52 of 2014 - Week 32

52 of 2014 - Week 32

Theme is Birthdays - it could be Mount Baker's birthday.  You don't know.

52 of 2013 - Week 2

52 of 2013 - Week 2. Picaboo's theme for the week is 'Winter Activities'. My Focus 52 - Pixel Project theme is 'Landscape', focusing on where we live. I don't get out much at this time of year; I tend to hibernate. So these are the best I was going to get. The first shot is a similar shot to one I posted a few weeks ago, when we had a lot of snow (relatively). No snow now, but it's COLD (again, relatively). The second shot is mountains that you can see from behind our house. I was going to crop out the random trees and side of a townhouse, but I liked how they sort of framed the mountain shot, so I dumped the cropped shot.  The third shot is of a tiny marina, down the street from where I work.  There are gorgeous marinas around Metro Vancouver, but this was closest and this is where I went.  Turns out I hugely underestimated how cold it was on the water that morning!  Brrr! 

Taken with my Canon PowerShot G12 (the fancy point and shoot), edited with Photoshop and PicMonkey.

366 of 2012 - Day 65

366 of 2012 - Day 65. Weeb is staying a few blocks from home, at a friend's house, during the Teachers' Strike. This is the view from their backyard at the moment.

Taken with my Canon PowerShot G12, f/4.5, 1/640 sec., ISO-80, 30 mm focal length, max aperture 4.34375, no flash, camera hand held. Applied Unsharp Mask Filter and High Pass Filter and adjusted Exposure slightly, using Photoshop when I cropped and added text.

Picaboo's new Weekly Challenge is up. Photography Basics - How To Choose a Lens / Theme: Shapes.

THE MOUNTAINS

I tried to get a picture of the awesome mountains as I was on the way to work this morning. It didn't work out very well, but I did get a chance to test out my manual photography skills compared to the automatic setting on my camera. It annoyed me because I was obviously not getting something, but then I think I figured out what I was doing wrong, later in the day.

Then I just accepted the fact that I was trying to take a picture of mountains that are 45 kms away with a point and shoot camera.

I think (though I'm not positive) that this is Mount Seymour.