December 2008

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happy new year!

happy new year!

Happy New Year to all the readers of my blog! Thanks for dropping by to see my work and to read about my progress over the past year. I hope you will continue to visit throughout 2009 and maybe provide comments to help me improve my photography. On this last day of 2008, I will [...]

photo of the day

photo of the day

autumn in black and white Part of today was spent cleaning up my computer and memory cards and backing up my files in preparation for the new year. I came across this photo taken in October in Ottawa. It is one of those classic “room with a view” images snapped from my hotel room. Although [...]

oh the weather outside is frightful

oh the weather outside is frightful

BEFORE AFTER Vancouver had a record snowfall over the past week making it rather difficult to go anywhere. However the weather conditions presented an opportunity to stay indoors and catch up on the Camera RAW self-study I was supposed to do in late November/early December. The self-study group was arranged by one of my classmates [...]

merry christmas everyone

merry christmas everyone

photo(shop) of the day

photo(shop) of the day

BEFORE AFTER AFTER (several days of snow and some more PS CS4)   A couple of weeks ago I upgraded from Photoshop Elements to Photoshop CS4 and now I’m waiting for Scott Kelby’s lastest book to arrive before diving full force into learning PS CS4. In the meantime, I’ve been playing around with some of [...]

partridge in a pear tree

partridge in a pear tree

Okay technically that’s not a partridge and it isn’t in a pear tree but ’tis the season. With Christmas almost upon us, I went shopping the other day and found a couple of gifts…for myself: Volume 1 and 2 of Scott Kelby’s “The Digital Photography Book”. Both are easy reads and a treasure trove of [...]

lesson learned

lesson learned

At first I was going to title this posting “photo of the day” but then I thought readers might not see the humour in it for there is no photo here so instead I called it “lesson learned”. Like many of the best lessons in life, there is usually a missed opportunity, a sprinkling of [...]

inheritance

inheritance

Today would have been my Dad’s 75th birthday. To mark this day, I decided to post an image from my archives. Peonies are also known as the Chinese rose, and this photo was taken in my sister’s garden this past summer. It represents how much our father is still with us for peonies and taking [...]

lean sensei christmas cruise

lean sensei christmas cruise

If you were here yesterday, you would have seen the photos from the 2008 Lean Sensei Christmas Cruise but since it was such a long post, I decided instead to put a link to the photos on Facebook and include a few words here. The invitation to be the unofficial photographer for Lean Sensei left [...]

photo of the day

photo of the day

This evening I was the “official” photographer on one of Vancouver’s Carol Ships which hosted the annual Lean Sensei Christmas Party. My brother-in-law, David is the original Lean Sensei and this is the second cruise where he has asked me to take photos for his company. What a difference a few months makes as these [...]

photo of the day

photo of the day

I was sitting having my breakfast this morning and as usual, I was on the computer and listening to the news on the television. Something made me lift my head and turn towards the window where I saw this beautiful sunrise. I grabbed my G9 and fired off several shots before the light changed and [...]

photo(shop) of the day

photo(shop) of the day

BEFORE AFTER This is my Action Learning Group which we affectionately call “The Joy of Sox”. Over the past year we met in Ottawa on a regular basis to help each other find solutions to some of the challenges at work. This photo was taken at our end-of-year lunch yesterday. Although I did not take [...]