Landscape
Cotton Candy Sunset over the Ottawa River
Fresh out of the camera from this evening, It's Friday night ... COVID-19 restrictions are suffocating for many, but within all of the struggles, a wonderful show from Mother Nature was on display tonight. It was a wonderful late summerlike evening, who knew we would be so lucky as to get such a nice heatwave in November. I think it peaked at 18 or 19 degrees Celsius ... wonderful! Stay safe everyone, and find things that make you happy and enjoy them when the opportunity arises!
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Lime Kiln Trail, after the Fire of 2012
Who would have thought it was possible for a bog to have caught on fire ...? The base of the bog is on a lime stone base, so the bog base is not very deep, yet a fire ripped through this area of the greenbelt south of Ottawa in 2012. This is a very large panoramic image, capable of being printed at native 300ppi resolution of over 8' wide and 4' tall.
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Jack Pine Trail Fall Colors
Taken shortly after sunrise on the Jack Pine trail. Even with COVID-19 in the red zone, lots of families trying to find ways to keep busy and healthy out walking along on the trails through the Greenbelt in Ottawa. This is a wonderful spot, with a lot of Chickadees that are eager to eat bird seed from peoples hands.
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Fall Morning Sun Burst In The Forest
I love that sunrise is getting later and later in the mornings now that fall is here. I don't have to get up at some ungodly hour to get out and enjoy a beautiful sunrise. This very large panoramic I captured in a planted forest very near to my home. I've driven by it so many times, I'm glad I finally went to check it out this morning. Caught the sun getting diffused just nicely between the trees, alowing me to capture the sun in it's full intensity with a nice sunburst.
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Dunlop Picnic area low flow falls
fall colors are peaking, not much water flowing, haven't had a lot of rain the past few days, but that has helped to ensure the leaves stay on the trees, so all good!
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Dunlop Picnic Area Falls - Slippery? Check!
It was such a wonderfully warm day today. Thunderstorm warnings all day, but we were lucky and it stayed north of Ottawa and Parc de la Gatineau. The sun had set and I was on my way back down when I deciced I would stop in and check out the falls. Ok, not much water flowing these days, The colors are amazing, I think I will go back here again for sunrise tomorrow. I slipped on the damp rocks trying to get this shot, still managed to get the shot, but gonna have a nice bruise on my arm from this one ... lol.
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Ottawa Greenbelt Walkway During a Fall Sunrise
Early morning walk through the trails on a warm fall morning. The sun was at my back as I set up to capture this scene. Every now and then a leaf would fall from the branches and land in the pathware in front of me. It was a very peaceful morning, with Bluejays singing in the forest.
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Peaceful Fall Sunrise in Mer Bleue Bog Boardwalk Trail
Early fall, colors are just starting to transition. COVID rules are in place, one way traffic flow through the trails to limit exposure for all visitors to the conservation area.
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Reflections
A new twist on an old image from a previous series. I decided to take another look at editing one of my winter images from 2017. I converted it to black and white, and then added a lot of contract to the lower half of the image to bring out the reflections on the ice crust on top of the snow on the ground. It had rained recently and then frozen hard afterwards.
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Dare to be Different
Daring to be different ICM - Intentional Camera Movement ... This capture is a blend of two different images taken at the same location and time. One of the shots was moved vertically to create the blurred movement within the scene, while the other shot was taken normally, fully in focus and sharp and crisp. When back at home, I took both photos into Photoshop and using some layer masks, slowly blended the two images together mamking a composite image blending the two scenes together to make one unique image.
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Desolate Road to the Hills
While out in California attending a photography workshop being run by Joseph Rossbach, I was wandering around looking for looking for interesting scenes, I became interested and focused on this desolate road. While the workshop group was there photographing only one car drove by in the two hours that we were there.
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The last bit of Daylight fades away
The clouds were working hard and quick to snuff out the last bit of bright light in the sky. Blue hour quickly transformed into night over tghe Ottawa river.
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Foggy Fall Boardwalk - Mer Bleue
Another outstanding morning in the dead of fall at Mer Bleue Conservation Area. There wasn't a whisper of a wind on this morning, so the fog was sitting still down in the valley over the bog. Because of the composition of the bog, it's almost always foggy in the morning in the fall. Great for me to be able to capture! It's also an interesting scene due to the strong orange-red colour in the foliage on the bog. It won't be long now before the snow starts flying.
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Busy Beavers on a Foggy Fall Morning
There is nothing quite like a beautiful crisp fall morning at Mer Bleue with a low hanging layer of fog over the bog. This scene is made that much more special because of the three beavers that were busy building their den for the winter.
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Stormy Foggy Morning at Mer Bleue
Another extra-large panoramic stitch. This image is now just under 2gb in size. I had to reduce it's size to get it to display in Lightroom. This scene is meant to be printed at 80" wide by 44" tall.
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Fall Rhapsody - Mer Bleue Conservation
Taken at sunrise on a foggy fall morning, this section fo the Mer Bleeu trail, is a wonderful spot to stop and let the little chickadee's sit and eat feed from the palm of your hand. This scene has been composed from 180 individual photos to create a supersized "4K' type quality print. At 4k like resolution, this will print at 100" wide and 38.5" tall.
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Strike on the hill
While visiting with my family in Kamloops, a storm came up ovr the hill behind us, so I jumped in my car and headed out to see if I could get lucky and catch a lightning strike ... Yay! Got one!!
Little Islands along Ottawa River
Taken just before blue hour over the Ottawa River, looking down off of the bridge. This is a multi column panoramic image. It had been quite stormy late in the afternoon, which made for some nice clouds. Unfortunately the clouds were a bit too thick on the horizon, so there didn't end up being much color in the sky at sunset.
