last night

We had some northern lights last night so Ryan and Kaylin politely indulged me as I played with my gear on the side of the highway. We had fun, even if the photos kinda suck lol

day 120...12-31-09

blue moon

To my understanding the phrase "once in a blue moon" (meaning rare) came before the term blue moon referring to 2 full moons in one calendar month as we've had here in December.  Tonight was also a Lunar eclipse although we did not see that here.  I shot this with my 500mm zoom lens.    Happy New Year!


for comparison check out these previous moon shots
december 3 full moon
october moon

day 108...12-19-09

etched

day107...12-18-09

fire tree

day 105...12-16-09

frosty greetings

day 92...12-03-09

full moon rising

hand held @ dusk with a 200mm, looks ok unless you look close lol

day 76...11-17-09

glowing green orbs

click to see on a white background

day 72...11-13-09

Semi lights @ Borden Bridge

day 59...10-31-09

too cute to spook

day 58...10-30-09

swoosh

day 48...10-20-09

indoor sunset

this was shot in my dining room at 11pm... the "cloudy sky" in the background is a reflection of the textured ceiling (the wall is a mirror) and the "setting sun" is the dining room light fixture.  The twigs are just part of the decor, from ikea.

day 44...10-16-09

hoop dreams

well it's phone photo phriday and here is one of the shots I took with my lovely little iphone.  Edited with best photo software.

day 38...10-10-09

moon

This was not shot on saturday oct 10th, as I did not touch my camera today.  Okay that's not true I did snap a few iphone shots of the chaos I must bring to order in my room and the basement family room, but that would just be embarassing.  So instead I'll please your eyes with this shot of the moon from thursday.  If it hadn't been so cold, or so dark on a back road in the middle of nowhere, or if I hadn't been so lazy I would have brought out my 500mm, but it was all those things so 200mm was my limit.  Dont look closer though...

day 34...10-06-09

city of bridges

I'm a photographer in the city of bridges, yet this is the first time I've bothered to shoot one of them.  I shot several but I liked the car streak at the bottom of this one.

day 33...10-05-09

once in a blue moon

day 16...09-18-09

I'm trying to make nice with my tripod.

It's not that I don't appreciate you my three legged friend, it's just taken me a really long time to realize and accept that the burden of hauling you around is worth the results when my shaky hands cant do the job and my exposures are long. You are relatively light, easy to manipulate and I love your trigger head. We had fun together last night and I promise we will play more often.

day 13...09-15-09

I shot this on my way out of the library tonight after Camera Club. It's not a super strong photo by any means but I shot it with "my purse camera" and I posted it more because I saw an opportunity and I stopped to capture it, rather than letting it pass by and that is one part of the whole lesson to be learned by this project .




Shot this one just cause it made me laugh, another random opportunity. She was set up on the grassy meridian just outside the Tim Horton's on 8th St. reading a book and enjoying her timmies. Right after this I witnessed a nearly massive accident. I was in the passenger side and had my camera on and in my hand with the window rolled down, as a car turned left in front of us on College Dr. on to Preston and was almost t-boned by the car in the lane to the left of us. I watched in slow motion as the the car beside me missed the other car by mere feet. I was paralized and did not get the near miss shot, but the whole time I was wondering if I would be in the right place at the right time to shoot the impact and the aftermath if it happened... nope not this time, thankfully. It would have been nasty.