Archive for July, 2010
Painted Flower In Sepia
Jul 31st
Painted Flower
Jul 30th
I love love love this photo. I love that the plain of focus is so thin that it has an almost painted feel to it and the subject matter in the background is completely indiscernable. No photoshop filters or effects were applied to give it this oil painting look – this was just how the photo was taken!
Welcome Back!
Jul 27th
Welcome back! It’s been a while since my last post. Truth be told, it’s been a while since I’ve held my camera, but I’ve been busy busy busy doing the one thing that has been at the top of my bucket list for the past two years: designing my website.
Designing this website completely from scratch has been my sole focus and unfortunately I haven’t done much photography because of it. Now that it’s finito, I can back to doing the things I love! Went to the botanical gardens yesterday and took some ‘interesting’ shots to say the least. You’ll see them in the next few days.
So welcome to my new website and online portfolio. It’s taken three weeks of hard work, a sore neck, and I actually have a few bruises on my wrists from using the mouse on a hard tabletop so rigorously. I hope you guys love it, and I’d love to hear your comments and critiques!
Happy Canada Day & Anniversary Of The Blog!
Jul 5th
Canada Day marked the one year anniversary of the photoblog! This year you saw 121 posts and 144 photos. It’s been a fantastic year of photography, and it’s only getting better with a new summer of possibilities.
Last year, I tried to capture the fireworks on my own and I got some neat up close shots of the fireworks, but nothing exceptionally breathtaking… though it was a great way to start the blog. So to celebrate the 143rd birthday of Canada and the 1st birthday of my blog, I wanted to capture the Canada Day fireworks from the most fantastic and unique view of Calgary I could find. Of course, for those of you that know me, I am severely directionally challenged (thank you two x chromosomes!), but my brother, Fouad, is a walking Google Maps. So I set the mission upon him.
And he delivered. I truly have the most patient and supportive brother in the world. He took me to a part of Calgary I had never been before, and up this random, somewhat sketchy, hill on the opposite side of the Elbow River which bounds the northern aspect of Calgary’s downtown. We braved a plague of mosquitos (which are undescribably attracted to Fouad’s blood… sorry!), throngs of cars then people, and a steep hillish escarpment which felt horribly unsafe to rest my tripod and camera upon. Worth it - the view was fantastic!
But the photos… FAIL. What we didn’t see coming was probably the worst Canada Day fireworks display in the country. Seriously, Calgary does not believe in ’go big or go home’ and is probably saving all its good fireworks for the Stampede (fantastic fireworks every night!). The fireworks were not of the classic grande exploding variety, but these disappointing streaks that barely exploded, nor did the majority even clear the height of the smallest buildings in Calgary downtown (and they launched from the top of a building, not the ground!). Worse, from our view there was a tree blocking whatever we could see! The above photo is the best of the bunch – the highest and brightest Calgary had to offer. Tsk tsk Calgary.
But my oh my how Calgary downtown has grown since I left for university over six years ago.