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2011-11-10T14:52:00.003-05:00

I've decided to stop posting a photo here every week. Todd stopped months ago and I just don't feel like anyone even visits this page. If you do, you can check my updates in various other places. Here are all my corners of the internet.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #43

2011-10-25T18:35:00.000-04:00

Marmora Mine - Marmora, Ontario

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #42

2011-10-18T22:29:00.002-04:00

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #41

2011-10-11T03:30:00.002-04:00

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #40

2011-10-03T12:14:00.003-04:00

I spent the last week at a cottage in the Haliburton/Algonquin area with my Girlfriend, Laura and my sister and her husband. Now I'll be spending the majority of this week editing all the photos. This shot is from the Spruce Bog trail in Algonquin Park.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #39

2011-09-27T17:08:00.003-04:00

I'm a day late again, sorry. I'm currently up in the Algonquin area enjoying all it has to offer. Yesterday we went to the Haliburton Forest & Wildlife Reserve. This photo is Grissom, one of the 7 Wolves in their 15 acre sanctuary.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #38

2011-09-20T12:55:00.003-04:00

Last week Todd asked me to come out and shoot some video/photos of him getting into the ring with local champion boxer Mary Spencer. It wasn't a real fight, just a little demonstration but Todd still took a few to the nose and was feeling it later. The video should be up on www.windsorspitfires.com sometime this week.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #37

2011-09-12T15:18:00.004-04:00

Yesterday we went to Grand Bend to race our Karts at the Grand Bend Speedway during Windsor Weekend. The kart track is a small dirt oval inside the 1/4 mile speedway. This photo is along the front stretch of the speedway.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #36

2011-09-05T19:28:00.003-04:00

I didn't shoot much last week. I went out to a spot in Amherstburg to shoot an approaching storm but it changed directions and I missed it. So I tried again to shoot some IR (Infrared) photos. I still haven't really figured it out, but I liked this shot of a mostly covered barn/shed.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #35

2011-08-29T21:51:00.002-04:00

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #34

2011-08-23T17:38:00.001-04:00

I'm a little late this week. But here is my photo for the week. I shot this panorama lastnight after the races at FOG Speedway.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #33

2011-08-15T13:22:00.004-04:00

I went out last night to shoot the sunset, but there wasn't much to be had. So as the light faded I decided to try some twilight shots. I went to a spot I know next to the 401. As I was failing to get any good shots towards the west, where the sun had just set, I noticed the moon coming up from behind the clouds to the east. So I turned that way and got some tail light/cloudy moon shots.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #32

2011-08-08T13:18:00.006-04:00

Todd was nice enough to invite me to come take some photos at a Windsor Spitfire's press conference last week. The Spitfire's President and owner, Bob Boughner was on hand to announce he will be returning as Head Coach for the 2011-12 Season.Boughner spent last season in the NHL as Assistant Coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #31

2011-08-02T14:54:00.004-04:00

I'm a day late again. Not good reason, I was just busy yesterday and kind of forgot it was Monday. Anyway, I have something a little different this week. I recently bought a cheap IR (Infrared) filter last week so I've been trying to figure that out. I'm still struggling to get good results with it as it requires insanely long exposure time.

This photo was about 2 minutes long in the sunlight, and it still came out a little dark. I had to lighten it a lot and apply quite a bit of noise reduction in Lightroom. I also toned down the saturation a lot because everything comes out very red.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #30

2011-07-25T14:23:00.004-04:00

On Friday we went to try out the new Kart track in Tilbury, Ontario. I shot this panorama at the end of the night.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #29

2011-07-19T01:38:00.003-04:00

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #28

2011-07-11T12:17:00.005-04:00

I didn't shoot a lot of photos this week, but I tried. I just got a new lens that I've been wanting for years now, the Sigma 10-20mm. I haven't had a chance to really try it out, but I went for a walk one day with it last week and took a few simple photos.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #27

2011-07-05T12:15:00.004-04:00

I just realized I forgot to post yesterday. No reason, it just slipped my mind. But I still have photos. My main photo this week is just a random shot from driving around the county for fun. The sky was nice so I shot this panorama and added some light HDR.

My bonus photo would have been my main photo, but I've already posted it on the Weather Network website and Facebook.

I knew a good storm was coming so I drove out into the county to hopefully get some lighting shots as the storm rolled in, before the rain (and hail) started. Shorty after this photo, the storm hit, and it was pretty intense. By far the worst storm I've ever been out in. I thought there was a tornado and the wind was rocking my car pretty violently. I pulled into a small side street and parked next to a house for some shelter from whatever debris the wind might have been blowing.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #26

2011-06-27T13:39:00.005-04:00

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Last week I did a little storm chasing but never got lucky. I'm still waiting to catch a good lightning photo. I came across this spot that I've shot before, and while there wasn't any lightning there was plenty of good light.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #26

2011-06-20T13:45:00.003-04:00

This weeks photo is one of the last ones I shot in Tobermory. I shot many of our dock on Lake Huron. This was quite late in the sunset, and I used a small flashlight to light up the foreground.

One day during our time in Tobermory, Laura and I did a little exploring to some abandoned places on the Peninsula that I found on the internet. This is the stairs at a tiny old schoolhouse.

A typical night for us at the cottage, drinks by the fire until the howl of coyotes in the bushes at midnight sends us back indoors. Me on the right, Laura on the left. My sister and Rob behind Laura.

Anyone who's been to the area is no stranger to bratty Red Squirrels.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #25

2011-06-20T13:03:00.006-04:00

So, I'm a week late but I have a good reason. I spent the last week in Tobermory gathering photos (1245 to be specific). I spent a good hour last monday trying to post these photos from my girlfriend's iPhone but I couldn't get it to work and decided to give up and enjoy the campfire on the lake.

The first photo is from one of my nightly sunset photo sessions along the water behind the cottage we rented. We didn't get any really stunning sunsets but they were decent at least.

