Tag: vacation
Posted on April 15, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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Coming to Seattle from just south of the 60th parallel, I had expected the earth’s sunrise and sunset to be more in tandem with what happens for us in our north. I was surprised to find the sun rising much earlier than it was… Continue Reading “Moonrise over Elliot Bay”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Home, Night, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Spring, Still Life, SunriseTags: 60th parallel, edmonton alberta, photo gear, stephane grappelli, travel, vacation
Posted on April 14, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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One feature of our Seattle trip was we were active throughout each day walking, travelling and walking some more. Being active helped us maintain body rhythms and daily routine. We were usually up at seven and on our way somewhere by eight. Breakfast, most… Continue Reading “Seattle’s Pike Market Place”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Spring, Still Life, SunriseTags: food, leadership, restaurants, travel, vacation
Posted on April 10, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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I spent most of last week on break, in and around Seattle, Washington. On Sunday, when we returned to Edmonton, my youngest brother asked me, “Why Seattle?” And, we let him know that our destination could just as easily have been New York, Cancun,… Continue Reading “Windblown Veils of Rain – Across Elliot Bay”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Season, Spring, Still Life, WeatherTags: mom and dad, pike place market, social mores, travel, utah mountains, vacation
Posted on March 22, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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In a Canadian literature course at the University of Alberta in the late eighties, Professor Bruce Stovel had us reading Canadian literature – Margaret Laurence’s Stone Angel, Upton Sinclair’s As For Me and My House and Hugh MacLennon’s Two Solitudes. I was coming to… Continue Reading “The Soft Solder”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Lens, Farm, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Home, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Still Life, WinterTags: advertising, business, cars, transportation, travel, vacation
Posted on March 21, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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Distances travelled within Canada’s vast landscape are huge. Travel along its roadways demands commitment to best use of drive time between point of origin and destination so you get where you are going and so you enjoy where you got yourself to. Within this… Continue Reading “Twin Lakes – Roadscape”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Journaling, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Still Life, Weather, WinterTags: cars, nature, outdoors, transportation, travel, vacation
Posted on March 20, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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The images I present in this post remind of a time when as a young Dad, I read stories from the Thomas the Tank Engine series to my son and my/our doing so was an enjoyable way to close out each day. Thomas, Percy,… Continue Reading “Where Are You Going …?”
Category: Barn, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Still Life, Vehicle Restoration, WinterTags: entertainment, quotes, travel, vacation
Posted on March 14, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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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 March 11, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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Sunday – photographs that I’d intended to post linger on my computer’s desktop in a file of edited images. The week has been busy with obligations taking me into my nights. The first image is one of a barn located in a muskeg bog,… Continue Reading “B-Sides, Photographs that Linger”
Category: Barn, Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Farm, Farmhouse, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Home, Homestead, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Spring, Still Life, WinterTags: architecture, arts, nature, outdoors, travel, vacation
