Photo Phriday!

June 24 Photo Excursion

Two weekends ago a friend and I went on another photo excursion though, unlike previous excursions this one actually had something of a purpose. Mostly of excursions are purely for the fun of photography and while this one was still with the same intent it was also to get photos of his local neighbourhood. And to get photos of powerlines. Yes, powerlines. So, invariably, we had some very inspiring shots emerge!





Anyweather, with the powerline photos out of the way, we moved onto the more standard RixelStudios fare... Flowers, landscapes and the (different) stuctures indicative of civilization!







A few photos I fiddled with to make them more pleasing (in my minds eye) and the above bench is one of the more glaring examples of this. Believe it or not I didn't initially take that photo in black and white. Though I'm sure I could have if I actually wanted to go get a film camera, black and white film, develop it manually, then scan the resulting image. Fortunately things like Photoshop exist today which eliminates a lot of those steps for me!

Now, simplistically, the photographers job always remains the same: to take amazing images. In the current digital age this goal is still the same. The difference is that now we have the ability to take an average image, remove the ugly aspects easily, and make it a good, great or amazing image through digital processing. However, everyone and their dog knows you can do this (even if they don't know how) so the trick then becomes to do so in such a subtle way that, for the average layman, they either don't question the authenticity of the photo or don't do so openly. Or, alternatively, if they do they are completely wrong and it wasn't manipulated to get that result. The latter is what we all aim for but only the fool doesn't take advantage of the tools he has in his arsenal.













And that's that for now, so we'll see you next time!

Photo Excursion Week (II) - Day Nine

Germany Week - Day Eight

Germany Week - Day Seven

Urban Week - Day Two

Aerial Week - Day Five

Starting to wish you were playing Sim City right now, aren't you?

Aerial Week - Day Three

In case anyone doubted that Saskatchewan is very Very flat...

Aerial Week - Day One

For any trained and certified stalkers out there, you should be able to find me around this grouping of houses for a fair amount of time today.

Germany Week - Day Six

Castle Cats!

Germany Week - Day Four

Germany Week - Day Three

Here's a completely different view from your standard Canadian view..

Saskatchewan Week - Day Four

Since I'm being very stereotypical in how I present most of these geographical photos, I would be somewhat remiss if I didn't include a nice one of an old rotting barn in the vast expanse of Saskatchewan. If you ever do decide to drive through Saskatchewan you're bound to see one of these.. or thirty.

Symbolic of a time gone by when the world was a better place, they're remniscent of some lost farmers dreams.. a land without jet planes, juke boxes, free thinking and all those other things which represented change! Yes, those were the days my friends. The structures are also old, rotting and probably not safe for kids to be around. Great to take photos of though!

Saskatchewan Week - Day Two

I took this photo out by Nicolle Flats near Buffalo Pound early one evening. I like the contrasting colours in the photo, which is why I took this photo, though I doubt it will win any prizes. Unless there's one for the most boring description of a photo. It might stand a chance in that category..

Saskatchewan Week - Day One

Here I am, over three months into this blog, and I realize that I've done a focal point on the NWT and Banff (two focal points in fact)! Yet I still have no done one on Saskatchewan. As the cow said to the farmer at the slaughterhouse: WTF?

So I have showcased more then a few Saskatchewan photos on here already, just not a week specifically dedicated to them. Ergo, its time you enjoyed some lovely Saskatchewan scenery like this marsh! In comparison to those boring mountains of Banff and majestic nights of the NWT, doesn't this marsh just make you wish you were here?

Banff Week (II)- Day Twelve

Well, I think I've gone enough days in this blog without posting a photo of some mountains in Banff, don't you? It's been three whole days! Crazy, I know! I mean, it's Banff you can't turn around without having some Mountain accidentally crash into your photo. So, yeah. I resisted as long as I could but they're back.

Hopefully you find these mountain photos amusing but if not you can always click one of those "Labels" on the side to go find something else fun to look at.

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FIREWORKS!

Everyone loves fireworks! Yeah! Give it a try! It'll be amusing!!

..or not, fine. Just keep looking at mountains. See if I care that you're neglecting those poor innocent fireworks. hmph! *sniffle*

Yellowknife, NWT Week - Day Two

This one is kinda boring, at least insofar as it's a pretty straight-forward landscape shop of North of 60. It's more or less what everyone pictures when they think of Yellowknife.. well, at least when they're not thinking that it's constant winter and everyone live in igloos. So, I guess I'd like two dispel to myths here: despite what you've heard to the contrary, no we don't live in igloos in a constant winter climate and, no, this is not what Yellowknife looks like. Just some landscape very near Yellowknife! Aren't you glad we got that sorted out?

Banff Week - Day Two

Julia and I found this scenery a short walk away from our hotel in Banff. Which is good because I was lugging around a huge backpack filled with camera equipment and I would've felt pretty darned silly if I didn't use it at least once on our hike!

Photo Excursion Week (I) - Day Five

Now who said Saskatchewan was flat?

Photo Excursion Week (I) - Day Three

Why I remember back to the ol' days when everything was simpler and the world had a bronze tinge to it...