Photo Phriday!

Banff Week (III) - Day Eighteen

Photo Phriday!

Why take a photo of an NDP politician (especially when they aren't really "in season" right now) when I could take a photo of one of my statues illuminated by a candle? I mean, really...

Pewter Statues Week - Photo Phriday!

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Another twofer day? a-wha?!

This is actually a present I received a number of years ago for Christmas from a friend up in Yk. without her kind gift these photos wouldn't have been possible. So thank you Moira!

Pewter Statues Week - Day Six

I actually did take a photo of this before but decided against posting it since I was unhappy with how it turned out. I've now taken another photo of it (this one) and I'm STILL unhappy with how it turned out. I'm less unhappy though. So maybe, Maybe, with some tweaking and cropping I'll be happier with it. But until then this is going up in its current form. I hope you enjoy it anyweather!

Pewter Statues Week - Day Five

I was really hoping to save this one this week for Photo Phriday but I ran into the unfortunate scenario of not having enough Pewter Statue photos this week to make it to Friday (so guess what I'll be doing tomorrow?). So, yeah, this is up a bit early *technically* but I still like how it came out.

There's also an important lesson I could teach you about of depth of field, the aperture on your camera, and framing when you compare this to photo to Day Three too.. but suffice to say the photos themselves, I think, illustrate the importance of choosing your composition and aperture well enough. Not to mention they demonstrate just how many different photos you can take of a single subject.. As if I didn't already illustrate that with the Saskatchewan Legislature..

Ah well, we'll see you again tomorrow!

Pewter Statues Week - Day Four

So this skeleton walks into a bar and orders a beer and a mop...

Yeah, I still don't have anything relevant to say here. Do you think you'll survive without my relevant OR witty commentary?

Pewter Statues Week - Day Three

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Pewter Statues Week - Day Two

I've actually been meaning to sit down and take these photos for a while. The problem was, despite being in my home, finding the time and energy to take 'em was just a bit much after juggling every other minutiae and detail of life. Still, I couldn't procrastinate forever, so here I am and here they are! I think Pewter statues are awesome! ... Yeah! 'Cause you haven't guessed that already!

Pewter Statues Week - Day One

Pewter Statues, you say? Go on....

Banff Week (II)- Day Ten

If there's one thing I can't get enough photos of (aside from flowers or the Saskatchewan Legislature) it's statues! Yes, Statues are just so fun to take photos of: from high angles, from low angles, from tiny details to the entire thing, you name it! So, of course, the first statue of any worth that I see in Banff I take a photo of. Who is he? That's a good question. I read the plaque and I nodded my head pretending he was important and worth remembering but I didn't. Oops. Regardless, as you can see he points very well and you can bet whoever he was pointing at was getting a good lecture at the time. Either that, or getting told which way they had to go in order to see the mountains. Either or.

Legislative Assembly Week - Photo Phriday!

Statues Week - Photo Phriday!

You may be asking what's so special about Photo Phriday. Well, for those of you who didn't follow me on my other blog, at the beginning of 2011 I decided to take on the personal challenge of taking a quality photo (or set of photos) at least once a week. Subsequently, after taking said photos, I would post the fruits of my labour every Friday. Thus Photo Phriday. This blog spawned from that idea, albeit six months later, and with much more photo posting and much less talking.

SO! Since this is a weekly theme blog - for at least as long as I can keep finding new themes - I am attempting to take on the added challenge of always adding a new quality photo which will fit into the current theme. I can't promise that I will always succeed (unless you now some way Women's Soccer fits into the theme of Mosaic) but I will always try!

For those curious, yes, I did succeed this week! The above photo, is one I took on the way to work at a church I pass daily. Initially when I saw this statue (knowing I had to take a photo of it because it fit this weeks theme), I though the priest was holding up a book, preaching to some unseen audience. It turns out I was completely wrong and his hand was just missing. I hear having your hands chopped off is a crime for theft, which makes you wonder just what it was that a statue stole..

Ah well! Bonus hint time: Next weeks theme will be one of the most common themes for photographs!

Statues Week - Day Six

Statues Week - Day Five

Statues Week - Day Four

Statues Week - Day Three

Statues Week - Day Two

Statues Week - Day One