Photo of the Week 2023-02-27

 

It's all about what is missing ...

 

' negalith '

Modern city architecture captured in infrared ... from a Saturday morning outing to Downtown Hamilton, ON with a reflections theme in mind.

At the suggestion of a friend, for both theme and location, we met for a morning photo walkabout in and around the Farmer's Market area of Hamilton. He had the idea of capturing reflections in windows of buildings in the downtown core. The theme was selected by a random theme generator he programmed and primed with 20 or so selected themes. The idea behind the generator, to hone photographic skills and vision through pursuit of images relating to a theme while out shooting. I think it worked very well, as did his selection of location for the reflections theme.

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2023-02-20

' sky pyre '

The final image in a series where I 'zoomed' closer and closer capturing sunset on the Huron horizon.

 

With sunset photography, scouting or knowing the location in advance helps me form a plan of how I will shoot. I use that plan as a guide only and adapt as I respond to what the scene is presenting.

 

I 'scouted' this familiar location along our cottage shoreline earlier in the day for ice formations with the idea of using sunset reflecting through or from them. I used The Photographer's Ephemeris to determine that sun would set almost perfectly centred behind the mouth of our bay. But conditions did not turn out as I had anticipated and my response was to shoot a series of images using the lens to zoom in tighter and tighter into the point where the sun had fallen below the horizon.

 

Here are the other images from the series ...

 

between the ice and sky - still  closer

 

 

 

 

 

 

between the ice and sky - closer

between the ice and sky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

scouting the probability of sunset - II

DJE

Photo of the Week 2023-02-13

 

' winter homestead '

 

This place has been photographed many times and when I had the opportunity to stop by in the middle of a blizzard, I knew it would allow me to capture something different ... that and a little work in post  gave me the stark, cold, isolated look I wanted.

 

I've managed to get out and photograph during what winter weather we have had here in Southern Ontario. It's been a very mild winter, so far, with only two or three significant snowfall events, and then the snow hasn't remained on the ground long afterwards with temperatures rising to unseasonally warm levels just days after the snowfall. I'm confident that winter is not over yet, however I am not confident that that there will be more opportunity for the winter photography that I so love ... at least not until next year.

Not willing to give up yet, I am thankful for the brief periods of winter I was able to enjoy in the Rideau Lakes area and on the Bruce Peninsula to this point in 2023.

#frozenfingerphotographer

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2023-02-06

 

Happy that winter, or at least a few winter days have arrived, I've been wanting to get out with camera as much as I can to capture all of the beauty I can ... while it lasts.

 

I had spent some time in Eastern Ontario, in Rideau Lakes near Perth, and enjoyed exploring and photographing in the area a little. The shortly after I returned home, the urge to get up to our place on 'the Bruce' won out and I was off again in search of winter scenes to capture.

' Mermaid's Winter Veil '

Relatively warm, open waters and frigid air temperature combine to shroud the shore of Mermaid Cove in winter fog and create this scene for me to stand and admire before making this capture.

 

 

DJE