Photo of the Week 2022-04-25

 

' spanning time '

 

For this week's photo, I'm going back a few weeks when I visited Pakenham ON to photograph this historic bridge. While revisiting the images from the day, I found this image from the east side of the bridge and decided to apply a vintage treatment with Silver Efex from the NIK Collection.

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2022-04-18

 

' reflections of a final snowfall '

Spring continues to tease it's arrival, winter refuses to take it's leave, time for me to create something from their struggle.

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2022-04-11

I haven't picked up a camera in a week, but there are plenty of images in the queue. These are from a few weeks back when I rushed to get some shots of four Bald Eagles that were out on the ice near the far shore of the bay.

 

An adult Bald Eagle seemed to be teaching class. I think it was 'Flying in the Wind 101' because it took off before I could grab a shot of the 4 birds together. Then each immature bird took a turn trying to emulate what they were shown. There were varying degrees of success but all eventually made it and out of my sight line.

 

' flying low '

' three immature baldies - waiting their turn '

I hope this family stays around and I'm able to photograph them again in the coming months.

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2022-04-04

With some time to spare during a visit to Eastern Ontario and the Ottawa area, I headed to Pakenham, somewhere I had been meaning to revisit for almost 10 years ...

 

' spring arches '

 

For me, the main attraction in this quaint little village is the Five Span Stone Arch Bridge, reportedly the only stone bridge of it's kind in continental North America. I'll leave you to use the link provided or Google it yourself to enjoy learning about this unique, historic, Ontario bridge.

A dull and overcast sky had me thinking of black and white at first, but then I imagined a splash of false colour using infrared. Looking for a n interesting composition, I went about making images on both sides of the river and both upstream and downstream of the bridge. Water in Ontario's Mississippi River was high from the spring melt, flowing fast and full through all five of the arches and I tread carefully on the slippery riverside rock to get this feature image.

 

DJE