Posted on October 20, 2015
by Lumens Borealis
10 Comments
Nissan Pathfinders – my wife and I have owned and driven three of these sports utility vehicles in Northwestern Alberta. We used each to travel in and out of Wood Buffalo National Park on our bi-weekly grocery run, a distance of 200km one way.… Continue Reading “Pathfinder Forays”
Category: Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Fall, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Journaling, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Season, Service Station, Vehicle, Vehicle Restoration
Posted on November 8, 2014
by Lumens Borealis
5 Comments
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 August 29, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
11 Comments
Beyond the Banff National Park gates, moving east toward Calgary, near the Stoney Reserve a service station with restaurant that had been a thriving business in the sixties, seventies and even eighties is now dormant. An abandoned structure, without windows and gyprocked walls, it… Continue Reading “Desperate Tattoo”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Journaling, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Service Station, Summer, WeatherTags: banff national park, chris mccandless, graffiti tags, jack kerouac, jon krakauer
Posted on March 14, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
1 Comment
A busy week has me posting photographs almost a week beyond date of image capture. Last Friday’s photowalk took us through High Level’s southern side, a slippery, melting world, a world of water splashing and flowing and soaking through. Photographers captured freeze-frame splashing, the… Continue Reading “A Slippery, Melting World”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Gas Station, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, School, Service Station, Still Life, Weather, WinterTags: cars, nature, outdoors, transportation, vacation
Posted on December 10, 2011
by Lumens Borealis
Leave a Comment
I’m going to study this picture. It does capture a sense of this being an outpost and a place to refit and refuel in night’s darkest hours. The intent, however, was to capture something iconic, a gas station lighting the night … it being… Continue Reading “Refit & Refuel”
Category: Canon 50mm, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Gas Station, Photoblog Intention, Prime Lens, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Season, Service Station, Vehicle, Winter
