I spent the afternoon with my father last weekend driving around the backroads of The County looking for some old barns to photograph. This was the result.
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I have learned that while visiting my parents in The County I should keep my camera at the ready as there always seems to be interesting things to see there. On my most recent trip I had gone into Belleville to run some errands for my father, while driving back I was stopped waiting for the road construction crew to let traffic through. In the oncoming lane a bright red car slowly passed by, with three shaggy dogs sticking their heads out the rear window enjoying a beautiful spring day. I wished I had my camera ready as I would love to have that photo. As soon as I passed the construction I pulled over, dug out my my camera and put it on the seat next to me so I would be ready the next time. (which turned out to be about 10 minutes later).
I was driving down one of the side roads when I saw a farm with some horses that was quite close to the road. I pulled onto the shoulder, parked and began to take a few shots. I was using my telephoto lens (70-300mm) as I didn’t want to intrude on someone else's property. Very quickly, a dog came out and started barking at me, and I thought ‘That’s it, I’m outta here’. As I was pulling away, I saw the farmer walking over to the dog and he was looking at me. I quickly pulled over, got out of the car and explained that I was just taking a couple of photos of his horses. In true County fashion he says “No problem. Park in the driveway here and come on over”. Wes, (my new farmer friend), proceeded to explain the differences between all the horses and let me take as many shots as I wanted. He even got some corn meal from the barn to entice the horses over to the fence for me. Wes was clearly proud of his beautiful animals and invited me back anytime. In retrospect, I wish I had got a photo of him as well as the horses. Over the Easter weekend I went to visit my parents in Prince Edward County. Due to its location "The County" as it's know to the locals, is a great location for photographing birds in the spring as they migrate. Of course, the several birdhouses on their property didn't hurt either. My father built the white purple martin house in the sky, and my uncle built the cedar one.
I went hiking trying to photograph wildlife. I wasn't successful with that however I did manage to catch this couple ahead of me on the trail.
I shot these while hiking along the Bruce Trail in Stoney Creek. I started out looking for one of the hundred or so waterfalls in Hamilton, but kept seeing and hearing birds all around me in the woods. I switched to my zoom lens and started to take photos of the birds.
I processed the photos with Adobe Lightroom to achieve this effect. During the winter solstice we experienced a full lunar eclipse. I bundled up and headed to a nearby park to try and photograph it. I lasted until about halfway through the first part and couldn't handle the cold any more.
In October of 2010 I took the train from Toronto to Vancouver, a fantastic experience. Unfortunately the weather wasn't the best for the first couple of days, a lot of clouds which makes taking photos from a moving train difficult. When we started into the mountains the sun did come out for a few hours and I was able to get some decent shots.
These are from hiking through Mount Nemo conservation area. I was about a week too late, a lot of the trees had already lost their leaves.
As part of a class I took in 2010 we had to select one subject shoot only that subject. I chose water and try to show it in different forms here.
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