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Gatineau Park Stormy SquarePano
Today was the first time I had a chance to get out and really put the new Kase Wolverine filter system to the test. I hiked down into a small lake in Gatineau park. The winds were blowing steady making it impossible to do any bracketed shots. I got out the Kase system and using the magnetic circular polarizer with a 6 stop medium graduated filter I was able to balance the scene really well, no need for bracketed shots to be able to recover all of the detail! Yeah! This is a three row, multi-column panoramic image with over 10,600 pixels on the short side. With this much resolution, it will print nice and big easily! (at 300 dpi that works out to a 36" tall print without any resizing!)
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Flooded Fairways in Gatineau
Spring is finally here, with April Showers being very prominent this spring. I was up bright and early this Easter Sunday to go shooting, since the forecast was for a foggy start to the day. This was the last location I decided to check out, a golf course near the Ottawa River on the Quebec side of the river. When I first arrived there was a bit more fog in the air, but it was quickly dissipating. I could feel the warmth of the sun making it's way through the low clouds and fog.
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Solitude at Aylmer Marina on a Spring night?
Spring, where is spring? It seems to have disappeared this year. Winter has it's grip on Ottawa this year, tonight it will get to below -16 with the winds ... crazy. I drove out to Aylmer Marina today hoping to find some cracks in the ice on the river, to see signs of the river and spring. No where to be seen today. Ah well, it will come one of these days. :)
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After a little bit of wet feet ... a New Birch Stand Emerged
With the spring thaw starting to get closer with each passing day, I am spending my weekends out driving around looking for new and interesting scenes to capture. I found a nice birch cluster to photograph today, but while making my way out to the trees I kept going through the top layer of frozen snow to the water underneath. My feet got soaked, but it was an enjoyable day just the same.
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Mer Bleue Pre-Dawn Blue Hour Panoramic
I really love how the last hints of blue hour provided a lovely soft pastel blue backdrop to the fresh snow cover on the ground. This is a two row, multi column panoramic image that has been blended into a very high resolution image capable of being printed up to 8' wide while remaining extremely sharp and clear.
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Happiness is ... Hiking into the Backcountry for Blue Hour
After capturing a few different versions of the sky during blue hour, it was time to hike back out. It was long after dark with no moon, so I needed to put on my headlamp. While I was hiking back out, I couldn't help but notice how the fresh snow was sparkling as my headlamp lit it up... Wonderful and Serene ...
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Blue Hour Pre-Sunrise at Mer Bleue
Eager to get out shooting, I ventured out to Mer Bleue in hopes of some morning colours during sunrise. Unfortunatel, the cloud cover was just too thick, and the colours never came out. This shot was taken during the last phase of pre-dan blue hour.
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Heavy Winds - Snow Squal - Sunset | Triple Hit
I was battling all of the odds trying to capture this shot. My tripod leg broke off again after trying to fix it temporarily while I wait for a replacement part. But, determined as usual, I trekked on through the deep wind blown snowdrifts determined to get a couple of shots on this Sunday afternoon. The winds were strong and I was hoping for some shots of the snow blowing across the Ottawa river as the sun set with good sunset colours. I got lucky, with the sun just as it was hitting the horizon, the snowdrift in front of me lit up beautifully.
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Incoming Snow Squall - Get Ready ...
Snowshoeing out at Petrie Island just before the snow squal hit. I was loving how the sunshine just before sunset during the golden hour was lighting up the fast moving clouds.
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Cattle Corral at Blue Hour in -30 ... Brrrr
I decided to go and check out one of my favourite little spots, a small cattle corral south of Ottawa where I live. The winds were blowing pretty strongly creating a wind chill of -30. The snow storm was just coming to an end and with the winds over the past 36 hours combined with light fluffy fresh snow I found what I was looking for, some nice lines in the fresh snow. This is a two row, nine column panoramic image. After stitching the resulting sixty images together, this is now a whopping 165MP image.
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Early Morning Golden Goodness at Mer Bleue I
This scene is a very high resolution multi-column and multi-row panoramic image made up from a total of 90 images. The high clouds were moving quickly. Within about 5 minutes, the sun was hidden behind the clouds enough that the effect on the cattails was gone. In the end I'm very happy I managed to capture a couple of great shots in one morning. Lately I have been going out and not even taking the camera out of the bag. This morning was a treat!
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Early Morning Golden Goodness at Mer Bleue II
It's so nice to be able to sleep in (relatively speaking), and still have more than enough time to get out to capture blue hour before sunrise, and we fully prepared for the golden hour when it arrives. The ice was nice and thick this morning when I went for a hike out in Mer Bleue. I set the tripod down a little bit lower to be able to soften the bright morning sun, with the bullrushes.
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Getting Close to the Edge - Ottawa River, Ottawa, ON
I'm always looking for new and interesting locations around Ottawa to capture. This was taken just before sunset on a cool December evening looking away from the sunset to capture the alpen glow in the sky. I really liked how the ice was very thin around the bolder in the river, and how the ice disappeared towards the island allowing for some nice reflections from the bare trees on the island in the middle of the river.
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South Ottawa Vertical Birch II
Tucked in close to the birch cluster south of the Ottawa Airport, these Birch trees are captured at sunrise.
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South Ottawa Vertical Birch III
Tucked in close to the birch cluster south of the Ottawa Airport, these Birch trees are captured at sunrise.
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South Ottawa Vertical Birch I
Tucked in close to the birch cluster south of the Ottawa Airport, these Birch trees are captured at sunrise.
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