Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Shoot'n much?

No... been busy see? But this was out my office window. Nursery munchers.


Tomorrow setup & then Thurs-Sun. sell-sell-sell at the Home and Garden show. My twenty-second spring show, my how time flies. Of course I'd rather be skiing. Boys home from UofA & even a "free" place to stay in Fernie I had to turn down... oh the humanity! Got today in with Eric; it was puking snow this aft, conditions are outstanding. Sigh...

I have big plans for March though... more plans than month unfortunately. Must get back behind the camera, April things get BUSY.

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Three for three

Third weekend in a row with a snowshoe outing...

Last weekend up to Stagleap Provincial Park with Bart.

This weekend Chester Lake with Shannon (shown here: her new friend)

I'm on a roll!

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Friday, February 4, 2011

sCATtered

New version of Lightroom, setup the export feature- check.
A random photo... I think I might start collecting photos of the random signs I see when out surveying.

Anyway, just grinding down the old todo list for stuff relating to writing/video project. I have way too many photos to wade thru.

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” - Pablo Picasso

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Foran Grade Snowshoe

Most of January has been work & getting the house in order (basement storage area overhaul, home office overhaul)... I've sucked in enough dust already!!
A snowshoe with the local Scouting types. Good day out albiet a touch wind/sunburned on the face.

Now head down for a short week before a 'long weekend' of hopefully more snowshoeing and shoot'n. I've missed getting out.
(A few shots on zenfolio, the 'people' shots are password protected in a seperate album however)

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Friday, December 31, 2010

Fast away the old year passes

New Years Eve... another year almost in the bag. Fa-la-la-la-la

Johnston Canyon from our stay in Canmore for skiing etc over the Christmas break.

2010 was a great year. Shannon & I are 'reconnecting' as they say (read: she hasn't killed me yet ;>) )Boys are doing well at University & both enjoyed their summers of landscaping, Work wasn't the best but there's always next year for that, paid the bills & then some when others were out of work so its not as bad as it seems sometimes. Landed a few new friends as hiking / backpacking partners & while there is never enough time for everything I'd say I did well in the 'outdoor' department getting quite a few memorable trips in & documenting them on Zenfolio. I've got my winter work more or less mapped out plus what will undoubtedly be an overly optomistic list of 'extras'. Shall I start with the basement or the garage?? Or maybe snowshoing?

As for this blog... stay tuned for a 'best of 2010' perhaps or a new photo challenge. Maybe I'll go back & rework some photos from trips past. I know somewhere I have some RAW images from a 2005 (or was it '06?) backpacking trip that have never been processed.

2011 looks to be fine year !!! Happy New Year all!

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Moab roadie

A little recap on the Moab trip from October. I wasn't going to take a fall trip but Moe was available for part of it, work was more or less accommodating as was Shannon so I figured what the heck. These trips are so worth it even though I sometimes come back a bit bagged from trying to cram too much in. I love Utah hiking!

I enjoy photography. I don't excel at it, I still consider myself to be a bit of a hack but thanks to Lightroom I can usually scratch together my shots into a gallery I am happy with. It took a long time to process all the photos... first of all there are a ton of them & often it is hard to choose which ones to work on. Then a computer dies, & always work sapping my strength. Anyway this shot of Druid Arch I thought worked well as a high contrast B&W.

This shot was on the Peekaboo trail, it was one of the best days for weather, sunny & warm, & this was my 'second breakfast'. The wonderful silence of the Needles area... it just reminds me of great day out hiking.

While I planned fairly effectively for this trip (weather...) there were many moments of discovery or timing that stood out. One was here at what I call Wooden Shoe wash. The cottonwoods were just brilliant in the late afternoon sun ... a happy accidental find.

Here's Moe in The Joint. It was good of him to look up at the right moment, I really like this shot. Moe is a good hiking partner, always on the lookout & is always right there with a sarcastic comment (even if many of them aren't very funny, here's to trying)

Fisher Towers. I just love this shot, the blue sky against the red stone... it kind of symbolizes what I wanted out of this trip: grand sights, good weather, some solitude & some good company.

Here's a shot from the Goblin Valley. Even though my plans for a full moon walk here were foiled it was still one of my favorite places. As it fringes onto the edge of a future trip so I may be back.

Here's the link to the all the Moab Galleries. Oh yeah, I'll be back!

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Mt Fullerton scrambl'n

Today the world is white, our first big dump of snow for the year. But yesterday it was a different story...

Fantastic day on the rocks. More on Zenfolio

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Creston Colors

High River is in ‘brown season’ now so it was very refreshing to soak in the fall colors of Creston last weekend. This orchard is for sale… hmmm…

Finally reached the end of what has been a particularly taxing season. “The end” in that for the next while no boss & no ‘babysitting’ but still a ton of work to do. Nice long deadlines though & I don’t have to spend every day in the office so it’s all good. Also need to tuck into some photo processing among other things. But first, in celebration of the change of season I’m taking Monday off & going hiking. See you out there!

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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween!

Busy busy busy! Wrapping up a busy season but I did get away for a short but eventful fall roadie to Utah, based around Moab. Lots of hiking slick-rock, arches, slots canyons, & some rock art. The photos are finally out of the camera & will start to get editted shortly.

The above is on the "Newspaper Rock" panel on the way to the Needles section of Canyonlands National Park. Figured maybe someone might have crafted him on some Halloween long past...

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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Fallout


Stomach bug this weekend... bad timing as it grounded Saturday's outing to Waterton. It was a beautiful fall day too... the leaves they fall, oh the humanity! But on the bright side I got somewhat caught up with my photo processing.

Birdwood Traverse (above)


Invincible Lake Ridge.

Unless I get very lucky that's it for larchy goodness for another year... it is sadly such a small window.

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Friday, October 1, 2010

Fall Rush


A couple frames from a project that took us three years to complete design to finish. Customer has requested an as-built planting plan so I shot a bunch of photos to reference... winter project.


Way behind on processing photos, fourteen designs in progress, but hard to be inside now that we are finally getting Indian summer. More hiking on the weekend in the fall glory & planning for some upcoming desert hiking. Throttle is stuck open but in a good way.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Photo challenge - Murals

From the September long weekend

High River murals. A description and all the photos can be found here.

Upcoming photo challenges: Hank, I saw your suggestion for a silhouette… I’ll keep that in mind (great idea!!!) I also have a few other ideas for upcoming photo challenges. One involves mushrooms… hey, its been a wet year, if you can’ t fight ‘em join ‘em! Might do some of that if hiking falls thru this weekend. Also maybe something with a fall theme, I saw some cool leaf photos the other day that inspired me – not sure if I can follow that format or not (maybe) … my flash abilities are quite limited. More suggestions appreciated!

Anyway, work is still busy and certain aspects of it are draining more of my creative abilities but for a good cause (web SEO related) so on a bit of a learning curve with that stuff. Oh and the empty nest thing is going ok, thanks for asking. I haven’t had to kick a pair of shoes for two weeks!


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