A colleague showed me this video a few days ago and it cracked me up. Craig Ferguson is a funny guy.
Funny Craig Ferguson Video
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Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo
Originally uploaded by robtain
This photo was taken by my grandfather sometime in the 1950s. I have a crate full of old slides and am trying to get it together to digitize them all.
Back online!
Just finished getting the site back online after my hosting provider
suffered a service outage and catastrophic data loss. While the
experience was nerve-wracking and a pain in the behind, it is probably
the kickstart that I needed to tend to this little garden again.
Spring is in the air, so some photo walks are on the horizon, as well
as bike excursions.
Watch this space for some resources related to geocaching in the
coming week… This as part of my prep for a workshop I am doing in
mid-May.
Wine Glass
Wine Glass
Originally uploaded by robtain
I might have composed this better, but the was a combination of timing and circumstance. I saw the glasses on the table. It was late afternoon and the sunlight was pouring through the patio door onto the table. I wanted to see if I could capture the particular quality of light that was visible at this time of day.
Flower Girl
Flower Girl
Originally uploaded by robtain
So far I am loving my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens. The shallow depth of field that I can attain really makes photos like this portrait of my daughter really stand out.
I now have three lenses in my kit, but since I bought the 50mm, I have only taken it off the camera once. The other advantage is that it means that I can better shots in lower light and not have to resort to a flash.
Blog changes
I finally got around to working out a few bugs in the WordPress theme that I’ve been using (K2). I’ve been watching the K2 release candidates regularly for updates so that I could fix this once and for all. My sidebars were disappearing randomly, rendering my sidebar content relatively useless. Hopefully this will work better.
It may break again the next time I upgrade WordPress.
I’ve added a couple of new photgraphy sites to the blogroll, so please check out those links. The time has come to _blank_ or get off the pot as far as blogging is concerned, so I will try to find some genuinely interesting info to post here in the coming days, weeks and months. Thanks for reading!
Jungle Gym
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Originally uploaded by robtain
Another photo taken with the 70-300 mm zoom. After hearing people talk about it, I am really starting to appreciate “bokeh“. This photo was taken at the Ecomuseum in Sainte Anne de Bellevue, Quebec. The subject is a red-tailed hawk.
Looking ahead
Looking ahead
Originally uploaded by robtain
This is a picture that I took of my daughter with a 70-300mm zoom lens. It is one of a series that I took in continuous shoot mode and I think this one turned out the best.
I used Photoshop to remove some strawberry stains from around her mouth!
Yellow Cabs
Yellow Cabs
Originally uploaded by robtain
We travelled to New York with some friends and kids in tow. I had never been to NYC before. It was sensory overload, but great fodder for photography. In about 48 hours, I fired off almost 400 shots.
I’ll be posting more to Flickr over the next few days.