Week 40

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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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