This is a photo of our cottage from the view of our campfire on the lake with the full moon rising. I had already brought my camera gear back to the cottage for some reason and rather then walk a few feet to retrieve it, I used my girlfriend Laura's Camera. I also lit the trees up with a hefty flashlight.

I also have a couple panoramas from Bruce Peninsula National Park. This first is from my favourite little overhang tucked in the trees away from the rest of the tourists that I like to hide in for some peace. This is the same location as my cliche feet-hanging-over-the-edge photo that I've shot on a few separate occasions.

Finally, here is a panorama of the outside of the grotto. Surprisingly there was no one else here at the time. Usually this time of year its packed with at least a class worth of kids on a school trip. Stay tuned later for THIS weeks post. I just need to make a few last edits.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #24

2011-06-06T15:33:00.004-04:00

My girlfriend and I went to explore some of the abandoned houses off Huron Church Line here in Windsor last week and managed to find one that was open. This is the upstairs bathroom.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #23

2011-05-30T13:16:00.003-04:00

This Saturday I was able to shoot the Windsor Spitfires Rookie Camp. I'm sure you'll be seeing a lot more of at least a few of these guys in the future.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #22

2011-05-23T12:01:00.003-04:00

Saturday was the first big Bike Jam of the season at Forest Glade Skatepark. I showed up later than I wanted to, as usual, but I was still able to catch most of the action. The first photo is Jayde Cunningham with a 360 barspin over the spine in Best Trick.

This wall got gapped a lot throughout the day. Ryan Seguin successfully 180'd it.

Jayde Cunningham tailwhipping the boob.

I'll finish this post off with the end of the day bike sculpture/group photo. This is only a handful of the riders who were there throughout the day.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #21

2011-05-16T22:15:00.003-04:00

I didn't have a photo for today yet so I went out earlier in search of something. But the weather wasn't very inspiring. I ended up in River Canard and thought I'd try some HDR's. I'm not crazy about this photo, mainly because I had to make an HDR for it to look interesting.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #20

2011-05-09T13:46:00.005-04:00

I've already posted this photo on facebook, but I didn't shoot anything else this week. So this is my best photo of the week, even though I usually try to make this post fresh, its better then rushing a junk photo for the sake of something brand new. This is Chase Davidson on a solid day of riding.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #19

2011-05-02T16:02:00.002-04:00

This is an HDR that I just re-editing. I had made an HDR of it the other day and while it looked really good, it was too "HDR" for my liking. So I toned it down a little to make the scene actually look the way it did to my eye.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #18

2011-04-25T13:32:00.002-04:00

We finally made it out to the track yesterday for the first time this year. I shot just a handful of photos because we were busy getting our own kart ready for the season. Also, there were only about 10 karts so there wasn't too much action yet.

Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #17

2011-04-18T17:32:00.003-04:00

I only had a bunch of photos I didn't really like this week. So I went out today to try and find some good photos. But the weather was boring and snowy. I shot this panorama at a small conservation area in LaSalle with a little lookout tower.

With winter still hanging around Hobo has been forced to spend even more of his day tucked under the covers. Just for the record he did this himself, I didn't stage this.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #16

2011-04-11T22:32:00.003-04:00

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #15

2011-04-04T23:40:00.004-04:00

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I almost forgot to post my photo for this week again, but I've got a few minutes left still. I was late last week because I left on Monday for a photo road trip and forgot all about it. I just got home tonight, so I have many more photos but here are a few of my favourites that I had edited already. The first is a random find I came across near Owen Sound. The sky was great that day. About the only good sky I got all week.

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One of the main places I had planned on visiting was the old Marmora Mine northeast of Peterborough. I shot this panorama one ugly rainy night just on a recon mission. I had planned on coming back and looking for the hole in the fence to do some real exploring, but the next day was uglier and I just never made it back.

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This gutted motel was along Hwy 7 near Marmora.

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I shot this panorama of Inglis Falls on my second day, along with a couple other waterfalls, but this was the best one.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #14

2011-03-30T21:50:00.003-04:00

I just realized I hadn't posted my photo yet this week. I left on Monday for a photo road trip and I forgot to post my photo. I've shot this location a few times before but this is by far my best attempt at it. Looking over Tecumseh and Windsor.

I'll make sure to post on time next week, I already have some awesome photos to show.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #13

2011-03-21T15:57:00.005-04:00

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I went out many times to shoot photos this week with minimal success. This is the only one I've taken in about 2 weeks that I like. I was out to shoot the "supermoon" rise but it turned out pretty boring. I shot this at sunset just before the moon rise.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #12

2011-03-14T23:45:00.002-04:00

Todd and I went out tonight for an aimless drive around the county. The sunset was mostly boring until the very end of it. I only took a few photos and I didn't love any of them but this is the best I got.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #11

2011-03-07T14:01:00.004-05:00

Last week I finally did something I've been meaning to do for a while, shoot from the top of a parking garage in downtown Windsor. One of the things I hate about this city is how flat it is. I always want to shoot photos from a higher vantage point. This weeks main photo is another panorama looking west towards the Ambassador Bridge.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #10

2011-02-28T18:09:00.003-05:00

I managed to get a nice sunset last week. When I set out the sky was dull but I was patient and it paid off. I couldn't find a whole lot for the foreground but this old gate provided some interest. The first shot is a panorama and the bonus photo below is a closer single shot. Thanks for looking.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #9

2011-02-21T15:17:00.004-05:00

I spent many hours this week driving around looking for interesting photos. This place was the only thing remotely interesting that I found. I wasn't happy with the sunset as there were no clouds. I hate cloudless sunsets. But its better than complete cloud cover like it's been most of the time lately.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #8

2011-02-14T20:51:00.004-05:00

I spend Friday night with my girlfriend Laura at the Retro Suites in Chatham. The room was neat, to say the least and it was obvious that we'd take a lot of photos. Laura was nice enough to pose for me so I could take photos of something I usually don't, people.

While she did her own self portraits I went outside to the back of the hotel for some photos I'm used to taking.

