More DPP

It seems that readers liked seeing yesterday's photos of Linda's winter decorations. There were several nice complimentary emails, thank you very much! 

In other news we held our community association AGM last night, and I was voted in as President again. It will be another busy year for me. But as one of my readers says, it will keep me out of mischief and off the streets at night. 

Back to the regularly scheduled programming, with more Dinosaur Provincial Park photos. Blogger left these in order, but it doesn't really matter. I was looking for interesting images, and even now it's hard for me to tell if they work as images or not. The landscapes are so unusual that I sometimes have trouble processing what I'm looking at, or what the scale is.

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3. Rocks emerging from the gradually eroding soil. 

4. Which sometimes leaves really odd shapes. This might last till the next rain storm, or it might last decades.

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11. Life here is tough, and clings in unexpected places. It's a good idea to look where your feet are going before going there.

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14. I really liked the pattern of drainage channels in the slopes. They're everywhere, similar and yet different.

15. Sometimes the lines lead to a subject.

16. Or not.

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Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (BC)

Flower and Film (new)

Yukon

Film (old)

Linda's prize winning arrangements

If you've been following along, you know Linda likes to use her flower pots/vases/boxes as the base for winter decorations. She's been hard at it again, though the hardest part has been finding the supplies she wants. I always take photos of them, and she sent in some to a group she belongs to for a contest entry, and she won!!! I don't know off hand which she sent in, but they're all winners to me.

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Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (BC)

Flower

A mid-September rose, still doing it's thing.

Yukon

Film (new)

A recent VERO submission.

Film (old)

More DPP, a special request

The trip to Dinosaur Provincial Park involved meeting up with a group of other people, of whom I knew only 1. (Hi LM!) It was fun, though, and several of them were intrigued by my carrying a film camera along. Often I put film specific stuff into the other blog, but decided not to this time for complicated reasons.

I put two rolls of Kodak Gold 200 through the GW690, which gave me 16 photos, of which I'm willing to show you 10. Several have been blogged or posted on VERO, but there was a special request to see the film photos all in one place. So here goes, hoping I'm not boring someone because they see a repeat. For a wonder Blogger even left them in the right order.

If you want to begin at the beginning, and see other images from DPP, go here. 

1. The landscapes are fascinating on both a large and small scale. The shapes sculpted by rain and wind are amazing. The subtle and not so subtle colour changes in what some would see as a bleak landscape are a delight to the photographer's eye.

2. Harsh late afternoon sun makes for dark shadows on grey soil.

3. Yet in the sun the actual rocks are a wonderful warm tawny orange. Warm temperature-wise as well, and yes we were warned about snakes.

4. Several big views of the landscape. As a camera note, if you're wondering how wide the landscape is, it's about a 40mm equivalent on a 35mm camera, thus a bit wider than a "normal" lens. I've done some panoramas on film but didn't really think of it here.

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6. The sun was gradually setting, making for interesting shadows and contrasts, bringing up the colour in the various rock layers.

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10. Strong shadows made this a tricky exposure.

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Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (BC)

Flower, and Film (new), AND a serendipity dragronfly. Yes, for the pixel peepers there are lots of dust spots in the lily photo. But the colour of those lilies is perfect! And the film gives it a texture that digital doesn't. This is Kodak Gold 200 as well. This is one where I might go back and rather than try to deal with the dust spots, start by scanning the negative again.

Yukon. The view from the Dempster Highway never gets old.

Film (old)

Glacier National Park, during a trip late 80's, I think.