The Best of My Summer 2022 Photos
Here are some of my favorite photos (in a variety of styles) taken in July, August and early-September of 2022, in the Edmonton’s: river valley:
Flowers of summer:
Here are some favorite black and white or monochrome photos:
In early August I captured some interesting geometric abstracts mostly from at MacEwan University:
and in an abstract vein, using Intentional Camera Movement:
And a few more nature-y images from late summer:
Finally a monochrome photo of Dawson Bridge, with a late-summer evening haze:
Old But Not That Old
I’ve recently been experimenting with software that simulates the look of photos created through the history of photography. The software that I am using is DxO’s FilmPack 6 (FP6). Among the historical looks that appeal to me and that I have been applying to some of my photos, are the style of the early 1900’s and especially that of Eugene Atget, a French photographer.
I thought that some of my photos, taken in the 80’s, in Paris, might be particularly suited to the historical treatment. My photos from that time were obviously taken on film and I subsequently scanned and digitized them, so they lost some of the detail in the process but given the limits of film and processing from a hundred years ago I think that only adds to the authenticity of the look. Here are two of my photos software-adjusted to simulate the look of photos from around the year 1900:
Here are photos that I took in 1984 at Paris’s Père-Lachaise Cemetery. These are intended to look like something Atget may have captured in the first couple of decades of the 1900’s:
One of my reasons to visit that cemetery was to see the final resting place of Jim Morrison:
So what do I think of software manipulation of photos to give them an antique or historical look? Well it is kind of fun and I’ll probably play around with it a bit more, particularly on old, low quality images. I’m not trying to fool anyone but if the look of the photo contributes to the mood conveyed by the image and that helps tell the story then I think the historical treatment is valid.
Autumn Color
Here are some color photographs from early October 2016, featuring the colors of the season (or not particularly)!
Wrinkled Green Trunk
All Blues
Just a Crow
Like Fireworks
Between the Blues
Rainbow Shrubbery
Orange-Red
Tree Shadow
Late Winter – Black and White
Here is a little collection of black and white photos themed around the patterns and textures of late winter (late February at my home here in Edmonton).
“Last Year’s Plume”
“Irregular Patchwork”
“Up”
“Ice and the Far Edge”
“Temporary Condition”
A few more photos from this photo shoot may be seen on another of my blogs: YEGmonton.
Lines in Black and White
Take away the color and you are left with line and value.
Up Stairs 1
Art of the Curve
Hangin’ From the Moon
EPCOR Waterfall in Edmonton’s Churchill Square
Up Stairs 2
If You Look You Will See
Today was another one of those days when I just go for a walk in downtown Edmonton and see what I can see – what I can see in terms of interesting patterns.
Moving This Way and That
I have often used camera motion during a long exposure to create an abstract photo. I recently took some of these photos one evening in downtown Edmonton and discovered after the fact that I have used a good variety of camera motions for different effects.
Dance in the Distance
Cycles of Light
Towers of Dripping Light
Side Step
Scratchy
A Winter’s Night In Olds
I found myself spending a few days (and nights) in the small central Alberta town of Olds. One cold evening, there was a fog hanging about – not enough to obscure things near by, but enough to lend an eerie feeling to the sky. I took my camera out (with my fast 1.4 lens and a 1600 ISO setting) and walked about capturing images – handheld! This set are of some of the color (admittedly rather subdued) images that I came up with.
White House Amongst Frosted Trees
Olds Petro Can
Snow Pile by the Crossing
Red Fire Hydrant
Best Western (January Night)
Watch for a future post featuring some black and white images from that night.
Architectural Black and White
Here are five black and white renditions of photos I took yesterday of and around the Edmonton Convention Centre (Shaw Conference Centre). These images focus on form:
Stairs
Edges
Concrete Cuboid
Hall D
Reflection in a Curved Wall
Walls
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I was walking through an older part of downtown the other day when some interesting architectural details caught my eye. Combine those details, with different points of view for a photo and then different cropping twisting and processing after the shutter press, leads to some interesting images:
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This second image started from the same original photograph. This next one, is not the same photo but is from the same wall, at a different perspective:
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Across the street from this wall, I took this image:
Top of the Wall
This image was processed with the Color Efex infrared film filter through Capture NX2.
Down an alley, and 30 meters away, I found another intriguing exterior wall that I just had to capture:
Old Brick Wall
And finally, another take on this highly textured brick wall:
Bricks and Mortar
Boats, Bridges and Bikes
A few of my favorite black and white photos from the last week:
Grounded
Morning Sun
Rough Wall
Bridge Rail
A Bike and a Bridge
Ordinary Things – 5 photos
I have been between cameras lately and therefore haven’t had much to share. My Nikon DLSR failed and has been sent for repairs. I grew tired of the limits of my iPhone camera (although really missing the creative possibilities of various apps). I have bought a small point and shoot camera – a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7. The last few days I have been learning how to use the new camera. Here are a few results, shot with the ZS7 and post-processed with Capture NX2.
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Hueless City
There are some days when black and white just seems right. On a day like today (March 24th) when fresh snow covers the City of Edmonton, its one of those days. Here are some of my favorite photos du jour:
Komatsu
Lots of Parking
Downtown Alley
Glass Blocks
Teatime
Friday Night Frights
Something a little different today. I have continued with my experiment from yesterday – of using a very slow (1 second) shutter speed and “painting” with light.
What I found on my camera tonight were a number of images that I find a little bit disturbing – unsettling is perhaps a better word. Some are colorful, playful and interesting but somehow they seem like something out of a bad dream – Welcome to my nightmare…
Twilight Cascade
Take the Bridge
The Tangle in the Night
Light Storm
Bad Dream
How do these images make you feel? What quality (or lack thereof) do you think accounts for the feeling?
Coming and Going – The Light of a February Day
Here are some photos that I took on a relatively cold February 8th in central Edmonton. The first 4 pictures feature the morning sun and the last 3 show artificial lights at the end of the day:
Sunrise Over the 'Dale
Morning Sun
Cold but Bright Monring Skyline
Reflected Sun Silhouette
Dance of Light 2
Alley Light
Window Glow
See more of my photos at my website and on my Flickr Photostream
7 Favorite Photos
Here are seven of my favorite photos taken in the last week – the end of January into the first few days of February. Over these days the weather in Edmonton has changed from wind chills below -30C to mild sunny days with temperatures of +5. On the cold days I had no choice but to take photos with my Nikon DSLR but on the warm days I was able to break out (and most importantly operate it with my bare hands) my iPhone.
Cold and Busy
China Gate Lion
Blue Shakes
Golden Horizon
Branches
Puddles in the Alley
Light Arc
January Variety (Photos)
Here are a good variety of photos that I took this third week of January 2010. There are some night, some day, some clear, some snowy, some abstract, some representational:
Edmonton Southside Skyline
Snowy Morning - Dawson Bridge
Street Rabbit
Blue Waves
Abstract Snow
Facade and 50 Abstracts
Color in a Cold Dark City
Consider this part two of my presentation of photos taken on the cold snowy night of January 14th in downtown Edmonton. In a previous post I shared 7 black and white photos from that evening. In this post we look at color photos, although admittedly in some images the colors are pretty subtle.
Trees, Signs and Lights in a Snowstorm
Some Kind of Snow Monster?
Fighter
Snow Booth
Stairwell
Lights at the Corner
Lonely Bike Rack
Jasper Avenue Southside
Snow on the Wires, Snow on the Windows
Lamp and Snow Mounds
Snow Load
Randall Talbot - Artist 