We came across this abandoned house (and some others) along Highway 3 on our way home. This is a 5-shot panorama.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #7

2011-02-07T13:56:00.004-05:00

I only managed one successful photo exploration this week. It seems like we got more snow this week than we have in the last few years. This photo was on a random dirt road somewhere near Woodslee, Ontario. It was unbearably cold and windy, causing the snow to drift continuously accross the road. I thought the drifting looked cool but I wasn't really able to capture it. But believe me it is happening all through the frame in this photo. Also, this image is a 5-photo HDR, I tried to keep it as simple as possible.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #6

2011-01-31T16:04:00.006-05:00

I finally had the chance to shoot a Windsor Spitfires game on Sunday. I picked the full arena anthem photo for my main photo because it fits better with my usual style of photography than the action shots.

This two part photo I shot manually because my camera is slow in burst mode, the way sports photography is usually done. This goal was obviouly called back immediately by the ref.

Windsor started out strong but eventually gave up the lead near the end of the game.

I spend the 2nd period at ice level but didn't manage to get too many action shots because Windsor spent most of the period in the penalty box, leaving them to defend their own zone the whole time.

Kitchener's goalie Brandon Maxwell punching the air at the sound of the final buzzer after holding off Windsor's failed last minute attempt to tie the game.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #5

2011-01-24T21:41:00.003-05:00

Today Todd and I went for a walk at Ojibway Park to find some deer. Eventually we saw one and starting shooting photos. I knew there had to be more nearby. Then another came out of the bushes. Then another. Within about 15 minutes there were 10-12 deer all around us. So here are my bests from the day. Enjoy.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #4

2011-01-17T17:37:00.004-05:00

I've got a couple photos for this week's post. My main photo is from Friday night. This is the very first photo I took that night.

This is the newest member of our family, Hobo. He raised himself in the forest. I set up some lighting and got him to sit still for about 5 photos.

My last photo is natural light falling on the lovely Laura Berry and her awesome red hair.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #3

2011-01-10T21:49:00.002-05:00

I ventured out into the county today, this time I didn't forget my camera battery so I was able to bring home a few decent images.

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Area 53 - 2011 - Photo #2

2011-01-03T11:22:00.004-05:00

I managed to catch a sunset the other day in the usual freezing cold. This is the on ramp to the EC Row expressway at Jefferson here in Windsor.

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2011 - Area 53 - Act II

2011-01-01T19:23:00.004-05:00

Welcome to 2011 and my first photo of this new segment of Todd and I's Area 53 photo project. This is the New Years Day photo from me. For the rest of the year, every Monday we'll each post a new photo from the week before. Today's photo is a bonus kick off photo (which makes for the '53').

So this is my New Years Eve photo courtesy of room 512 at the Hilton.

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Week 53

2010-12-27T21:39:00.004-05:00

Well, this is it. Photo 53. I wanted to get something really good for the final photo. So tonight I loaded up and headed out into the county to find a nice winter night scene to shoot. I finally found a nice spot on a random sideroad. I got out and set up in the freezing wind, turned the power switch to 'On' and nothing happened. It took me a second to realize my camera battery was still in its charger under my desk. At least I accomplished something in this final week, the biggest photo fail of the year for me. I suck at life.

Luckily I had this photo that I shot earlier in the week around 3am in the backyard. I like it, but its not what I wanted to post.

However, Todd and I have decided not only to continue with this photo a week theme, but we plan to put this years efforts together in a book. So look for that soon. Hopefully this year I won't top tonight's failure. See you in O'11.

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Week 52

2010-12-20T22:38:00.003-05:00

I drove around for awhile lastnight looking for a wintery photo. I didn't find anything I wanted to shoot, so I decided to do something I've been meaning to do anyway, take photos our our house and simple christmas lights. The first photo is a panorama. They didn't turn out like I had planned...sorry.

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Week 51

2010-12-13T18:06:00.004-05:00

My friend's band Planet World were in the studio this weekend recording their first song. I hung out for a bit on friday and shot some photos. This is Jim reviewing his drum tracks.

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Week 50

2010-12-06T19:40:00.003-05:00

This is me lastnight being the coldest I've been yet this winter. Good thing I found my gloves from last year.

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Week 49

2010-11-29T13:30:00.003-05:00

I went out into the cold lastnight after work to find some photos. I didn't have anything yet for my photo of the week. I had tried a few times throughout the week but it was always raining and ugly. I shot some of the ambassador bridge waiting for a boat to pass but finally gave up. When I got back to my car and started packing up a boat popped out of no where. So I quickly set up a shot. It's not the best but all I could do to get a decent shot. (below).

My main photo this week (and the rest, below) is from the industrial area of west Windsor. I tried a few different colour versions of this shot with flash gels but I liked this one best.

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Week 48

2010-11-22T12:31:00.002-05:00

The other night I went to Ojibway with the lovely Laura Berry to shoot some photos. It was well after dark so I decided to try some light painting. I didn't shoot much and my photos were no where as cool as Laura's. But it was fun and we even got snuck up on by a curious deer. Now I'm off to see if I can make some interesting photos today in the warm rain.

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Week 47

2010-11-15T14:52:00.003-05:00

Last week we had a lot a fog. So naturally I went out and shot some photos. I'm running late for work so I don't have time to write much. But I don't think they need much explaination.

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Week 46

2010-11-08T13:42:00.006-05:00

I went out the other night to shoot some taillight photos at the Walker Rd & Grand Marais underpass. I've shot here before but I thought I'd give it another try. I didn't stay too long because it was too cold and I couldn't find my gloves. Everytime winter comes back around I can't find the gloves I had bought the previous winter.

So my photo for this week is looking north along Walker Road with the Chrysler plant in the background. The second photo is the first one I shot this night and I thought it was cool. It's looking east down Grand Marais.

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Week 45

2010-11-01T16:01:00.003-04:00

This weekend I had the pleasure of waking up at 3am to be at work for 4 to make donuts. Sunday I brought my camera along because I knew I had to get a photo for this week.

