The end of term is here and oh my my it is really busy. I can’t believe it is almost over already. Worked late at school tonight. Just got in and am now winding down.
On my way home I noticed the CN Tower all lit up in red and white through the dark misty rainy night. Balanced the camera in the rain on a newspaper box at the corner of Bathurst and Spadina.
Well, I have not been very good about adding images here. I have a few lined up. I started two weeks ago, to use my little point and shoot in full manual mode. I love the results. Much better than the program mode. I now don’t have to do any post processing to my images at all. I know that if i’m in a hurry, I’ll have to switch to program mode, but for all the rest, manual is the way to go. I’m going to leave it on auto focus though, as the lcd screen, while sharp is not quite sharp enough to manually focus the lens. (Cool that the thing will allow manual focus innit?).
The first image, while futzing around and not quite getting the controls right was taken when C. and I went to Fran’s near the Eaton Centre. It is similar to the images of J. and N. But this time I think that the image is much richer … I used manual settings.
The next couple of images were taken after a quick visit to the Eaton Centre. Some workers were installing a very very big billboard on the side of the new building at Yonge and Dundas. I fiddled around with the manual settings to get the best exposure. Those tiny figures are actually full sized construction workers. Yikes.
Then I zoomed out and took a photograph of the billboard in context:
A week later I was playing around photographing my boy-cat Laszlo. Here he is looking malevolently relaxed:
Later that night a friend needed to talk with me. On my way over to her place, I stopped in the park and took this photograph of a tree by the light of a nearby lamp post. In the background is a brightly lit (relatively brightly lit I mean) softball diamond.
A little ways after that I used a slightly tilted park bench as a tripod and photographed the toronto skyline (all askew) with the park in the foreground. This image, the one before it, and the one after it were shot using the camera on program mode.
This last image for this post was shot at about 2:30 in the morning on my way home. I had drunk a couple of big glasses of wine and did not lean against anything for what was a 4 second exposure of a lit pathway through some trees.
I’ve been very busy this last couple of weeks. I have a few images ready to be posted, but I also hurt my elbow (in a completely unglamorous way) so have been backing off of the typing thing for a while.
I’ll post new images tomorrow.
peace out
it was large and hanging from the ceiling of the ROM. Beautifully made and well crafted. Lovely.
I met a friend there for lunch. Or, I met a friend who works for the ROM for lunch and after lunch she took me in to see the exhibit on contemporary Native Art. The work was amazing.
We had a good chat over lunch. It was really nice to catch up with a friend I’ve not seen in a long time. I should do that more often but I am shy by nature and always hesitate before getting in touch with someone (anyone) I haven’t seen in a while. We ate at a Vietnamese restaurant. Here’s proof:
