Photography
Here is my end of May update on my virtual Lands End to John o’Groats challenge walk. The end of the month brings me to Sheffield, England.
I am 48% completed with 837.5 kms down and 906.7 kms to go. If I keep my current pace, I am on track to finish in mid-November. The pin with my photo in it is my current location, the red pin is my pace pin. I am 114kms ahead of pace. I walked 200kms in the month of May.
One of the shots I took with my new Wide-Angle lens was posted on the local CTV Newscast this week in their Photo of the Day segment. Thank you very much for the recognition on your newscast. Thanks also to all the folks that called and sent me messages that saw it. I missed the newscast 🙁
I used my telephone lens and my extension tubes together for the first time. I also had a Ring Light attached to the lens for extra lighting. The depth of field is really tricky (small) to get just right. Here are a few that I am happy with.
One of my photography friends in Glasgow Scotland took some amazing evening shots with an Ultra Wide Lens. I was so impressed, I started saving some pennies and kept an eye on local sales and finally the stars align and I purchased a Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC ultra-wide zoom lens. It arrived in the mail late yesterday afternoon.
After doing several errands and some work around the house today, we took it out for a quick test run. I am quite please with the results.
We helped our close friends with an errand and while we social distance chatted to each other on their garden deck, I noticed a little Chipmunk in their garden. They said he was super tame, so I grabbed my camera while he posed for me.
Major change in our living room today. We took down a picture that has been up in our living room in our various houses for over 33 years and replaced it with one of my photos that I took in Scotland in December. I used a company called Canvas and Decor. 100%
I have to say that the social distancing lockdown has put a real crimp in my photo taking. The following group of photos have been taken while out and about on my walks that we are allowed for exercise and also a couple of indoor photos. Things are sounding like they may open up a bit. I cant wait to get out and take some photos that are not just in the backyard.
End of April update on my virtual walk from Lands End to John o’Groats. I am 37% done in 33% of the time. 637 km down, 1,107.2 km to go. I am a two day walk away (at my current pace) from Stratford Upon Avon. I am slightly ahead of pace. The red marker is my pace marker.
Behind our house is virtual flyway for all kinds of birds. Most are fairly shy and hard to capture. Bluejays especially are hard to entice to stick around.. but I have and idea for them. Here are a few of the visitors in the past couple of days.
Not being able to get out and about, or at least not very far has lead to some creative indoor photography. I took my extension tubes out to do some macro photography. I grabbed some liquid hand soap, some hand sanitizer and some old telephone wire that my kids used to make bracelets out of. The following are the results.
