Photo of the Week 2019-09-16

I've put the sunset photo posts on hold while I've been out exploring the world with my infrared converted camera. Not everyone will be a fan of this recent work, I get that and I'm OK with it. This blog and the path of it's posts log a 'Photographic Journey', one that is still underway, turning unexpectedly at times and perhaps looping back at others, always moving ... not necessarily forward, sometimes slow, imperceptibly slow, sometimes quickly ... always exploring.

In recent weeks, I've been deliberately concentrating on photographing heritage bridges in the Grand River Watershed in infrared then post processing using different methods ... exploring.

For this week's images of the Irvine Street Bridge north of Salem, the processing took a curve when the overcast skies created a blue colour cast to anything not foliage. Blue concrete and limestone rock simply did not look right. I guess one could say that the IR images I been posting all don't look right, but in this case I was exploring alternate processing methods and they just didn't give me what I was after ... until I removed the blue.

And now we have 'sans bleu'

Irvine Street Bridge - IR sans bleu

Irvine River - IR sans bleu

Irvine Arch - IR sans bleu

DJE

Photo of the Week 2012-09-24

Low water levels across the area provided easier access to some locations than one might normally encounter.

the other side of the bridge

Such was the case for this weeks image from "the other side of the bridge". The Irvine River joins the Grand in Elora just downstream of Elora Mill. Access to the Irvine gorge is easy via a steep staircase accessible from James St. The objective this weekend was to explore the upstream section of the gorge beyond the David Street Bridge as far a possible by hiking along the riverbanks without getting our feet soaked.

The weather was overcast and raining intermittently making for hazy, low contrast conditions with no detail in the sky to add interest to the scene. Undeterred we proceeded upstream for more than an hour, picking our way across slippery rock and ledges until we could go not farther without standing in ankle to knee deep water. The round trip took just under three hours including all the time taken for photography and we calculated only travelling a few kilometres at best.

Although not one of the most photographically productive outings I've made, it answered the question "what's up there?" and provided a new perspective of the David Street Bridge.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2012-07-16

After a couple of late nights (for me anyway) it was an early start at 5:30 am to head north on Hwy 6 so we could catch morning light. The objective was warm sunlight washing over yellow canola fields.

A Wellington County Morning

Alan was driving and as we passed over the Irvine River I startled him by shouting "stop!" after looking east and catching a glimpse of the scene captured in this image. He found a suitable place to pull over on the far side of the bridge and we scrambled back across.

The early hours of daylight offer wonderful light and subtle colours. This time of year that means getting up at O'dark-thirty to head out and be on location before the sun gets too high in the sky and everything is blasted with harsh light. Some think that this is ... well, just stupid. I think this is why they invented the afternoon siesta.

;-)

DJE