Yet another sunrise.

While I love the view and don't mind getting up to capture it, I'm starting to chafe at the mobility restrictions keeping me at home...

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Playing with the camera

This shot isn't as focused as I'd like, but it's been a while ;)

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Downtown Edmonton.

We live in a beautiful city.

There are hiking paths in the valley that my daughters hike every chance they get.  For much of the time, you can't tell you're in a city, never mind downtown.

Beautiful.

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Louise McKinney Park

I was able to take a whole bunch of photos in Louise McKinney Park in downtown Edmonton today, including some from the pedestrian bridge.

Considering how deep the valley is, it's amazing to see these areas covered in water.




You can see the complete set at my flickr account here.  There are all straight from the camera, completely unedited (not even resized) photos taken with my old Canon S3.  I chose that camera because it can also take video.  I took several videos at different areas and put them together, opting to make several short video compilations, rather than one really long video.

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Riverdale

Parts of Riverdale are seeing some flooding.  This is our view of Riverdale and the river from our balcony.

Fun with stitching

I use a program called Autostitch to generate landscape pictures from independent captures. I have to admit I'm in love with this thing, as it allows me to do things like this :)

Mixed feelings about this whole insomnia thing...

So this morning I got up at 4:40, yet again. Please don't get me wrong, I *love* the shots I get at this time of the morning, but I have to admit I'm getting a little grumpy about the whole lack of sleep thing...

Here we're starting to peak a bit

I fully realize I'm somewhat addicted to light, but sometimes I try and balance it out with a tree or something :P

Over here I was startled by a bird flying directly overhead, which ended up by the telephone pole by the time I was able to capture him.

Him and his buddies on the tree branches

Tornado warning

This is just not looking good...

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A hint of sunshine

This was part of the fifteen minutes of sunshine we got today. It's currently raining "à boire debout" ... :)

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Sometimes insomnia rocks

I'm starting to enjoy the fact that sleep abandons me at five or so. :D

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Photo walk

So my daughter conned convinced me to go on a photo walk with her yesterday. two and a half hours later, I was feeling pretty much dead. we did see a few nice things though :)  Anna thought I should post one a day, but this gives me an excuse to go out more often :P

Sometimes Insomnia pays off

I'm an early riser at the best of times, but sometimes I can't sleep past 5am. Today, I was rewarded for it :)

Weather incoming

I've got a piece of software that takes amazing panoramic pictures... unfortunately the best way to view them is in the software itself. The export isn't too bad though :)

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Oh, for crying out loud

It was supposed to rain today.

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Fun with filters

So I'm working from home this morning and I glance out the window; it's bright sunshine, the temp is about -20C and there is ice fog on the river. There *is* a sun there, I swear, but the camera refuses to capture it, instead giving me a large white area where the pixels were simply over saturated. Since I was barefoot while taking the shots, I decided to add a light blue hue to pass on how my feet felt during the shot :P
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Prairie driving

Every once in a while, we see a little gem...

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A spring day in Edmonton

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Rainbow Sundogs

Meant to post this one a while ago.  Taken on a cold, clear morning, Jan. 11.  Sadly, I was unable to capture the bright rainbow colours in the sun dogs.

A Moment

Heading out to the van, I had just moments to try and capture the sunrise before the spectacular colours where gone.  The photo does not do it justice.
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Incoming

Walking to the library with my daughter, we can see - and hear! - a fast moving storm.