Photo of the Week 2011-07-11

the look

On the way home from the Listowel recently, I saw a young daughter and her father working at the end of the lane to their farmhouse. I had passed by but decided to turn around and grab a few images. By the time I got back they had moved quite a way from the road. My 70-200 did not have enough reach for the composition I wanted so this is a significant crop.
The heat haze and a bit 'o post gave me what I was going for ... of course the little lady provided "the look".

Opportunities like this are precisely why I always travel with a camera. It may not be my DSLR with a full range of lenses, but I can say that I never knowingly or willingly travel without at least a compact digital camera. As it happened, I had a photo backpack with some of my better gear with me on this occasion and as already stated, even that did not provide the framing I wanted for this image ... so I made use of the digital darkroom and cropped the portion of the image I visualized at capture.

I made few other exposures of the rural Ontario scene before me, trusting that I was able to capture what I needed in a couple of images. The subjects were retreating up the lane to the farm house and quickly, the moment of interest passed.

up the lane


DJE

Photo of the week 2010-12-27

Christmas 2010 - Jessica's Reach


Children are such great photographic subjects, just follow them around or watch them for a while and you are bound to be presented with a photographic moment.

Jessica was unsure of the me with my camera watching her during family Christmas celebrations this year. After a short while she went on with the things that young ones do at these gatherings, paying only sporadic attention to me. That's when the moment occurred ...

... no worries, all the decorations are fine, Jessica's mom was close at hand to watch over her, and the decorations.

DJE