Steve's Pics

The View

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

A couple of “view” shots from the top of the trail.

Wood!

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Swirlies in wood…close-up, and boost the colour…I love it! What do you think? I would like to see this in a large poster on my wall!

Cut Tree

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Concentric, rotting circles full of colour!

Chipmunks

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Turns out there are a lot of chipmunks in Manning Park, and they are quite photogenic, and very willing to have their picture taken.

A couple of Pano’s

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Drove up a 7km hill to this lookout point near Lightning Lake…Fantastic view!

Then we drove a bit further, and then hiked up a bit, and got this view!

Not sure the pictures do the view justice. Second pano has the sky blown out…probably needed a tripod, and several exposures to combine into an HDR to do it right…Click on the images to see a slightly larger version…the original images are HUGE! (5 x 12 Megapixels!)

This wood is petrified!

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Found some rotting wood…took a picture…that is about it! This image is basically untouched, I only cropped a bit off the top to frame it a bit better. This shot looks great in full res, the detail is amazing.

The Moon!

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0000

OK…we could see the almost full moon from our campsite, through the trees, it looked fantastic! Taking a picture of it was quite difficult. This was the best I could do. I think I need to blame it on my camera…if I adjusted the aperture for the moon, so it wasn’t totally blown out, the surrounding trees/sky were too dark. I tried post processing to bring up the sky, and thus the tree silhouettes, but this was as good as it got. I think to capture this properly, I would need a tripod, and take several pictures with different exposures…then create a HDR (High Dynamic Range) combined image. Maybe next time.

The Boat

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0000

A sunset, water, reflections and a hand made boat…it’s peaceful at Lightning Lake!

Sunset over Lightning Lake

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:45:00 +0000

Thanks to my niece for pointing this shot out to me! Nice colours in the sky…great for a silhouette!

Manning Park, Lightning Lakes

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:45:00 +0000

Another shot of lightning lake in Manning park…Beautiful lake for canoeing/kayaking etc. No motors allowed!

Lake Reflection

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:44:00 +0000

Trip to Manning park, Lightning Lakes… More pics to come!

Where is Lightning Lakes?

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White Flower Again…

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:36:00 +0000

This is a picture I took a while back…and I am revisiting…tweaked it a bit more to give it a bit more colour and “punch”… I like the simplicity…

New Bird

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:06:33 +0000

This bird is only ~1 week old…it has already grown a lot, but nowhere near ready to leave the nest…I think it is just plain tuckered out from growing!

Odometer

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:53:11 +0000

I managed to catch my odometer just before and just after rolling over from 99999 to 100000…better yet, I managed to catch a shot in between as well!

You can even see the blur from the numbers dropping down!!

Cleats

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Found this picture I took a couple of years ago, and never did anything with it…Cleaned it up a bit, and thought I would post it…Notice the larger size image now? I will start posting bigger images so you can see more of the detail.

Robin laid an Egg…

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:38:23 +0000

Well, 4 Eggs actually. This bird made a nest in my neighbours planter on her deck…snapped a quick pic of her keeping them warm. I am hoping I can get some pics of them after they have hatched…a shot of the Mom feeding one of the babies would be fantastic! (The original image is 4000×3000, and the detail is great! Anyone want this as a poster on their wall?)

Strange Lines!

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:53:49 +0000

Another experiment…took a screen capture of a PCB layout…selected specific layers/traces…and then fractalized it…OK…So this one has absolutely nothing to do with photography…it is just an image I reated. I suppose I could have taken a picture of the screen, but that would have been just plain silly!

Spinner!

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:20:32 +0000

I keep finding new images to try with the filter…Something about the effect that I really like.

Dandy Dandelions

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Just another macro of some Dandelions…tweaked a bit in post processing of course!

Don’t take A fence!

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:30:00 +0000

I was out for a walk, and saw this new fence being put up….I liked the geometry/angles etc, and snapped this shot.

I tried to get the “butt end” about 1/3 from the left and the bottom (“rule of thirds" you know). And then I went to town in Paint Shop.

First, you will notice the perspective wasn’t right on…I took the picture angled downwards a bit, so I did some perspective correction. Then I cloned out the white space between the boards, as I found it a bit distracting…I also cleaned out the other distracting stuff between boards. Then I clarified, adjusted contrast/saturation, and got this:

A little better…I always like wood grains in monotone….so let’s try sepia.

Hmmm…one more thing left to try. Lets go back to colour, and add my newly discovered filter

Which do you like best??