[Canon G10]
September 3, 2010
August 31, 2010
Driving Home
Dwight Arthur (Photek), commercial photographer, along with his son Timothy and myself, were down in Calgary photographing some buildings for a developer and on the way back to Red Deer late in the evening, we drove through a couple of small thunderstorms. I decided to drag the shutter on my G10 to see if I might capture a stroke of lightning. I held the camera on the dash (Dwight was driving! I know you were thinking I was.) and pressed the shutter button for a 15 second exposure. A few cars and one large semi-trailer truck drove by on the other side of the highway during the exposure. Obviously I couldn’t hold the camera very steady and so the light streaks became jagged as the camera bounced around in my hands. I got a few images and mostly they were a disappointment, but this one I felt was interesting.
[Canon G10]
January 31, 2010
New York City 49
This parking garage in downtown Manhattan was jammed full for a mere $25.00/hour! I don’t understand why a person would drive their vehicle into downtown, only to pay an astronomical price to park, when you could jump onto the subway for only $2.00.
January 25, 2010
December 7, 2009
November 28, 2009
August 13, 2009
Hot Rods!!
It takes no effort what’s so ever to get me out to drool over some great old vehicles!! Red Deer hosted a huge meet a couple weekends ago with around 1200 cars from all over western Canada and some from the states as well. Friday night around 7pm I dragged Laura and the boy’s downtown to watch the cruise. I say drag, because I’m virtually certain they would have rather been watching a good movie or playing video games at home. Thankfully they did manage amuse me for about 45 minutes or so. I really can’t figure out my boys and have trouble understanding how they can’t ogle these fine pieces of engineering as long as I can! Well wouldn’t you know we come across our good friend Ed and his son Tyler. The look on Laura’s face must have said a lot as Ed very quickly offered to give me a ride home and (thusly) sp.?? put my family out of it’s misery. Thank you Ed!! We stayed downtown until well after dark and until virtually every vehicle had finally made it out onto Gaetz Avenue for the real reason you own a vehicle like this – serious cruisin’. Ahhh, the smell of fossil fuels being burned by some mean horsepower – there really is nothing to compare it to.