I shot some at an old abandoned school house the other day. But I'm not posting them here because I already posted them elsewhere, and I figured I've had enough abandoned photos on here for a while. You can check them out on my Flickr.

So here are some tasty donuts to enjoy while I catch up on sleep.

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Week 44

2010-10-25T16:51:00.004-04:00

Another abandoned house, and another quick post this week. Seems like Mondays are always busy. I shot this on an overnight trip around the Sarnia area. It was quite a ways away from the road, with a long driveway. It looked abandoned but I wasn't sure until I got close, after about a hundred feet of weeds scraping along the underside of my car.

This photo is a very light HDR. I'm still not crazy about hdr's and I only do them if I can make them look realistic. I was going to post a non-hdr, but I just don't have the time to edit any right now. I still really like this one.

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Week 43

2010-10-18T19:26:00.002-04:00

This week I have a couple more abandoned houses I've found around the county. And once again I'm too lazy to write in detail about them. These houses weren't all that interesting. They were pretty much just empty as opposed to "abandoned".

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Week 42

2010-10-11T17:52:00.001-04:00

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Week 41

2010-10-04T16:27:00.001-04:00

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I didn't shoot much this last week. But I managed to get a handful of photos Wednesday at A and W's Cruise Night. Lots of nice old cars and a few that the owners should be shot for what they did to a once nice car.

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Week 40

2010-09-27T23:33:00.004-04:00

I'm cutting it close getting this post up, but I'm still working on these photos from today. I just edited some of the better ones so I could get them up before midnight. I've shot this old barn before (included an old photo of the outside from my first visit at the bottom of this post) But I never went inside before.

This time I went back with my new photo exploring partner Laura Berry to have a look around inside. From the outside it didn't look like there was a whole lot in there, but it was pretty interesting. Dead cats and all.

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Week 39

2010-09-20T23:37:00.003-04:00

I had a few days off last week so I took to the road for my last random summer road trip. This first shot is somewhere between Orillia and Midland (Ontario).

The second shot is at the Shamrock Motel in Midland, on my second night.

This last shot is from my first night in Orillia at the Kings Inn Motel. I thought the light bars over the beds were weird, but neat. So I tried to build a portrait around it.

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Week 38

2010-09-13T20:21:00.003-04:00

Not a whole lot to write about this week. I haven't shot much because I had been trying to get caught up on my editing, to some success. I went out and shot this one lastnight because I knew I had to have something for my post today. I don't love it, but I like it. The sunset was pretty weak and I was quite late getting out there.

I'm leaving in the morning for a couple days to drive around Ontario hunting photos, so next weeks post should be interesting.

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Week 37

2010-09-07T18:55:00.003-04:00

I apologize for being late once again with my weekly photo. I simply didn't have a chance to post this yesterday. I was at the E3 music festival all day (literaly) shooting photos. It was a big show put on by my Area 53 partner Todd, featuring Alexisonfire. I would post something from that, but I havent had the chance to starting working on them yet. I have about 400 from their set alone and around 800 from the whole day. I didnt get home until 2am, got to bed about 4, and had to work at 9.

This weeks photo is from a little test session I had by myself trying to figure out lighting. Not much to say about it really, its me in a field trying not to look like an idiot. I don't know how well i did. This week I have some light stands and reliable flash triggers coming in the mail, so things should only get better, except for my modeling.

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Week 36

2010-08-30T21:59:00.005-04:00

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I've shot this church in River Canard before but I found myself there after sunset the other night so I figured I'd shoot some more. This photo has a bit of photoshop done to it (hdr toning in cs5). However the original isnt that much different. I was going to post the regular version but my trial version of CS5 litterally just expired so I can't do anything else tonight.

(Edit: I got photoshop to work again, here is the same photo, straight-out-the-camera.)

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I had the weekend off so I took off Saturday morning down Highway 3. I didn't get many good photos though. There wasn't a single cloud the whole time, which makes for some boring photos. But I saw this house along Hwy 3 on my first day and thought I'd save it for the way back. I shot these this morning on my way home.

I was really interested in this house, it looks like it was quite fancy in its day. It also looks like its been empty for a very long time. I actually saw a lot of abandoned houses along the way but this one really stood out.

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Week 35

2010-08-23T23:21:00.003-04:00

I got a little lucky the other night driving around looking for photos to shoot. I happened to catch a little lightning and a train. I still haven't got any crazy lightning photos but I think they're getting better. The first photo is a train that I barely caught. I parked to shoot photos of some cows next to the tracks but as soon as I got out of the car I heard the train horn, so I set up in 5 seconds and fired this one off. I would have been better if I had some time to prepare. But I'm still happy with it.

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Week 34

2010-08-17T18:12:00.002-04:00

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I think this is my first time being late with my photo of the week. I've had them done for a few days now. I worked late yesterday, then had to go straight to the race track. My dad raced the first heat for me. (races start at 6 and I had to work until 6:30). I had a headache all day but I hoped once I got a race in I'd feel better, but it only made me feel much worse. I had to let my dad race the final heat and I went home violently ill.

After hosing vomit off the side of my car I passed out at about 7:30 and slept right through till 8am. Then I had to work at 9 today.

Anyway, enough of my complaining. Both of these photos were shot on the same night, driving aimlessly around the county, ending up in Amherstburg. The second is this week's manditory panorama. It's alright, but I feel like theres something missing.

That is all.

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Week 33

2010-08-09T22:44:00.003-04:00

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I didn't shoot much this week. I used my time wisely to catch up on some editing instead. These shoots are from Friday night at St. Rose park here in Windsor.

Both photos are essensially the same, in a way. The first is the tight version, and the second is the mandatory panoramic. Anyway, thats all I have the energy for tonight.

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Week 32 - Random Aimless Road Trip

2010-08-02T22:26:00.003-04:00

As usual I'm posting these photos quickly and I don't have a lot of time to tell a story here. I had the long weekend off so after work on Friday I skipped town with no fixed destination. I avoided the tourist areas because I knew I wouldn't be able to find a place to stay.

