Archive for February, 2008
Lunar Eclipse Mosaic
Feb 21st
Well I had a free night, so I thought I’d give shooting tonight’s Lunar Eclipse a try. I think I did alright, with quite a few images turning out okay. Probably the toughest shots were the ones where there was still a bunch of the moon not eclipsed yet. My telephoto only goes to 200mm (multiplied by 1.6 for my rebel XT), so I wasn’t really able to get up close to the moon. I decided that each photo on its own wasn’t all that amazing, but put in a mosaic seemed okay so that’s what I did. Hope you like it!
Clareview Sunset
Feb 20th
I was coming home last night and had to stop to take some photos of the beautiful sunset. I think it turned out pretty well, what do you think?
Sunshine Mountain Village
Feb 19th
More focussed on the village itself this time than the surrounding landscape. It’s a beautiful area isn’t it?
Sonata Arctica Show Review
Feb 18th
This was a long time coming. I’ve been so busy this last week that I haven’t had a chance to talk about the latest Sonata Arctica concert here in Edmonton.
SA made their second appearance in two years at Edmonton’s Starlite room last week. I was able to get tickets and go, so I continued to support the band’s efforts to increase their North American fanbase. If they keep coming back they should do just that … this show was sold out!
My only real complaint about the show was that it was too short. They got on stage late due to the doors opening at 8:00pm, and two opening bands on the slate. The first opening band “The Order Chaos” was not too bad. They only played three songs, but I might have to look into their music a little more to see if I like it. The second band was called “Sanctity”, and they were … almost as different from Sonata Arctica as you could get and still stay in the same genre of music. Sure they had metal riffs on the guitars, but where Sonata Arctica is classy, melodic, and appealing, Sanctity was rude, crass, and unappealing. I couldn’t wait for them to get off the stage.
It’s too bad SA couldn’t play a longer set. They totally have the repertoire to play a two hour or longer set, but because of the late start there was no way that was going to happen. Still, they did play a good set, and I enjoyed getting the chance to try and take some band-in-action photography and video with my P&S camera. I think I did a decent job!
Big news as well, Edmonton… Nightwish is coming to town to play the Starlite room! I’ve already bought my tickets (you can get them in a presale from a link off their webpage). So once I see them, then all I’ve got to see is Kamelot and Rhapsody and I’ll have seen my top 5 favourite metal bands! How exciting!
Heraldk
Sunshine Mountain Village
Feb 18th
This is a great view of the sunshine mountain village coming down from one of the runs. It sure was a beautiful day!
Untouched Powder at Sunshine
Feb 17th
Wow. Sunshine sure was beautiful while we were there. The sun was shining and in places you could see untouched snow for miles!
Skiing Sunshine
Feb 16th
Two weekends ago, we used Canmore as home base for a couple of days of skiing. We had some great weather, and Sunshine sure lived up to it’s name! The snow was gorgeous, and I got a bunch of quite good photos that I’ll be posting in the next little while!
Light!
Feb 14th
When I get new lenses I tend to run around my house looking for stuff to shot. This was taking with my new lens, but it was a shot I had never tried before and it turned out better than I expected.
I’m jumping around a bit in my backlog of photos. I’ve taken so many photos in the last couple weeks that I’ve wanted to get some of my favourites out earlier than they would’ve had I posted them in chronological order.
I’m also playing with Aperture 2 which came out earlier this week. My impressions: It is waaay better than Aperture 1.5. I’m really impressed with the performance improvements. Anyone else use Aperture?
Hello Down There!
Feb 13th
Some of our group of Maligne Canyon hikers went further up the canyon. I would like to do that in the future, but I was cold so I continued up to the cars, but was able to get a shot of the small group that did continue.
Winter
Feb 12th
This was really more fitting when I took the shot in the middle of a coldsnap in Edmonton. It’s warmed up considerably since. This is my balcony – I had a couple of plants growing there including a tomato plant. There’s still one tomato that I never harvested on there.
I don’t often take moody pictures like this, but I felt it worked really well, particularly in black and white. I took this while playing with my new EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 lens. It’s a wonderful lens!
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