TULIPS!

For Mother's Day my mom, my aunt and I hit the Arboretum and the Rock Garden at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.  The only thing I love more than tulips is photographing tulips, as evidenced in the hundreds of images I took.

Here's my favourite from the day:



Here's my series of single stems:













And here are a few flowerbeds:









Check out the full 'Tulips' set on Flickr.

Happy Spring!

TORONTO, OR, THE CONDOM MACHINE SHOOT

So our friend Greg in Toronto likes to DO THINGS.  Like beach volleyball, or sailing, or hockey, or ride his motorcycle.  Also, taking random pictures.  He also has that picture itch...

(You know, that one thing that you see all the time and every time you see it you think to yourself, "One day I will have my camera and tripod and just the right light and I will shoot this elusive object.  One day."  And yet you still see said object on a semi-regular basis and never have your camera.  And when you are planning to spend an afternoon shooting, you still don't think to yourself, "I should go shoot that thing already," you head for a waterfall, or a factory, or your livingroom instead.  I have lots of these, and yet I never shoot them.)

Anyways, Greg's picture itch is for a sticker-ed and graffiti-ed condom machine and matching hand dryer in a basement of a bar in Toronto.  He wants to blow these up and hang them as art in a funky modern bathroom.  I love the idea!  Unfortunately, it is the men's room, so only Jeff and Greg can participate, while I hang out outside looking lost and perhaps a little strange.  (Who hangs out outside the men's room in a bar in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday?)

Long story short, the shots of the condom machine and hand dryer in question came out pretty neat.  Here's the processing that Jeff and I like the most:

FACTORY SHOOT (TAKE 2)

A sample of Jeff's HDR images from our Factory Shoot:

FACTORY SHOOT

I work for a furniture manufacturer, and the building we work in is over 100 years old.  It's full of personality, brick walls, wood floors, cool stuff and dust, and we had the opportunity to shoot it in some gorgeous afternoon light after work had finished up for the day.  Check out our full set on Flickr.

SPRING FEVER

In the beautiful weather we had this past weekend, we grabbed our cameras and hit the Centreville Pond with Emma to shoot some of the remnants of winter.  Check out our Spring Fever set on Flickr!

DEPTH OF FIELD - FORKS AND SPOONS EDITION

Part of our second assigment was to use maximum and minimum depth of field on the same subject.  Manipulating DoF is one of my FAVOURITE things to do - I was in bokeh heaven!

Here are the two shots of forks and spoons, laid out on a mirror.





Love it!

RATTLESNAKE POINT

Autumn is fast departing, so we took off for Rattlesnake Point yesterday to shoot some fall foliage before it is all gone!

Sneak previews...

Stay tuned for more!