Hello All,
Sometimes it's hard to distinguish the new shots from the old ones, so I am going to continue to post new and recently updated shots on my blog page.
Here is some of my most recent work:
This one I actually took last summer while I was out watching the Perseid Meteor Shower. I was going through old, lost and long forgotten photos on my external hard drives, when I joyously stumbled upon this picture. The reason I was so excited is because I don't even remember taking it.
Many times after a long photo shoot, I will quickly glance over all of the photos, pick one or two I like and sweep the rest under the carpet of my abandoned back-up devices. Here they will remain for months until one curious day when I browse through the treasures and old remains of times I can barely recall.
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This photo was taken at Nicholas Sheran Lake at around midnight on a brisk night in November. I liked how the still water gave a crystal clear reflection and how the surrounding ice, projecting a gentle glow from the street lights, contrasted it nicely.
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2009 marked the Centennial of the High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. The Bridge itself is an awe-inspiring structure, with it's vast height and a towering overtone. When the city allowed a local electric company to light up the bridge with giant flood lights, it added an electrifying presence that gave photographers and curious bystanders a new vantage point to see their familiar landmark in a new way.
This shot was taken on November 11, 2009. I was standing knee deep in the freezing river just to make sure I got the shot I wanted...
Never again! Although, I'm pretty sure I would do it again :)
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This shot was also taken while the bridge was lit up. It was done multiple times between September and January, giving a wide variety of people a chance to see it. This one was taken on Dec 11, 2009. The combination of entirely overcast skies, along with freezing sub-zero temperatures, made the bright white halogens look like green sheets of light across the sky. From a distance, they almost resembled the Northern Lights. The thick cloud cover mixed with the light pollution from the city streetlights, gave the rest of the sky a noticeably orange hue.
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Taken at sunrise on Jan 1, 2010 in Canmore, Alberta, this was not only the earliest I've ever been up on New Years Day, but also my quickest photographic start to a new year. The way the ice was weathered around the trees looked like someone had planted the tree in a giant curling rock. The rings were so smooth and symmetrical it was unreal.
Murphy's Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. This is exactly why I gave up on sunrises for quite a long time. A typical sunrise photo-shoot for me used to involve waking up before dawn on a 30 below day, spending an hour or two with my tripod frozen to hands, just to see a sunrise that may as well have been monochromatic.
I was ecstatic when I actually observed real color! At first I thought that maybe I needed glasses...
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This was taken just after sunrise on New Years Day. The sun was just above the frame on this shot, but it's fiery ambiance still made it presence known in the reflection of the quiet stream. I really liked this little piece of jagged iced protruding from the frozen ground. The exposure itself was 4 seconds long.
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This picture was taken at the same location as the last two, but a day earlier. Instead of early morning, it was about 3pm and the cloud cover gave this scenic landscape a mildly dry, yet pleasing atmosphere.
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This spillway is also located in Canmore. It is right below a power plant, very close to the location of the previous three photos. At first glance, it wasn't much to look at, but setting the Law of Conservation of Energy aside, I was determined to make something out of nothing. This is an 8 second exposure taken in broad daylight. I stacked up an ND8 filter combined with a circular polarizer to give the fast moving water a glassy, almost ice-like texture.
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[1] http://www.dapo.ca/wp-content/gallery/long-exposure/img_9811-3resize.jpg
[2] http://www.dapo.ca/wp-content/gallery/long-exposure/img_8545-1-2resize.jpg
[3] http://www.dapo.ca/wp-content/gallery/long-exposure/high-level-lights.jpg
[4] http://www.dapo.ca/wp-content/gallery/long-exposure/img_9034-2resize.jpg
[5] http://www.dapo.ca/wp-content/gallery/day-time-scenery/img_9241-1.jpg
[6] http://www.dapo.ca/wp-content/gallery/day-time-scenery/img_9256-1resize.jpg
[7] http://www.dapo.ca/wp-content/gallery/day-time-scenery/img_9160-3.jpg
[8] http://www.dapo.ca/wp-content/gallery/day-time-scenery/img_9174-1resize.jpg
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