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!

August 5 Photos

Missed another Photo Phriday and do you know why that's so horrible? I had photos ready to go I just didn't get home in time to post. Gah! Well, here ARE the photos that were going to go up. My wife and I went for a walk on a beautiful day here in Regina and I decided to take a few quick photos of her.



That isn't my wife, btw. I did take a couple photos that weren't of her.





The above photo is a good example of not preparing for the photo properly. The day was extremely bright out, what with the sun being out an' all, and the result was some extremely high contrast. Now high contrast in and of itself isn't bad as you can get some awesome photos with high contrast. However, if you aren't preparing for it (like I wasn't) you can get some heavy, distracting shadows that you probably don't want. How do you get rid of high contrast you ask? Turn on the flash function on your camera (this will help light up areas the sun is missing), just an evenly lit area (during sunny days, try completely shaded spots) or by a reflector! There's your quick photography tips for the day!







So, yeah, that's it for today. We'll see you later this week!