The first two photos are panorama's from random side roads. The last is of Eugenia Falls south of Collingwood. I've been here before but never got any good shots of it. I tried going there the last trip I was on a few months ago, But couldn't seem to find it, so I moved on.

Anyway, thats about all I have for this week...hoping my next road trip is longer than a few days.

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Week 31

2010-07-26T21:31:00.004-04:00

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At least twice a year all us BMX'ers in Windsor and the surrounding area gather at the Skate Park in Forest Glade for what we call a Bike Jam. This one was supposed to be on Saturday but because of bad weather it was pushed back to Sunday. I had to work so I got there late.

By the time I was there most of the crazy tricks already went down so I only shot a few photos, including this panoramic during sunset. Its not the best angle of the park but I wanted to get the setting sun in the shot.

The other two photos this week are from my random evening journeys around the county. Enjoy.

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Week 30

2010-07-19T22:17:00.002-04:00

Every year my friend Kevin has a party out in the county. Usually its in St. Joachim at his parents place, but this year he had his own house to throw it at, in Stoney Point. Check out the photos from last year's Kevstock. This weeks photo is a panoramic from the middle of the front yard. Usually there are a lot more people, but this year was a little light. Even I had to leave early thanks to work in the morning, but otherwise I would have went all night like I usually do at Kevstock.

I shot a lot of photos this week, but as usual I have no time to work on them. So these are just the couple I had edited already. This second shot is out around Leamington somewhere just as a storm was blowing in.

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Week 29

2010-07-12T19:24:00.001-04:00

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Week 28

2010-07-05T22:33:00.002-04:00

I had planned on posting much more this week, but I've got about 5 minutes to spare before I go to bed. So I'll explain quickly. On Thursday Eric Favot threw a little BMX ramp demo downtown at the Freedom Festival (or whatever they call it now). My main photo is Ian Christison from Toronto goin tall with a lookback on the quarter. The second photo is Ian as well.

The photo below is Chase Davidson with a 360. I have some better shots of Chase, trick-wise, but I haven't had time to get to them. I've only edited a handful of the photos from the day.

Last is Eric Favot barspinning the box jump. Again, I have photos of much crazier tricks, but I really like this one still. The rest of the photos from the demo will be up on facebook soon.

Until next time, check out Todd's Photo. He's in NYC right now so I'm sure he's got something interesting.

Week 27

2010-06-28T15:16:00.002-04:00

Nothing too fancy for this week. I went out a few times to shoot photos but I didn't get anything I was very happy with. This is my favourite of the few I had. Not much to say about it except to take note of the full moon sneaking up behind the trees on the left.

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Week 26

2010-06-21T22:14:00.003-04:00

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Friday night I went out storm chasing yet again. Actually I wasn't really chasing. I drove out of the city and waited for the storm to show up. I found this random little gas station and hoped to get some lighting. But all I got was a little flash lightning. So this photo isn't as good as I hoped it would be, but its still a good night photo, with the semi-truck passing.

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I shot this photo the night before while trying to get some tail light shots along EC Row here in Windsor. None of my intended photos turned out very good, but I like this one a lot.

I should probably be trying to get some interesting photos of the huge fireworks show going on downtown as I write this, but I just got done work and have to start again early tomorrow. So instead of I'm watching it live on TV.

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Week 25

2010-06-14T14:14:00.003-04:00

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I already had some photos ready for this blog, but I got some better ones last night. My new favourite thing is driving around the county aimlessly looking for interesting photos. There's not much logic to my process. I try to find the lesser populated roads and explore those.

Although these photos aren't really from empty roads. The first is one I've been meaning to shoot for a while now, the old dock for the Boblo Island ferry that has been abandoned since 1993.

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These next two photos are just off the highway in Maidstone, Ontario. My dad had mentioned this spot to me earlier in the day, and on my aimless drive back from Amherstburg I found myself driving by it. So I stopped and spent quite some time roaming around the field with mosquito's buzzing in my ears.

The above photo is a 6-shot panoramic and the bottom one is a 9-shot. On the second one I walked quite a ways back into the field in order to fit everything in. The road is in the far background. You can see my car parked, dead center.

I have some other good ones from this spot but I just don't have time to process them all right now. Plus I should save some of them for furture use. I think I'm up to about 15 folders of photos I haven't finished editing yet and my computer is out of space.

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Week 24

2010-06-07T23:25:00.004-04:00

My lightning photos from Friday night don't compare to what Todd caught, but they're still my personal bests to date. On my way home from work Friday night the lighting really started hitting hard, so with my new car I knew I'd be stopping at home to pick up my camera then speeding out of the city, hopefully to get ahead of the storm so I could get set up somewhere nice and fire off some photos before the rain came.

On my way out of the city the lighting was hitting all around me, non-stop. While stopped at a light out in the county I saw a flash, followed by another bright green flash, out of the corner of my eye. I looked just in time to see sparks showering off a telephone pole and a cloud of black smoke floating into the air. I wanted to investigate further but I didn't see much other than the smoke, and I really wasn't feeling brave enough to get out of the car right there.

So I raced on as bolts hit the farm fields on both sides of me. Unfortunately, by the time I decided to pull over and shoot some photos, the storm had calmed down a lot. I still managed to get a few decent bolts in the distance.

I pretty much spent the whole weekend driving around the county chasing storm clouds and sunsets. The above shot is from somewhere between Harrow and Amherstburg after sunset. This is from Saturday night.

This shot I thought I'd throw in to mix things up. Its from Tuesday night at 13-stair set on Huron Church Road in Windsor. (Yes, he landed it).

This is from Sunday night after a rainstorm. Try to find the rainbow. There was more of it, but by the time I found a place to pull over it was starting to disappear.

One last thing, I thought I'd throw this in here as well. This is a timelapse of the last storm clouds passing over Kingsville, Ontario.

