Photo of the Week 2018-04-16

Winter fights to hang on, spring fights to break through ... a snow and ice storm threatening historic proportion moves in to blanket the ground and throws a late chill into the forest.

snowy spring forest

Lousy weather? No worries, dress appropriately and go outside to get some exercise and fresh air, there’s always the option of a hot drink when you get home ... in my case a tasty matcha latte.

There's a very different feel to the outdoors when the weather turns bad. Gone are the usual sights and sounds. You could be surrounded by the hiss of the wind high up in barren trees and blustery waves that whoosh along side, the tick, tick, ta-tick of ice pellets hitting frozen trunks and your weather-proof jacket shell, and the unique crunch of 'sugar snow' under your feet as you work to find traction in the slippery granules.

Spring snowstorms attempt to blanket the life that has begun to emerge after the long winter. Signs of the new season can appear completely obscured in the 'snowy spring forest'.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2017-10-02

A trip back to Paris, ON ... and some potential additions to my Skyward Series

Skyward - John M. Hall - I (graphic)

While unfortunately requiring a degree of convalescence from an injury to my right elbow and resulting infection requiring IV antibiotics, I decided to make a visit back to Paris for some infrared captures around the town. The IR converted EOS M and my G3X proved light enough that I could wield them without pain or further aggravating the elbow.

It was a great morning for shooting IR with bright sun, though I would have preferred some cloud in an otherwise clear sky. I spent  a few hours wandering around the town, capturing images of the prominent storefronts, buildings and local scenes.

Always looking to push my photographic craft further, every outing offers a new lesson or reinforces previous ones. While I made quite a few exposures looking for something different, I fell back to the "skyward" approach as there was simply too much activity at street level distracting from what I had in mind to capture. By pointing the camera "skyward' along the shop fronts, I eliminate the distraction, and capture a unique yet recognizable view if this pretty little town.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2017-08-21

The beginning of a new series ... 'Skyward - Graphics"

These first images of buildings in Paris, ON made with my infrared (IR) converted Canon EOS M and shot with 850 nm filter to produce high contrast B&W images that I then processed to have a 'graphic' look and feel.

This project is the result of moving back to a creative formula that served me well for a number of years. Instead of always and quite possibly only, shooting in the place that I love, 'the Bruce', I'm making time for photo outings to other locations, turning my eye and camera on other subjects ... to rekindle the creative fires.

I'm very pleased with these initial results. Now I just need to make time and visit some of the other towns and smaller cities in addition to Paris so I can expand the series.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2017-08-07

Following on last week's post about changing up the weekend routine and using a modified IR ca modified to awaken my creative vision ... over the past week, I've been experimenting with processing techniques.

Ever on the lookout for a processing technique that works to transform digital image files into a graphic, using a combination of LR, ON1 Photo Raw and Anthropics, Smart Photo Editor on and infrared capture, I came up with this result which I'm quite pleased with.

Penman's Dam  -  Photo-Graphic

I intend to keep experimenting, but having applied the results to a few other images from the day, I may have come up with something to keep in the processing arsenal. 

DJE