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Posted on September 5, 2012
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Are you someone who does this? Do you keep an idea file for photographs you’d like to try? I’ve found myself doing this at times when travel cannot afford the time to stop and snap a few photos. At other times, I will realize… Continue Reading “Moose, Moleskin & Bison”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Fauna, Flora, Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Podcast, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Season, Shuttertime with Sid and Mac, Summer, SunsetTags: arts, elk island national park, illustration, transportation, travel, vacation
Posted on August 27, 2012
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Of the renderings considered, this image of the one ton grain truck (or perhaps utility truck) from the fifties intrigues by way of its waxless reflection brought out by its being rain soaked. The image’s colours are late summer’s end-of-day colours. Night isn’t too… Continue Reading “Reflection – Rain-soaked and Waxless”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Flora, Lookback Photos - One Year Ago, Night, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Season, Summer, Vehicle, Vehicle RestorationTags: car wheels on a gravel road, cars, jack kerouac, transportation, travel, vacation
Posted on August 26, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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Conundrum – how to manage a photo-a-day blog when away from home, computer, software and the Internet. Is it a matter of taking a computer with you? Or is it about caching photos taken during vacation for presentation later on, in look-back fashion? I’m… Continue Reading “Carpe Diem, Conundrum & Mosquitos”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Flora, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Summer, Vehicle, WeatherTags: combination of clouds, home computer software, sun and rain, travel, vacation
Posted on July 20, 2012
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On lunch break between summer tasks, I play tunes my daughter has had us download in iTunes – Smash Mouth songs, Megan & Liz songs and songs from the Glee Cast. She’s had me track down the original of The Zombies – She’s Not… Continue Reading “Tunes – Lunch Break”
Category: Backlight, Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Flora, Light Intensity, Night, Photoblog Intention, Prime Lens, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Summer, SunsetTags: music, travel
Posted on July 16, 2012
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One use for photography is as a means to revisit the past, to investigate the reality of former times and to hold up to scrutiny the mind’s eye view of significant events held in memory against the reality that photography reveals. Former times often… Continue Reading “Keeping Moments From Running Away”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Live View, Farm, Farmhouse, Flora, Homestead, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Summer, WeatherTags: alison krauss union station, marc riboud, travel
Posted on July 8, 2012
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Day 3 of the Wilson Prairie Wildfire – Friday, July 6th, 2012. In contrast to Thursday evening in which residents were able to move freely into the fire area, Friday saw Alberta’s Ministry of Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) controlling road access so that firefighting… Continue Reading “Wilson Prairie Wildfire – Day 3”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Farm, Farmhouse, Flora, Home, Homestead, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Season, Summer, WeatherTags: aviation, climate, nature, transportation, travel
Posted on July 4, 2012
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Our school year is complete. Mandated and extracurricular tasks and obligations have been seen through to good conclusion. I continue to be amazed at all the work all teachers engage in in moving students onward in their academic learning as these same students move… Continue Reading “ATTO – All That Time Off”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Flora, Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Prime Lens, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, School, SummerTags: animoto, frank mccourt, hormone jungle, pies in the face, travel, vacation
Posted on June 7, 2012
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Forest grows dangerously dry with summer heat. The matter of our region being a tinderbox is an expression used to describe this state in which forest can become prey to lightning strike and neglect by people working with fire. In this setting, rain becomes… Continue Reading “Threshold’s Threshing & Winnowing”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Flora, Night, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Spring, Still Life, Vehicle, Vehicle Restoration, WeatherTags: buffalo head prairie, climate, nature, tompkins landing, travel
Posted on May 10, 2012
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Saturday – new horizons await a friend, a colleague and a mentor as he moves on from our school. He is the person who hired me into our school division. And, he’s someone who in action, thought and approach is a character developing leader… Continue Reading “Goethe, Horizons and Thresholds”
Category: Backlight, Barn, Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Farmhouse, Flora, Light Intensity, Night, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Spring, Still Life, SunsetTags: creativity, travel
Posted on May 5, 2012
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Within a busy week opportunity for travel along former routes of home permits departure from the whirring, buzzing, routinized rhythm and press of town Life. An hour upon the road gathers me to others and I listen and we talk, good, informing chatter. The… Continue Reading “Dusk’s Golden Hour”
Category: Backlight, Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Live View, Cemetery, Flora, Home, Light Intensity, Night, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Spring, SunsetTags: canon 60d, granite headstones, sarah masen, shallow depth of field, travel
