January Image of the Month

An all new series of photos for you. Two film and one digital for those who are interested in such things. 

2nd Runner Up

The street in front our house can be pretty, sometimes. 

1st Runner Up

During the ramble with Sean down to Waterton. This is one of the compositions I found while waiting for the pink sunrise that happened for about 2 seconds.

Image of the Month

I was down in Fish Creek for an evening stroll in the ice fog. Coming up the hill to the Shannon Terrace parking lot, I saw this scene, and scrambled to get set up before someone walked into the scene to get to the white car. Composition, focus, advance shutter, figure out exposure and reciprocity, settings, double check, and click. Not much editing.

Another S and K ramble

Sean bought a new lens and wanted to test it out on scenes he was familiar with from a previous trip, here. We thought the sky might have some drama, and that's always good with a wide lens. I'm always happy to come along, and brought the film camera to see if I could finish off a roll. Hint, I did.

In order we visited Johnson Lake, Two Jack Lake, Lake Minnewanka, Bow Falls, and Vermillion Lakes. With lunch in the middle of that. You can see Sean's photos here.

I'd never been to Johnson Lake. There was a nice mountain view, which will not be news to anyone. The gem we found is the little brook leading from the lake. We worked the scene for quite a while. The hard part was choosing between the many subtly different photos of parts of the brook. 

I was thinking of the contrast from the last ramble, where we both posted wide open sunny landscapes, and the contrast with this one, where we both think the tight close up photos of the brook are the best photos. 

As always it was an enjoyable trip. 

1. An amusing bit of driftwood in Johnson Lake.

2. Part of the view from Johnson Lake.

3. Various views of the little brook leading from Johnson Lake.

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9. The view from Two Jack Lake. There an infinite number of photos of this view, but I took it mainly to see how Lightroom coped with an HDR panorama image. I think it did quite well, and quickly.

10. The bridge just off Lake Minnewanka.

11. The view from the parkade in Banff after lunch.

12. Two views from Vermillion Lakes. We didn't waste any time. A nasty wind had come up, along with a tiny bit of rain.

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Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (NB)

Film From the last ramble.

Linda

Newfoundland

New Brunswick

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

Curtis, the ultimate lounge cat.

90 days, or so ago

Flower

Landscape

Dino related

Almost like a work day

Yup. A Teams meeting to review updates to our community website. It's looking really good so far. Then some followup discussion. Then a flurry of emails. Four hours worth in all. At least there were no power point presentations. It really was much like a work day.

If you missed it, I figured out the problem with the image search feature. Turns out Spotlight can get confused and lose it's mind. The solution is to rebuild the index. Now it's fine.

For a while I thought the Backblaze update was part of the problem, but no. It's been churning away since Nov 21, giving the big RAID drive a workout. Out of 1.1 million files taking up 7.5 TB of data, there is only 180,000 files over 318 GB to go. It seems to be going quicker now, but maybe that's my imagination. You are backing up your important data, right? RIGHT??

In what I hope is an unrelated topic to Spotlight, for two days in a row I have failed to get any of the Connections, a word game from New York times. If you haven't tried it, it's kind of fun, but a bit frustrating at times, here. And it's not like it was before coffee or anything. 

There's a Blurb sale so I've started trying to winnow the New Brunswick photos down to a book size. No idea if I'll make the deadline, but if not there will be another sale sooner or later. I'd rather take my time and get the right photos and text for the book, than rush and regret it.

Another photo from the S and K ramble.

Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (NB)

Film

During a walk in Fish Creek these trees really stood out, and I wanted to see if I could capture that.

Linda contemplating new territory to conquer.

Newfoundland

New Brunswick

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

90 days, or so ago. And minus a few leaves, it's looking much the same today.

Flower, a 2016 dahlia.

Landscape

Dino related

Near and far

You get a mix of things today. Actually, at this very moment I'm only part way into the first cup of coffee, so I'm still waking up. 

Let's start with the park across the road. It's a big wide open space. I've done lots of sunrise and sunset photos from there, to say nothing of dramatic cloudscapes.

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3. Part of a skate park and the tennis / pickleball courts.

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6. The view of our house from the park late October.

And for far, here's another of the mountain landscape from the S and K ramble last week.

And in the stream of consciousness that this blog sometimes is, I've run into a problem. Some of the saved searches I use to find images isn't showing me things that it should. I see all the files in a list, but when I search for files in that list, it doesn't show them to me. Grrr. Restart doesn't change behaviour. I get different results using the same search criteria from one time to the next. And now I'm thoroughly distracted and have completely lost whatever plot I had in writing this blog. I fear whatever plans I might have had for the day just went out the window. I won't be able to think about anything else till I figure this out. 

In a later followup, it works now. I needed to rebuild a search index. Life goes on.

Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (NB)

Film

Linda

Newfoundland

New Brunswick

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

90 days, or so ago

Flower

Landscape

Dino related