After Christmas, we visited my wife’s uncle near Rawdon. We had a great dinner and then went outside to play in a large pile of snow that was piled up by the plow. The land is an old farm that sits next to where my wife’s grandfather had his farm. It is a large plot of land with the typical odd building sitting here and there. One of the structures is the sad looking building seen below. I loved this […]
The sky was pretty clear, and it looked to be a pretty good day to try some winter pictures at the Rawdon waterfalls. Picked up Nick and we headed up north. Half way there, we hit a snow squall, and I got a little worried. Not 15 minutes later, we pulled out of it and there were bright blue skies with fluffy white clouds. We arrived about an hour before sunset, so we didn’t have as much time as I […]
Since the last fireworks shoot, I have been wanting to return to the same spot to take a sunset picture. It looks over the city, and from what I could guess, the sun should set to the left of the tallest buildings. Sitting at home during the day, the weather report was looking like clearing skies at around 4pm. With sun setting around 4:30, I was betting on some good clouds to take pictures. I headed down with all my […]
I attended my first Meetup.com event recently. The planned shoot was a fireworks display that happens in the Old Port of Montreal every Saturday night. This being my first fireworks shoot, I was pretty excited. The people in the group were great. It was nice to meet other photographers at various levels and hear some of the techniques they used. A big thanks to Brad who let me use his White Balance lens cap what-ever-its-called and has now succeeded in […]