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Week 23 - The ongoing quest for lightning

2010-05-31T19:42:00.002-04:00

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I've been trying to get some good lightning photos for about 10 years now. Unfortunately I still haven't got anything good. A small storm rolled through last Thursday night so I headed out to see what I could find. I saw some good bolts on my drive out but by the time I got set up there wasn't much more than some flashes in the distance.

My main photo for this week was one of the last ones I took after the storm had passed. I added a second photo below, its the best one I got of a little lightning (just above the tree tops on both sides).

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On another note I finally bought a car, so my subject matter should improve a little as I now have a better means of getting out of the city, instead of relying on borrowing my parents van.

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Week 22

2010-05-24T12:37:00.004-04:00

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With my 27th birthday passing yesterday, it's been a year now that I've had this blog going. It has changed a bit since my initial plan to post a photo everyday for a year, but I'm still at it. This week's photo is from a random journey I took driving around side roads just outside of Windsor. I couldn't tell where it is exactly though. I got a little lost in the process, but I enjoy that.

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Week 21

2010-05-17T22:54:00.002-04:00

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I almost when to bed without posting my photo for this week. Not much interesting to say about it I guess. I've taken a lot of photos this past week but this is the only one I had edited and ready to go. Since my computer took about 5 minutes just to open this browser to do this, I'm not even going to try and open photoshop to get anything else.

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Week 20 - 100th post

2010-05-10T21:33:00.003-04:00

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This is my 100th blog post since I started posting on here last year on my birthday. Just thought I'd celebrate that for a second before I get to my story.

So, a couple of weeks ago I was at work and got a call from one of the supervisors asking if I could work an upcoming Sunday shift. As I thought about it for a second, she added "its your weekend off." Weekend off? I thought. So I stalled long enough and she told me to think about it and get back to her.

I immediately ran to the back to check the schedule for that weekend. Turns out I had that Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday off. "Road Trip," said a voice in my head.

I ended up picking up that Sunday shift because I needed another shift off in order to work the Windsor Spitfires game. So I still had 3 solid days off. I worked Wednesday at 4am until noon. So when I got off I rented a car, packed it up and went to bed around 7pm in order to get an early start Thursday morning.

I was ready to leave by 6am. As I was on my way out the phone began to ring, it was work calling, presumably to see if I could work for someone who called in sick. I shot the phone the finger in a comedic fashion and slipped out the back door.

I didn't have much of a plan for where I was going. I just knew I was heading north (pretty much the only option, unless you're going to the states).

So, to make this quick, as I've already wrote more than I planned. I went as far as Wasaga Beach, zig zagging my way through back roads. I drove a total of 1600kms and got lost almost as many times as I wanted to.

I haven't even got to editing the photos yet, aside from these two. The first is a random barn on a sideroad that I came across in the brief break from pouring rain, snow and 60mph winds. I shot a bunch of this barn, but this one is made up of two different exposures. One I exposed for the sky, the other for the barn/grass. Then blended the two.

The second is a 5-photo panoramic. Aside from stitching the 5 photos together there's very minimal photoshop done. (Just levels, and unsharp mask).

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Week 19

2010-05-03T21:58:00.002-04:00

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I don't have time for a long post, as I should be in bed already. But here's a quick shot from Saturday at Todd's book launch party for Major League Anxiety. Todd is on drums, jamming out some Weezer with Daniel Victor of Neverending White Lights.

Week 18

2010-04-26T21:07:00.003-04:00

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I spent my Friday night in a field surrounded by power lines, train tracks and the Windsor Airport. I started by shooting some photos of the big red and white power lines that look like a giant swing set. After a few minutes a train showed up to move some boxcars around. While I was shooting the train, the airport's runway lit up.

I set up a shot of the airport, waiting for the plane to come. Finally, with little warning a medium sized passenger plane roared over me on its way to a safe landing. I got a good photo of the plane landing (basically a streak of light descending to the ground). I also got a neat shot of the train moving some boxcars. But I want to save those photos for a future project.

So here are a couple of photos to sum up my Friday night.

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Photo #17 - Sweet, Sweet Photoshop

2010-04-19T13:19:00.002-04:00

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I didn't really shoot much this past week. I shot a handful of photos at the Kart track on Saturday, but I didn't get anything too interesting. Usually I don't like doing too much to my photos in Photoshop, but I thought I'd try some things to make this photo look interesting enough to use for my weekly photo.

I processed two versions of this photo from the RAW file. One I made really dark, and the other I lightened up a little. Then, in Photoshop I put the the dark sky together with the light forground.

Hopefully I'll have some time to get out and shoot some more photos this week. I'm planning to do some more night photos again soon. I haven't done much night stuff lately and its my favourite type of photography.

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Week 16 - Bestech Racing

2010-04-12T11:06:00.003-04:00

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Last summer my dad and I got back into kart racing (my second time back, his third). A group of guys got together and built a small dirt oval track just outside of the city. It started out as a cheap fun way to go racing, but as more and more people started racing out there the competition went up and so did the budgets.

We kept it fairly simple and spent a lot less money than the front runners. But we still did very well. I ended up tied for 7th in the points out of more than 40 drivers. My dad finished the season 2nd in the seniors class.

Over the winter my dad put in a lot of work to get the kart updated and ready for the 2010 season. I wish I could say I had more to do with it, but he put in 95% (if not more) of the work and money to took to get it looking (and running) good.

This season there are a lot more drivers and some pretty big budgets, so we'll see how we stack up against them. This past Saturday we took the kart out to the track for the first time. (April is all practice and fun racing, with the season officially starting on the first Monday night in May). So, Friday night I did a little photo session with the kart in the garage before we took it to the track and got it dirty.

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Week 15

2010-04-05T15:09:00.003-04:00

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On Tuesday I had my first day off in over two weeks so I made the best of it and headed to the skatepark with my bike and camera. It was the first time back on my bike since at least November. I rode a little to shake off the cobwebs then I brought out my camera. Most of the regulars were there and ready to throw down for some photos.

My main photo this week is Chase Davidson throwing a tailwhip while Ryan gets stoked (and tipsy). I threw in some bonus photos of the day fading into night. Enjoy.

