with three I liked. Here is one of them. I was trying something new for the picture you see below. In order to make it a macro picture I needed a macro lens. My Sigma 17-70mm still didn't get close enough, SO ... this is an experiment that I read about on the internet. I actually held my Canon 50mm f/1.8 BACKWARDS against the body for a macro shot. Cool eh? See the two others on my flickr page here. See the rest of my pictures on my flickr photostream here.

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Navy Bay "Predators"

Yesterday I once again walked home from RMC (Well at least started to) and never got past the Navy Bay fields. Just like the Robins I saw last week, there were several different kinds of birds flying around. I spent a good hour just watching and trying to get a couple of good pictures of the two you see below. I'm pretty sure I was making one of them nervous since one of them had half a fish in his (her?) grip the whole time (I'm assuming it didn't want to take it back to the nest since I was around). To see the rest of the pictures from this set on flickr click here. For the rest of the pictures on my photostream in general, click here.

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