109/365 : Latté’s idea of a Cat Bed.
This is Latté. You’ll note she’s rather comfortable on her new cat bed, which was formally known as the living room loveseat. Well, I’ve always got the piano bench to sit on, or the floor instead :).
108/365 : Out of Gas.
The west half of Brampton is being urbanized at the moment. That leads to big changes, and lots of abandoned structures waiting to make way for new houses and businesses. Here, we have the former Sunoco gas station at Mississauga Road and Steeles. It used to house a Country Style donuts as well but the new Esso across the street pretty much killed this off. There is a business park creeping up on the station and I suspect this will disappear before long.
For the image – this is a 9 exposure (-4 EV to +4 EV) image processed to HDR and tone mapped. The sky was pulled back in from one of the exposures to get that punch on the outline of the sun’s rays while preserving the overall luminosity for the rest of the image. Shooting straight into the sun at f/16 also told me one more important thing … it’s time to clean my DSLR sensor again…
107/365 : Stairway to Heaven.
Another run on the Caledon Trailway, which means another photo outing, sans DSLR. I ran 10km today, had a great time. Weather was perfect except for the 90km/h winds (that blew our fence down at home). The winds were refreshing though – it cooled me as I ran and also eliminated flora as a photography subject. At about the 3.5 km mark I spotted this tree off to the side of the trail so I wandered over and took a break to take a few photos. Here is one with the “motion panorama” mode of my Fuji XP21. It’s a rare (for me) Vertical Panorama … I might play with this composition more in the future…
106/365 : Penumbral Shadow.
Spent the day in bed with a migraine, which curtailed any ambition of getting out for today’s photo. Part of the 365 day photo project is to drive creativity, the other part is to keep viewing the world from a photographer’s eye. That’s what happened today. The abstract image above is simply shadows on the floor cast by the bathroom light. The light has four light bulbs in a line and that causes different shadows to appear. Photo taken and edited with my iPhone.
105/365 : Electric Vines.
Today’s photo comes from my run on the Caledon Trailway. One of my other activities I do to have fun is running, and I’d much, much rather do that on a trail than on a road. I really like to run on forest trails but this time of year they tend to be very muddy – that doesn’t make for an enjoyable run. So, I went out to my “easy” running spot, the Caledon Trailway. I spotted this near the mid-point of my run — well, this was near where I turned around being on a linear rail trail. It would seem that electric fences don’t bother the vines the same way they bother other creatures. Taken with the Fuji XP21 “indestructible” camera as frankly I’m not going for an 8km run with a DSLR thank you very much!
104/365 : Impulsive.
While I quite enjoy my photography and geocaching hobbies, I am not the only one in my household. My wife is more interested in musicial things. Here’s a closeup of something she would call an “Impulse” :). Now, I also got to try out some new things here too. Since this is a macro shot (50mm with 20mm extension tube) and inside the house I decided to remove vibrations by using a remote release … the choice of release here is the fun part. I used my MacBook with Aperture in tethered capture mode. That was fun 🙂
103/365 : Mocha.
Realized that Mocha our Calico friend hasn’t had much screen time in the project… So here she is relaxing in the living room!
102/365 : Chained.
One of those times that I remembered to keep my eyes open. I originally stopped for something completely different, then noticed a piece of old equipment on the nearby hydro pole. Getting closer, it was the chain, and that attachment on the left that became my muse. This little chain is around a little box under a hydro meter. I think the hydro meter was actually for the railway crossing equipment, as that’s the only thing that was nearby!
101/365 : Kristen’s Lemonade.
Still having the off-camera flash / up close and personal love going on, here’s a photo of the wonderful lemonade Kristen made tonight. Cheated this time and used autofocus, but everything else is under manual control again. Square crop was the intent before I pressed the shutter – I happen to like that format.
100/365 : The Northern “Pipe Cleaner” Penguin.
Day 100. Time for something a little special. Here we have a penguin, constructed out of pipe cleaners. I didn’t assemble it – this was a gift from my geocaching friends – Elf and Rainbow. Why a penguin? Well, my geocaching handle is “northernpenguin” so that’s why.
About the photo. This is a 100% manual shot, and it’s a photo that was created, not taken. The pipe-guin is sitting on a mirror tile, which looks like an ice flow. The snow in the background? It’s a roll of paper towels. The photo is manual focus because I’m not using a straight lens-on-camera. There’s a 12mm extension tube between my Nikkor 50mm 1.8 lens and the camera body. Lighting is nuke the ambient strobist style. That’s 1/400 and f/8 to completely eliminate the ambient light from the room yet keep some depth of field. I have two flashes on either side – the SB-600 on the left is firing at 1/32 power and the SB-800 on the right is firing at 1/16 power. Both flashes are about 18-20 inches from the subject on either side. ISO 100.