My other major interest that involves photography is diving but because I don't get to do it very often I use much cheaper gear than for my land based work. My underwater rig consists of a Canon G 9 in the Canon housing & 2 rather old Sea & Sea strob...
Way back in 2008 I wanted to get some panning practice in ahead of attending some Vintage Racing events. I had heard of a major radio control event about an hour from home & thought it would be perfect. At the end of my stay I talked to one of the or...
I ran across a picture I took a while back. This, by far, was the most difficult picture that I took...I was chasing after two western swallow tail butterflies involved in a courtship dance above an open grass field...I did it after almost tripping ...
I had never seen the famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) musical ride and had not expected to do so until I got the word that they were doing a show in my local area of Victoria BC. To quote the RCMP website: "The RCMP Musical Ride is perform...
I throughly enjoyed yesterdays experiance and part of my expericance was taking pictures with my camera and also with my camera mounted on my 8" Schmit-Cassigrain telescope. I had about a dozen family and neighbors in my driveway during the event a...
Model aircraft still fly very fast, but are much smaller and fly a lot lower than their full-size cousins. I had never tried to do this before and I was just getting used to my Canon 7DMkII and 100-400MkII, but the opportunity to see a show near my ...
I haven't used my Rebel for a while now. Last year, did some night sky shots, but have lens issues so they came out so-so. Still have a lens issue, but today I didn't use that lens, but my telephoto for a Safari. I have quite a few tht came out very...
I carry a camera pretty well everywhere I go. I have a choice (just look at my gear list!) but when I am not specifically shooting I usually take a smaller body and lighter lens - these days that is the Canon 80D with the 18-135 IS STM. I am not oft...
Today, is the day, national camera day 2016. Today is the day to snap a photo of your everyday life and share it. My everyday life is a lot of face time staring at traffic through my windshield. Boring. Here's a flower from my front yard.
