No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. It’s the sun, in mid-afternoon. I shot this one while skiing this afternoon in Pippy Park. And hey, I remembered to change the camera to ISO 200! The neutral-density filter let me use a slower shutter speed and a wider aperture than would otherwise have been possible. I’ve often…
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Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning….
…. and the first thing that I heard, Was a song outside my window, And the traffic wrote the words. – Joni Mitchell Or rather, the garbage truck wrote the words and it was a made scramble for the recycling, tossing this into that and those into these and pelting out to the curb in…
Filtering
For years I enjoyed photography with a 35mm SLR camera and worked more or less within the limits of the existing lens and what opportunity a polarizing filter could offer. I really didn’t experiment much with many different kinds of filters, mainly because it was expensive and time-consuming to conduct such experiments. With film, there…
Conception Harbour, Take 2
We left Brigus and were cruising merrily along the road in the direction of St. John’s, our next task being to secure sufficient ice cream for the troops. John was driving. I was navigating. Katherine was scoping out likely ice cream destinations. Suddenly I turned to John and said, “Can you turn this car around…
Sometimes you only get one
I took a lot of photos this morning. The light was nice, but variable, but the sky was sort of bland (no matter how I exposed it). The end results were overall not what I was hoping for, especially since I had damned near frozen my fingers to the bones waiting for the sun to…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 