300

No, this is not Sparta... This is, in fact, my 300th post since I started this blog. Not the 300th picture mind you, since some of my posts have had more that one picture (and only one, to my recollection, didn't have a picture). Anyway, I apologize for the long lag between posts but I was hoping to have something more unique for the occasion but that just hasn't come together yet. It's a great idea, and I'm sure it'll show up here eventually but I've decided in the meantime not to hold things up anymore. Which means that maybe I'll get back to posting a little more often now.

As for this shot, I'm pretty happy with the final result. I think is something to do with the textures on the side of the barge, or the colours or heck, I don't know, maybe there's some symbolism in the hand/foot holds going up the side... whatever it is, it works for me. Does it work for you?

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Beach & Barges

I got out with the camera for a couple of hours on Saturday, not really expecting to shoot anything interesting just out for the exercise more than anything.

I ended up at McDonald Beach where I found the lighting a bit of a challenge, but hey, no problem - I'd taken my tripod along (more weight to carry so more exercise...) so I just did some multiple exposure magic and pulled the result together with photomatix pro.

This shot (composite of 5 exposures) is looking south-east, and is just across the river from FRP, where Sherlock was barking up a storm as he played in the water with his usual tree trunk.

This is actually the second effort at this picture. The first, which I possibly liked better, was accidentally corrupted in Adobe Bridge so I had to redo it in photomatix; unfortunately I hadn't saved the settings I used and couldn't remember exactly what I'd done. There are enough variables to set in the detail enhancer that unless you have a really good memory or have saved the settings it's almost impossible to get the exact same result. I don't know how much that really matters though, as I played with it some more in photoshop anyway...

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Riverbank Industry

I've been playing around a bit with processes for converting an image from colour to black and white (monochrome), which has left me with a number of monochrome images and not much else.

No surprise then, that this post is one of them. It's from along the Fraser, on the north side of the Iona Beach park. I'd like to think that this image has a bit of a timeless feel to it, that you can't quite tell if it was taken two days ago or two decades. Let me know what you think.

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