Category: Sigma Lens – Wide Angle 10-20mm
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 October 11, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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Remnants of spring, summer and autumn, a cluster of HDR photos populate my photo folder. Farm buildings, fields ripe with grain ready for harvest, trees with autumn leaves desaturating from green toward bright yellows and reds, summer cloudwork and a final shot of Edmonton… Continue Reading “Remnant Population”
Category: Barn, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Combine (Farming), Fall, Farm, Farmhouse, Flora, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Home, Homestead, Journaling, Lookback Photos - One Year Ago, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Season, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, Spring, Summer, WeatherTags: Alberta, harvestor silos, Keg River
Posted on August 20, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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The juxtaposition of ‘No Exit’ against a landscape backdrop seems more an entry into the wilds from which one may not return. And, I note that the image does possess a surreal quality that recalls portions of the memory work accomplished by Jonas and… Continue Reading “No Exit”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Farm, Journaling, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, Spring, SunsetTags: bruce springsteen, landscape backdrop, lois lowry, mayerthorpe alberta, memory work, rochfort bridge
Posted on August 19, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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The following text is excerpt, core invitation to a cousin to interact with me through my photo blog and exposes intentions for the blog and posting. “My photoblog’s URL is http://www.lumensborealis.com , written from the point of pseudonym, also most often written at day’s… Continue Reading “That Thought, Complete”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Farm, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Home, Journaling, Light Intensity, Night, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, Spring, Still Life, Sunset, The Candid Frame, Vehicle, Vehicle RestorationTags: grande cache alberta, jasper alberta, northern roads, releasing the day, schindler s list, trestle bridge
Posted on August 18, 2013
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I have had a go at creating two High Dynamic Range (HDR) images in the last while. In landscape images my practice is to shoot with Automatic Exposure Bracketing (creating 3 images in succession -1, 0 & +1) and explore how the images will… Continue Reading “HDR – Image Subjects, Revisited”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 50mm Lens, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Live View, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Journaling, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Prime Lens, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, Spring, Still LifeTags: adobe photoshop lightroom, cars, high dynamic range, pillars of the earth
Posted on July 28, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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Summer, summer break – vacation … settling into a new time zone five hours different from that of my year’s norm finds me out of our hotel with camera and tripod early in the morning, walking, gathering photos of Honolulu’s Waikiki – the day… Continue Reading “Waikiki – Dawn”
Category: Backlight, Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Live View, Flora, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, Still Life, Summer, SunriseTags: nature, outdoors
Posted on June 30, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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This edit of the Boyer River bridge connecting La Crete and Fort Vermilion to High Level and points North is one celebrating colour, structure, detail and lines creating perspective. The colourful rendering of the bridge recalls for me many lectures and presentations offered by… Continue Reading “Boyer Bridge & Buscaglia”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Live View, Journaling, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, Still Life, SummerTags: boyer river, julia stone, leo buscaglia, pariah dogs, paul strand, rodeo clowns
Posted on June 26, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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Looking south, through the bridge crossing the Boyer River en route from High Level to Fort Vermilion, this perspective, looking through the bridge to the incline and curve on the other side becomes my first opportunity to photograph a bridge straight on, from the… Continue Reading “Boyer Bridge – Bisection”
Category: Backlight, Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Journaling, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, Spring, Still LifeTags: impermanent things, nature, outdoors, transportation
Posted on May 18, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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Church, a place and time of whole-hearted, meaning-crammed communion, is something each of us encounters in different venues that captivate us – the camaraderie found in others’ company, the transcendence found in the out-of-doors, the intersection of our Life with lyrics and melody in… Continue Reading “Pilgrimage Church”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 50mm Lens, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Home, Journaling, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Prime Lens, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, SpringTags: galicia spain, roman catholic church, santiago de compostela, spirituality
Posted on April 22, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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In a spring that needs to take hold more firmly, winter drags on, a guest overstaying its welcome. Winter continues as constant in and around Alberta and features in photos – farms dusted with snow, grain elevators and Harvestor Silos providing colour against the… Continue Reading “Winter Constant”
Category: Backlight, Barn, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Farm, Farmhouse, Home, Homestead, Journaling, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Rail Yard, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, Spring, WeatherTags: grain elevator, harvestor silos
