A rather uninspiring weekend over all. But, prior to the weekend, after work on Friday night, I'd taken a few minutes to walk around the place I work to see what might be interesting... which is where this shot comes from.
I expect that I'll regret posting this picture in the end, as it's a bit gimicky. But I did spend a fair bit of time working on it as I wanted to try out the collage technique, mostly because it uses masks, which is something in Photoshop that I seem to be having trouble getting a handle on, so I guess from the time investment point-of-view it's worth posting.
Anyway, if you haven't already figured it out, it's single picture with picture frames added - if you follow the tree branches or trunks you'll see that they all line up. Normally such an image is presented on a monotone background, but I decided to leave the rest of the picture partly visible as I thought in this case it helps with the effect.
Let me know what you think - good or bad; there have been far too few comments lately. Which, I'll admist, is largely my fault as I haven't been posting regularly, but it'd be nice to know that there are still people out there.
[Note: I re-edited this image and swapped the new version in on Monday evening - I'd finally figured out why it hadn't turned out quite as sharp as I'd expected.]
All the rain we've been getting has really put a crimp in my desire and ability to shoot lately.
There was, however, a brief dry spell late yesterday afternoon.
I'd been out on some errands and was just headed home when things started to brighten up, so I turned left off the bridge instead of right and headed for Fraser River Park. Good timing, as there was only about 5 minutes of very, very nice light and then it was gone. If I'd tried to go anywhere else, I'd have missed it.
Today there's been no break at all in the rain, and none forcast until late tomorrow night. But I'm really going to try to get out and find something to shoot tomorrow. Really. :)
I haven't shot anything new all weekend. I knew that the forecast was for rain but was still confident that I'd get out and get something. When it came right down to it though, I opted to keep dry instead.
This was taken just before sunset a little earlier this week, before the rain arrived.
While there seems to be lots of general signs that it's fall, I seem to be having a bit of trouble photographing it. I think maybe it's that "fall" is just too general of a topic; I need to have some better, more complete, ideas. Hopefully I'll come up with something better soon, but in the meantime here's a picture to keep you occupied.
Taken in Pacific Spirit Park late Friday evening.
I've moved my blog from the old Blogger to the "New Blogger in Beta" today. You might notice that it looks a little different and wonder why, so I thought that I'd mention that. Actually, now that it's past midnight I guess I should say that I made the move yesterday.
Let's hope that there are relatively few glitches in the beta edition of the new Blogger.
This shot was taken on my lunch break yesterday, as the fog rolled in and out over UBC. While I like the colours, it's really not a very impressive shot. But it's the only thing I had available and it'll do for now.
This is me trying to be less picky.
