Category: Canon 60D
Posted on July 29, 2015
by Lumens Borealis
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Two summers ago, my wife, daughter and I enjoyed two weeks on Oahu. We rented a car, a Ford Fusion, for the time and used it to take us on day trips exploring Oahu. In the second week we returned for perhaps the fourth… Continue Reading “Rainbow Re-edit”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Live View, Farm, Flora, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Journaling, Light Intensity, Lookback Photos - One Year Ago, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Smoke, Summer, WeatherTags: Oahu, Wind Turbines
Posted on February 3, 2015
by Lumens Borealis
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 has been platform for creating, or perhaps better stated, re-creating High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from RAW files that had been used with NiK Software’s HDR Efex Pro. The process is new with a different sequence of steps – using Adobe… Continue Reading “A Finer Clarity”
Posted on November 8, 2014
by Lumens Borealis
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It’s colder today, snow is on the ground and a four-day, November break provides welcome opportunity for rest from pushing hard in these first three months of the school year. A quick drive southward and back home last weekend recalled the following images needing… Continue Reading “Route 66 – Restoration Reminiscence”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Gas Station, Journaling, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Service Station, Summer, Vehicle, Vehicle Restoration
Posted on December 26, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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Our Boxing Day is overcast. Snow falls (four inches worth), family sleeps late – the television has had its share of use and all have been able to settle and rest. Coffee and tea warm us. Outside is winter’s cold, an entity that almost… Continue Reading “Summer Colour & Warmth”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Farm, Flora, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Lookback Photos - One Year Ago, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Summer, WeatherTags: Field Green
Posted on December 26, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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A spring thaw in the early nineteen-hundreds saw several Fort Vermilion area farms flooded. In one instance a farm building washed out, the movement of the water weakening its foundation enough to topple the structure. Timber for that building floated downstream on the Boyer… Continue Reading “Storehouse Timbers”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Journaling, Lookback Photos - One Year Ago, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, SpringTags: Alberta, St Louis Catholic Mission
Posted on December 24, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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At Christmas, Love amplifies, powerful and lifting, scrabbling through the dark mess of tangle. Care and pardon affirm, anchoring you, there, in other Hearts – disgrace yields, grace overcomes. Love finds its way. At Christmas, the first steps within the incarnation are taken; a… Continue Reading “Soul Searchers”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Live View, Christmas, Christmas Lights, Farmhouse, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Homestead, Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, WinterTags: Alberta, Beaverlodge, bruce springsteen, Joan Osborne, martyn joseph, Rycroft
Posted on December 10, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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It’s cold this morning. At -26C, the conundrum is how to deal with my camera (battery-life) and tripod (breakable at colder temperatures). Warmly cloaked, as I trek round my morning’s 6km circuit, I’m resigned to using the walk to scout out pictures. Throughout, I’m… Continue Reading “Shape Sense – Light & Shadow”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Fall, Farm, Flora, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, WeatherTags: Alberta, Autumn Gold, Donnely
Posted on November 27, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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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 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
by Lumens Borealis
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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
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