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Photo 14

2010-03-29T18:52:00.003-04:00

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Last week Todd got a 17th floor hotel room for a few nights so he could buckle down and finish up the book we've had in the works for a while now. I took advantage of the view to get some slightly different perspective photos of the Detroit skyline. I didn't really want to use another Detroit photo for my post this week, because even I'm getting tired of them. But I hardly had time to sleep this week, let alone shoot some different photos. I'm fighting my eyelids as I type this.

Here's a bonus shot with some dimension, physically and figuratively. Another view of the skyline with Todd hard at work on the computer and Brigham on the other side talking to his girlfriend on the phone.

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Photo #13

2010-03-22T17:20:00.003-04:00

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After work on Friday night I went out to a warehouse where some local skaters have some ramps set up. Steve Stiller, who runs Skate Windsor asked me to come out and shoot some photos for the website. Check out their Website (under construction) and the facebook page.

My main photo for this week is from a game of D.O.G. the guys were playin on flatground. All night my flashes kept creeping into my photos because they won't trigger if they're not in fair sight of my camera's pop-up flash (which triggers the others wirelessly). So eventually I just decided to set up some photos with the flashes in them on purpose, at least then I could predict it.

I haven't even got to editing them all yet. But I quickly edited a few just so I could post them today. I probably won't get to the rest for another week. Thanks, day job.

Here's a bonus photo from the same night. I decided to get fancy and try some colored lighting with my homemade flash gels.

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Also, I wish I could tell you the names of these skaters but I forget. I know them all casually from hanging out at the skate park but I'm terrible at remembering names.

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Area 53 Photo Project - Week #12

2010-03-15T21:15:00.004-04:00

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Last night after work I had my friends from Lung Diary over to the garage/photo studio do get some band photos done. It was a good chance to try out my newest photography toy, a roll of 9-foot wide white background paper.

I quickly learned I need more flashes. I currently have 2, but you really need 2 just to light up the background properly if you want a pure white effect. But I think I did alright considering.

I wish the Christmas lights idea was mine, but they came up with it themselves. They pretty much played around with whatever was hanging on the walls in the garage. I've got many other cool shots but I've only had time to edit a handful of them so far.

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Area 53 Photo Project - Week #11

2010-03-08T20:26:00.002-05:00

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I haven't had much time to take photos lately. But I managed to squeeze in a couple hours of light hunting on a muddy trail after work. Lately I've been shooting mostly night photos, so I think these are a nice change. Lots of sunlight, but with the night closing in.

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Photo #10

2010-03-01T21:27:00.006-05:00

Tuesday night I headed out on foot to do some photo exploring. I went to a somewhat industrial area within walking distance from my house and started a journey along the train tracks in deep snow. As soon as I found the first place to start taking photos a nice fog rolled in.

At first it was a thin layer of fog at about eye level. If I bent down I could look under the fog and see all the way down the train tracks, but if I stood up straight I could only see about 50 feet.

The fog kept up for awhile, changing shape and density. Before I knew it I had spent 3 hours wandering around the train tracks and a nearby field. All the photos here are from that night. I have plenty more good shots but I thought this was enough to post for now. Enjoy.

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Week Nine

2010-02-22T23:11:00.003-05:00

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This is my latest entry so far, with less than an hour to spare. Not much to say about this...It was from a few quick shots on my way to a friends house tonight. I wanted to shoot more but no cars were coming. They all came once I packed up and continued walking.

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Photo #8

2010-02-15T20:37:00.004-05:00

I was running out of time today and knew I had to get a photo done. I was going to do some sunset photos because the moon was supposed to be good tonight just after sunset, along with Jupiter and Venus burning bright. But as the afternoon closed out the sky was nothing but overcast.

So I figured I'd try something different from my usual photos here. I went out to the cold garage and set up my lighting. I hung one flash from the rafters with a new homemade softbox (big cardboard box with a table cloth over the front). I shot a lot of different variations but I liked this one best, with a second flash at camera left, powered down from the main light, and with a snoot on it (as not to light up all the garage junk behind me).

That's all for this week.

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Photo #7

2010-02-08T19:20:00.007-05:00

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Last night Todd and I finally got together to shoot some photos together. We had planned on going out somewhere but we had a hard time getting inspired. So instead of venturing out into the cold city night, we decided to shoot some photos from Todd's scenic front yard, at least compared to mine.

I've always liked the view off this porch. Rivard Avenue twists back and forth and disappears between the houses. I've shot some photos here before and really liked the results, so I've always planned on doing more.

In my main photo I was trying to do something a little different. This is the stop sign in front of Todd's place, on Haig, where it intersects with Rivard.

The Bonus photos are just a couple different angles. The first is Todd's front yard, the second is looking North down along Rivard's twists and turns.

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Photo #6 - Full Moon

2010-02-01T14:39:00.002-05:00

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Once again I spent my Saturday night in the cold amongst the darkness. It was a full moon and well below Zero, so I piled on layers of clothing and headed out with my camera and tripod. I didn't know where I was going, so I headed in the general direction I usually go to take photos, along Riverside Drive.

My first idea was to go to the beach and see what it looked like out there. But once I got there it just didn't do it for me. Then I remembered a place I've been meaning to check out. One of the 3 hills this city has to offer, just off Banwell road, which I believe is the border between Windsor and Tecumseh. So I was technically just outside of Windsor.

My photo this week is fairly simple, a tree with the full moon and stars hanging overhead. I wanted to get the moon in more shots, but at the time (around midnight) the moon was almost directly overhead, making it hard to get it into a photo with any kind of foreground, even with the fisheye lens.

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This photo is looking West, across the top of Windsor. I really liked the way all the houses in the foreground looked. They're all new identical duplexes laid out very symmetrically. For the rest of the night I had the theme song from "Weeds" stuck in my head.

When you look at the large version of this photo you can see the Ambassador Bridge way at the back, miles away. It also shows how flat this city is, and why I was so excited to shoot some photos on a hill, even if its only 40 or 50 feet high.

