Month: November 2013
Posted on November 28, 2013
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The reds of the silo structure frame and the perspective created looking through it attracted my eye to the silo and elevator structure last Sunday. Then it’s been about the textures within the image and those applied to the image. Listening to – ‘Songs… Continue Reading “Superstructure – Red”
Posted on November 27, 2013
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Gardner Hamilton’s quote, “a [photographer] is someone who does not necessarily go out with a mission, but someone who is [or becomes] mentally aware of when they have walked into a photograph” sticks with me. The quote comes against the question of what influences… Continue Reading “To A Photograph”
Category: Barn, Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Live View, Farm, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Homestead, Journaling, Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Still Life, WinterTags: McNaught Homestead, photographer, the photograph, Wagon Wheels
Posted on November 19, 2013
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That day – I enjoyed it. Days away that my wife encouraged when the draw back to work and home was the safer, more familiar choice; listening to her I got a hotel room, stayed put, slept and the next morning, looked anew at… Continue Reading “Meditative Original”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Journaling, Night, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Still Life, Sunset, Winter
Posted on November 18, 2013
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In the golden hour, when the sun nears the horizon to sunset, I was travelling, leaving Grande Prairie and had driven past Clairmont and Sexsmith just where the divided highway shrinks down to two lanes. To my right was the patterning of snow covered… Continue Reading “Pillowed, Pocketed – Undulation”
Category: Barn, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Flora, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Still Life, Sunset, WinterTags: Alberta, Golden Hour, Sexsmith
Posted on November 17, 2013
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It is snowing. I have driven out to La Crete, Alberta to deliver the table top of my mother and father’s teak dining room table to Homestead Kitchens, reputable wood workers in our region. It’s likely that the wood needs to be refinished –… Continue Reading “Blumenort Shop”
Category: Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Farm, Journaling, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Still Life, Weather, WinterTags: Alberta, Blumenort, bruce springsteen, dining room table, Homestead Kitchens, La Crete
Posted on November 16, 2013
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Last weekend, on walkabout with my camera, I stopped in at the McNaught Homestead, near Beaverlodge, Alberta, an anchor in my growth as a photographer, a place where I had taken one of two photoplayshops with two instructors calling themselves the Ditch Divas, likely… Continue Reading “Time’s Relentless Melt”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Homestead, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Still Life, Vehicle, WinterTags: McNaught Homestead
Posted on November 15, 2013
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Returning to High Level from La Crete I chose to investigate briefly the photographic opportunities available at Buttertown, a community just across the river from Fort Vermilion, Alberta. I followed the track through Buttertown finally stopping near this homestead home that may be a… Continue Reading “Half-light & Snow”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Fog, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Home, Homestead, Journaling, Light Intensity, Night, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Still Life, Weather, WinterTags: Alberta, Buttertown, Fort Vermilion, North Vermilion, North Vermilion Settlement, susan sontag
Posted on November 7, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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My wife points us to music tonight. At day’s end she’s responding to both of us, each a vortex of thoughts, moving, tumbling, clustering, dot-to-dot, aiming toward productive, tangible result – saturated with the day, not here, not in the now, needing to release… Continue Reading “Homestead Music”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Fall, Farm, Farmhouse, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Home, Homestead, Journaling, Light Intensity, Night, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Season, Still Life, Sunset, WeatherTags: Alberta, Buttertown Homestead, David Gray, Fort Vermilion, music, steve stockman
Posted on November 4, 2013
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Every time you leave home, Another road takes you Into a world you were never in. New strangers on other paths await. New places that have never seen you Will startle a little a your entry. Old places that know you well Will pretend… Continue Reading “Blessing – For the Traveler”
Category: Backlight, Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Fall, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-dayTags: Alberta, Manning, Meikle River
