Photography
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.
This morning I took the mobile photo studio to the local dealership to have the snow tires switched over to the summer tires. I wanted to be first in line so I was there at the crack of dawn. While I waited for the garage to open, I was rewarded with this spectacular urban sunrise.
Earlier this year I was asked if I would be interested in being the featured photographer in an upcoming issue of the Orkney.com newsletter.
Today, a nice surprise came out. I am very honoured that Orkney.com chose a Canadian amateur photographer to highlight a very special part of Scotland.
Check about half way down this months newsletter under the Focus on Photography heading.
Stay safe and healthy everyone, so we can go back again soon.
End of March update on my virtual challenge Lands End to John o’Groats (LEJoG) walk.
As of March 31st, I am currently just down the road from Stone Henge just north of Salisbury in Wiltshire England.
285 miles/459 kms completed – 799 miles/1,286 kms to go. (26% completed in 25% of the time)
I hope everyone is well with all the craziness that is happening in the world. Please follow all the Government guidelines and we will all get through this together.
I have been trying my best to avoid crowds and people and the result has been some moody and lonely pictures.
When the City of Ottawa starts blasting the ice above the Rideau Falls to prevent ice jams on the falls (This prevents flooding in this part of the city) you know Spring is on the way. We went down to the falls to do some Long Exposure photography to hopefully give a sense of movement of the water and ice. Most of the shots were between 1-5 seconds in length and 100 ISO, F29.
So I learned something with this set of photos. Always check your settings. The last photo I took with my camera before I took these was the night shot of Orion. I set the camera to Manual Focus and set the focus to infinity. I forgot to set it back to AutoFocus. These photos all came out as good as they did because of a couple of things. My F-stop was very high, allowing for everything to be in focus both near and far and the exposure was long, so that made the image a bit softer.