Month: November 2018

I was able to do some of my photography class homework yesterday. Our homework was to use the tripod for a long exposure shot and work with aperture and not to have any shake. I experimented with several combinations of settings, but found I really liked a small aperture (F22) as it gave a “star” like effect on the little LED lights I placed around the subject of my shot. I used an ISO of 200 and a shutter speed of 10 seconds.

So these photos combine a couple of my favourite things. The Highland Park Whisky is made in the Orkney Islands. I really like the 18 year old Highland Park, but my bottle of that is nearly empty, so I had this 12 year old bottle that was full. Which makes for a better photo I think. The tartan wrapping the bottle is the Orkney Tartan.  I ended up using all the bottles that I currently have for the Trio picture, but the goal here was to take photo’s not so much to show perfect product pictures.

I am really please with the single bottle pictures.

This year marks the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War 1. I had the distinct honour of piping for several veterans at a local seniors home.

Tonight we visited a couple of interesting Remembrance Day sites. Veterans Affairs Canada had installed a very interesting display of sound and light in Confederation Park in downtown Ottawa. They had several light Orbs with video about people who had answered the call to war for World War 1.

We then walked up to the National War Memorial. It was still busy with lots of people paying their respects and dropping their poppies onto the tomb of the unknown soldier.