During our visit to the market, we walked around the Whyte Ave, which I think is the only avenue in Edmonton that actually has any pedestrian traffic. It’s always jammed up with people. No surprise, when you have cafes, open style restaurants, bars, and vendors (mostly art) lining the avenue. Since I was hip shooting, [...]
I guess every hospital has it share of stories, scares, and ghosts. Walking the corridors today was specially fright full.
So as many of you know, I’ve stuck in a hospital for a week now. Why? Just some small problem with a screwed up heart valve, that an operation will fix up in a jiffy . This means of course that I don’t have my normal gear here with me, so I have to use [...]
The new Art Gallery of Alberta is certainly very photogenic building. Specially when sunlight seeps thought the many windows creating wonderful shadows inside. Enjoy.
A new building and a new name. Art Gallery of Alberta used to be called Edmonton Art Gallery. The new building was designed by Randall Stout Architects and it finally opened in January of 2010. It is a very strange building, and definitely a sight to behold. There are divided opinion on the building, personally [...]
I have managed to move my entire blog to another hosting location. I have chosen InMotion Hosting for several reasons, and so far I’m pretty happy the performance of the server, and particularly their technical support. I was able to talk to a tech at 3:00am in the morning to resolve some issues with the [...]
I found this great little app for the iPhone, called Hipstamatic. It’s a combination of old film, lenses, and flashes from old manual cameras. It can create some very interesting effects with your photos. I’ve been playing around with it for a bit, and I really like it. You can pair up different lenses and [...]
Here are some shots taken at Disneyland, that don’t really fit into any category. Just walking around the park and snapping pictures. Enjoy.
So our vacation has started. It’s promising to be a great time. Lots of fun and one meeting that will be most exciting (for me that is). I will post on that later though. Today I finally was able to test a little camera I got for my older child a while back. It’s [...]
So just in time for new year resolutions, that no one ever keeps, I decided to go back in time. A long way back in time. I’m talking about 15 years at least. This is how long I had this Russian relic, this wonder of Russian technology and optics, this marvel of weight and noise. [...]
It’s that time of year again. The weekend in Edmonton was very very cold. Temperatures reaching -40C with windchill, were a perfect excuse to stay indoors watch a movie or two, play some games with the kids, and just enjoy the warmth and the fragrance of a fresh Christmas tree. Here are some shots taken [...]
Yesterday evening I glimpsed this big orange thing in the eastern sky. Of course by the time I got my tripod, and fitted my long zoom lens on the camera, and set everything up, it wasn’t as orange or as big anymore. Still I was able to capture this shot of our natural satellite. Maybe [...]
I have always been fascinated with fire. The dance of the flame as it consumes it’s fuel, poetry in motion. Tonight we decided to have dinner or supper as some may prefer, outside in our yard. The weather was quite nice, albeit a little chilly, but a nice roaring fire soon fixed that. What a [...]
I wanted to try this type of photo for a long while, just never got around to it. So last night I decided to force my wife to drive, and I sat in the back seat with my camera wedged between the seats. The camera has to be very secure in the car, because the [...]
Saturday morning, and for some reason I could not sleep. So instead of tossing and turning I got dressed and went for a little drive to Wabamum Lake. Well 80km one way is a little drive in Alberta standards. I had no plans for a shoot… just something ad hoc. Since it was still dark [...]
On our recent trip to Yellowknife, I had a great opportunity to take my good friend’s BMW M3 for a spin. I must say, that it was an amazing experience. I was able to snag some shots of it, but I think these came out the best. To me they show the hidden dark power [...]
Yesterday was a perfect day for blowing bubbles in Edmonton. Hardly any wind, nice and warm. A perfect summer day. Face it, does not matter ho old I am, I’m always mesmerized with the slowly floating, color swirling, gentle, fragile, soap bubbles. Kids were having a hoot running around the yard popping them, so I [...]
Took this shot while on the walk around Edmonton downtown. You can always wonder where these stairs are leading to. Enjoy!
I’ve decided to change things a little. I know everyone is waiting impatiently for Nikki’s Part 2 , which is in the works. So in the mean time here are some real textures from the land of oil, which is Fort McMurray. Enjoy! I promise, Nikki is coming back
I have ordered a new set of Cactus Wireless flash triggers for a friend, and they arrived today. These are new version of the ones I ordered not too long ago. I must say that the improvement in build quality is very apparent. I wanted to test them to see how they compared to the [...]
I’m a little disappointed. I was hoping for a little better results, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Canon 5D, ISO 50, 1/160 sec, f/4.5, 17mm A friend of mine and me went out to check out two abandoned farms he found during his travels. The first one was in the middle of [...]
This is was more of a test shot, then a finished project. I decided to shoot my kids in a board room meeting. It would have been better to have the multiple person, wearing different outfits for each shot, and also having some drinks or papers on the table. Again this was just a test [...]
My brother in law wanted to have a nice holiday at the beginning of this year. So he and his wife decided to visit Egypt and the pyramids. Apparently they had a blast. From the pictures that he sent to me one struck me with a little cry for help. I asked his permission if [...]
While following Gregor Rohring’s very interesting blog, I’ve noticed that he made some very cool fake miniature pictures. I was intrigued. So I scoured the net for instructions on how to make these. These type of pictures are fairly easy to make in Adobe Photoshop. I will not go into details here on how to [...]
I was thinking about this project for a while now. Actually since I saw Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir amazing photos. So I decided to give it a try. I think I should have used less intersecting objects, like the table and the picture in the background. I will have to experiment with the exposure, because overall it [...]
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