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Not to much to say about this last photo. This is looking North across the landscape of this small hill. What I really like about this photo (more so in the large version) is the stars in the sky. Not a bad collection of stars considering the city glow creeping in from the East. Thanks for looking.

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Photo #5

2010-01-25T13:17:00.005-05:00

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With nothing to do on Saturday night after work I decided I better make the best of the night and go light hunting. I waited until about 11:30, hoping the clouds would lift a little so I could get a low hanging moon in my photos, but it didn't happen. Although as soon as I got home, I went out for a cigarette and saw a huge setting moon breaking through the clouds over the rooftops in the direction of Detroit. Thanks Moon.

I already knew where I wanted to go. A place I've always had in the back of my mind but never actually bothered to go for photos, Goose Bay. It's really nothing special in relation to the many places along Riverside Drive but its a nice quiet place aside from the traffic along the Drive.

Right away it lived up to its name as there where about 30 Geese sitting along the ice in the bay talking amongst themselves. I spent about 2 hours there which seemed like less than one. My main photo for this weak is a little cliché but I think it is the best of the series for impact and technical quality. The ever present Detroit Skyline. As a Windsor photographer I've shot this skyline many times but this is my favourite so far. I was hoping for a ship to pass along the river while I was there but no such luck, another time perhaps.

On to the bonus photos. The first is one of the last I shot. I tried to get as close to the Geese as I could without disturbing them, but they started honking and slowly made their way into the safety of the open water. This is about a 10 second exposure of the Geese leaving.

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This last photo is one of the first I shot on this outing. This is a seven-photo panoramic stitched together in Photoshop. This is Goose Bay, looking south-east with headlights streaking along Riverside Drive. The very left of this photo (on the other side of the bay) is where I shot the skyline photo from, facing the opposite direction...if that makes sense.

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Thats it...I think that's more than I meant to write about this week. But thats a good thing, I've been meaning to do more writing, if you can call it that.

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Photo #4

2010-01-18T17:15:00.006-05:00

I had shot some photos Friday night around sunset but I wasn't really happy with them. The sunset itself was completely hidden by overcast so I hung around until twilight set in, adding some pink and blue to the overcast clouds. The colors were nice but I still wasn't very impressed with any of my photos (But I included one below as a bonus anyway).

Last night I was walking home from my friends place at about 10 pm and it was quite foggy. So I started brainstorming places to go shoot some foggy night photos. I got home and browsed around on Google Earth for some ideas. I decided to go to a nearby marina where there's a lighthouse.

I headed out at midnight, but by then the fog had lifted and the sky was full of nothing but stars. When I got to the marina the lighthouse wasn't lit up. So no fog and no lights on the lighthouse squashed my brainstorm. Instead I headed down Riverside Drive to a place I've shot at a few times before, St. Rose Beach. Why they call it a beach is beyond me. Its more of a cove with lots of large rocks along the shoreline with a small peir jetting out about 40 feet into the Detroit River.

I wanted to try something a little different with my night photography, so I attempted a panoramic perspective (above). This photo is four separate shots stitched together in photoshop. This is the only pano I attempted and I think it turned out pretty well.

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Weekly Photo #3

2010-01-11T13:22:00.004-05:00

I went out last Tuesday to shoot some photos of the sunset but there wasn't much of one. So instead I waited in the cold until it started getting dark enough to shoot taillights. With each photo the sky got darker, allowing progressively longer shutter speeds, (thus, longer streaks of taillights). I wanted to keep shooting well into nightfall, but fearing for the health of my frozen feet inside a single layer of sock/skate shoe, I headed home shortly after this photo.

Here's a few bonus photos from last week as well. First two are from Lung Diary's band practice at Kev's new house in Stoney Point on Saturday. The last is just a nice quiet spot along the train tracks near Todd's house that he told me about. Well I knew about it, but he helped me shave off some time getting to it. Every fence has a hole.

Week One

2010-01-04T12:41:00.003-05:00

Here is my contribution for week one of Todd and I's "Area 53" photo project. There will be 53 Photos in total by the end of the year, a photo a week for the whole year, plus the bonus one. There may be some other "bonus" photos along the way too. I'm certain to have more than just one photo to post some weeks.

I shot this photo last night on a table in my bedroom. I used black bristol board for the background and shot 3 different photos of the same candle. I used a flash overhead with a snoot and a different color gel for each position. Then I brought the 3 photos into photoshop and stacked them together. I didn't alter the position of the candles in photoshop, I actually shot them where I wanted them to be in the frame.

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New Website

2010-01-02T12:47:00.003-05:00

After about a year with my old simple website design I figured it was just about the right time to step it up a little.I spent the last few weeks of 2009 working on it and I launched it yesterday. That's why this blog has been so quiet.

My friend Todd Shearon and I decided to challenge each other with a Photo of the Week project to keep us motivated and help us become better photographers. The plan is to post a new photo every Monday that we shot the week before. Here is my first photo I posted as a kick off.

This is kind of a bonus photo because the actual thing won't actually start until this Monday.

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2009-12-18T13:51:00.002-05:00

Its been too long since my last post so I found something fitting to throw up. I simply haven't shot anything new worth posting, so I dug this one up from almost exactly a year ago.

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This area is one of my favourite close places to go when I can't think of anywhere else interesting. I've never got any really good photos there but its just a nice quiet place to be. There's coyotes, bald eagles, and usually hundreds of geese. The only time I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a coyote was a kilometer or two away from where this photo was taken.

It was about 2am and I was shooting night photos at the beach along Riverside Drive. I looked down the beach and saw the silhouette of a dog sprint through the light of a street lamp, under a fence and into the darkness beside the old abandoned Riverside Brewery. At first I thought it was a dog, but then I noticed the thick bushy tail.

As a bonus I thought I'd add a photo from that night. Here is the Riverside Brewery building looking in the direction I saw the coyote. It was in the area of the lower left of the photo.