Photo Phriday!

Photo Phriday!

One more for the Saskatchewan Legislature grouping, yay!

Mando Mercs - Kal Runi - Photo Phriday

These photos all came from a Photo Shoot I did back in August (geez, is it almost November already?) and I thought I would finally post some of the b+w's I shot at the time. The locale for the shoot was a place I had discovered quite by accident about a month and a half prior to shooting there: Wascana Trails. It's about a 20 km drive from Regina City Centre and is a great walking/biking/horse riding trail for those interested, nevermind a great photo spot. We're now entering the winter months so I doubt any photos I'll be posting over the next couple months will be there but, that being said, you can likely expect it being used as a locale for some photos in the future.

NWT Trip - Photo Phriday!

I finally had a chance to sit down and edit all my photos I took in Yellowknife and on the way up, rather then just editing one or two at a time. This means a busy Photo Phriday as rather then prolong the photos you're getting a huge dump of them all at once! By rather amusing coincidence the majority of these photos are all of the same thing: water, whiskey jacks and bridges!













All of the above photos were taken on the same day when my wife, mother, father and I went for a walk out to Cameron River Falls, a water fall some 45 km outside of Yellowknife. It's one of my favourite places to photograph because it doesn't take much to get out too but it's far enough off the beaten path that there's NEVER a lot of people out there. Anyweather, the walk out was fun and when we got to the falls we stopped for a little bit and to just enjoy their majesty (or something). We pulled out some snacks that mother had packed up for us and started to eat when we noticed some birds (whiskey jacks/grey jays specifically) eyeing our food. We threw a couple morsels their way and - surprise surprise - they hopped down to eat it.

Well Julia and I decided to get a bit closer to the falls (as you can literally get to within a few feet of them safely) so we go a wandering, whilst my parents keep occupied with the birds. A few unsuccessful photos and a better look at the falls later and we came back to find a couple people (STRANGERS!!!!) visiting with our parents and the birds literally eating out of their hands. Not to miss the opportunity, the above photos were the end result!











These photos are all of the bridge crossing the Mackenzie River, the main only ground artery into Yellowknife. They were actually taken by request of a friend but I thought I'd post them here before I sent them off.

The bridge isn't actually finished yet but is, as you can see, getting fairly close to it. As such the ferry ride we took to get across the river will likely be ending soon. So I can proudly proclaim myself to be one of the final... 10 - 30,000 people to use the crossing. If the bridge finishes within the next year or two anyweather.





Alexandra Falls, just outside of Enterprise, NT - a small community about 2 hours from the border. No real story to go with these photos, the falls were just something I wanted to see and photograph, so on our way back home we did. Yay? Yeah!

Well that's it for this Photo Phriday, next week we'll get something completely different up and posted. Cheers!

Photo Phriday!

Still working my way through my vacation photos. I've come to the conclusion that CFL season is a bad season for photo editing as my free time on the weekends previously spent editing photos is devoted to CFL blog posting. It's either that or vacations which push my entire organizational schedule back a couple weeks (or however long my vacation is) are at fault. But I'd prefer to blame the CFL because blaming vacations mean I should stop taking them and I really don't want to. Anyweather. That's all for now! See you next week!

Photo Phriday!

Still brilliantly behind on editing leisure photos. Forgive me? Yeah, I wouldn't either. Well, at least I got this Photo Phriday up!

Photo Phriday!

It's a month later, you know what that means... Photo Phriday!! So I do have a few legitimate excuses for missing the last month of Photo Phridays (and general photo posting) - I was moving, I was on vacation, my work hours shifted dramatically - but ultimately they are just excuses. In any case, I've got a tonne more similar to the above to post in the near future, plus photos from my vacation, plus photos from other events.. but when they go up is still yet to be determined. In any case, I'll post what I can, when I can. Until then, my apologies for the delay, I am still here and I'll try to get back onto the Photo Phriday schedule if nothing else. Cheers!

Photo Phriday!

Also, Belladonna's Soccer photos!



















As mentioned previously I've been sitting on a few different weeks of Belladonna's Soccer Photos for a while and part of the reason I've been sitting on 'em is I haven't been taking a heck of a lot of 'em. I'm fairly disappointed in myself for this though I will argue aloud that this largely has to do with the majority of Belladonna's games starting at 5:45 and my work going until 6. That 15 minute overlap is generally enough to keep me from going home to get my camera and well, before you know it, the season is well over half over and I have very few photos to show for it. Eep!

In any case, the above photos should at least temporarily make up for the lack of major soccer photo production on here. On a slightly, non-photographic note, the team has come leaps and bounds in terms of performance since I started photographing them back in the 2010/11 indoor season. What started as a fairly average team with more losses then wins and ties has morphed into a competitive force in their division. Likely at the end of this season I'll post the team evolution in photos just to give you an idea of how the team has grown through the years.

Group and team photos, particularly at a regular annual or semi-annual interval, can be some of the most rewarding to take and to look at (IMHO). Nothing says awesome like seeing the people you are close to, either through work, play or sport (some weird hybrid of the two), and how they've changed and grown through the years. YMMV of course, but I love 'em.

Photo Phriday!

It's barely on time but I'll fly on by and drop this Photo Phriday in!

Photo Phriday!

Gah!!! I've been sitting on a set of photos for far too long and, I fear, given my schedule that time the photos will remain sat on will grow only longer. Blegh, oh well, here's one for Photo Phriday anyweather.

Photo Phriday!

Photo Phriday!

Unfortunately when you're not home six days out of seven for more then enough time to cook dinner and go to bed you don't get a lot of photo editing done.. here's a Flower Macro to (hopefully) tide you over!

Photo Phriday!

Apparently immediately after switching ideas for this blog, I immediately failed in one of my stated trueisms. Yes, I missed last weeks Photo Phriday! Gasp! The Horror! Well, let me do my best to put your hearts at ease. I'm still taking photos. In fact I've got about three sets I'm working on that I hope to have up in the next week. Plus, there'll be at least one other major photo opportunity between now and then. So more photos are on the way! In the meantime though, you'll just have to settle for Photo Phriday this week. And my deepest apologies for missing last week!!!

Photo Phriday!

Mosaic Week (II) - Photo Phriday!

Women's Soccer Week (VII) - Photo Phriday!

German Choir Week - Photo Phriday!

RGLS 60 Years Week - Photo Phriday!

Photo Phriday!