317/365: World of Baileys.
I love a good coffee with Bailey’s Irish Cream in it. Here’s the local “deluxe” version as served at the Shepherd’s Crook pub. For fun I pointed a fisheye at it from above.
316/365: Rememberance.
Today is Rememberance Day in Canada. We wear our poppies to remember our veterans that gave us our freedom. This is my poppy, on my fleece jacket.
315/365: Carrotic Art.
A photo of some carrots piled up for sale at a popular grocer in Oakville.
314/365 : Moo-ve Along.
Spotted this cow while hiking along the Bruce Trail to complete the Beaver Valley section of the trail. I was shooting with only two lenses on my hike – the 28mm f/2.8 prime, and my 50mm f/1.8 prime. Sure makes for a lighter camera rig to carry small primes like that. Anyway, I had the 28mm on when I met the cow, and when I crouched down to shoot through the fence, the cow became curious and wandered over.
313/365: First Frost.
Today was the first day this year that I noticed frost, instead of dew, on my car before work. This is an iPhone photo of my car’s roof, with Jack Frost’s handiwork.
312/365: Hello, Latté!
Just a closeup with my nifty fifty, and my 12mm macro extension tube to get just a bit closer. Sometimes, you just gotta appreciate your feline friends.
311/365: Infernal Device.
Went out to check on a night cache of mine, since BFL Boot Camp 7 is approaching. The BFL caches always get a bit more traffic as the event approaches. This cache is one of my more evil hides, from BFL Boot Camp 5. It’s called The Illuminatrix, and it’s a night cache. Here is the actual “Illuminatrix Device” that has frustrated cachers at the event. I’m posting a bit of a spoiler here that shows how the device works, but this is only gonna help a wee bit. This is a handheld photo with my nifty fifty by the way.
310/365: Sheaves Tower.
Had some work to do this morning in our Kitchener office, which I remembered isn’t far from Cambridge’s “Sheaves Tower”. When I finished up, I headed on over for a few photos of this little landmark. I started with the obvious walk up the path take a photo of it filling the frame sort of stuff that I’ve done before. Most of my photos today were with my primes – I had the 28mm and the 50mm out in force with a couple shots with my DX 10mm. As I was packing up the idea hit me to see how this would appear if I backed way off and shot it from a distance. Here I’m way across the old mill pond and shooting over the creek to give more more of a “sense of discovery” to the image. I rather liked it.
309/365: Break Point.
I attended a baby shower in Chatham last night…. and it sort of continued into this morning. Around 2AM I grabbed a photo of the billiard table, showing what the scene is right after a break occurs in the game. I learned something with this photo – if your D800 is set to “video” on the live view but you take a photo, none of the currently released Adobe software can read the image file – Lightroom, nor ACR. I had to download Nikon View NX2, open the image, convert it to TIFF, then I could pull it into Lightroom for post production. Note to self, watch that live view selector switch.
308/365: Orange Vertigo.
Had a few hours to kill today in Chatham, so I headed downtown for a solo photo walk. I parked at the Civic Centre and walked along the Waterfront Promenade before circling around behind Tecumseh Park and the Retro Suites. I got lots of great photos along the way, and had a hard time picking one to represent the day. I finally settled on this one, taken at the top of the stairs to the parking deck at the local mall. I used my 10mm and held the camera out over the railing, using the lens’ distortion to pull more of a vertigo effect out of the situation. Tricky part was getting my feet out of the photo with such a wide lens.