I was lucky enough this past July to have 2 separate trips to PEI. The first was a working trip for my wife, and we (the rest of the family) tagged along and went adventuring. The second trip was an organized vacation with 3 other families to a rented ‘Villa’ for a week. We had an awesome time!
I did not make much time for photography – as I was having way too much fun with friends and family - but I did get a few scenic shot of the areas we visited. What a great place!
I love my little New Brunswick Waterfall book! Thank you Nicholas Guitard!
My Plug: Waterfalls of New Brunswick: A Guide – get it at Westminster Books!
Anyway – I looked up a new spot that seemed easy to get to, and called up a friend and said “Let’s go!”.
What a little adventure we had! First, we left a little late, and grabbed some Tim Horton’s breakfast one the way. After driving for about 45 min., we thought we were probably getting close, and we pulled off for a water, and a snack to take with us, my friend also picked up some sunglasses as he lost his last pair. The falls were a little farther than we thought, and after a few circles we realized that the road indicated in the guide was incorrect and we needed to start to try a few to find the right one…It was about this time that my friend decided the jerky he recently ate was not agreeing with him, and we needed to pull over soon so he could leave it in the bushes. Back in the car, and off to find the falls, 2 min later my friend declared he left his sunglasses with the jerky. We decided to get them on the way back, and found the path to the falls minutes later. On the way down the path we saw 2-3 piles of scat, which I was told was from a bear – great. We spend about an hour shooting the falls, picked up the sunglasses on the way home, got back about an hour after we planned, and had a great morning in the end.
Vomit, Driving, Sunglasses, and Bear Poop. What an adventure!
Oh yeah, the falls…..
I have been shooting dress rehearsals for Theater New Brunswick for over a year now, and I had one of my photos in the Telegraph Journal!
Theater New Brunswick is running this awesome commissioned work for 24 shows (I believe).
This time, I was only able to shoot during a preview performance (like a dress rehearsal with audience), and was limited to where I could shoot from. (normally I move where I want to in the seating area during a dress rehearsal) I stood behind the audience for the first half, and to the left of the audience for the second half.
This photo was taken with my Tamron 17-50mm 2.8 @ 50mm and f/4 @ 1/250th sec. ISO 2000 on my 50D – and run through Neat Image to reduce noise.
I was shooting with the Tamron 17-50mm 2.8 on my 50D and the Canon 70-200mm 2.8 L IS on my 20D. Halfway through (when I moved closer to the front) and switched the 70-200mm for the Canon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5. My ISO was 1600+ on both cameras, and I generally kept the aperture between 2.8 and 5.6, and the shutter speed at 1/focal length or higher.
I like candids, and the actors invariably have great expressions to capture – but I am there to get a good record of the show, stage, lighting, etc for documentary purposes (and maybe a little advertising). I have to push myself to go for the wider shots more and more.
What fun!
Well, my time and dedication to editing my hobby and snapshot photos changes like the tide. Which is appropriate as I spent 2 weeks in July in PEI! The first trip was with my own family (my wife was working at Summerfest during the Canada Day week). The second (a week later) was in a luxury rental property with 3 other families – it was great!
My first post is a link to a small collections of BMX stunt shots – these guys were great! and Crazy! Enjoy…
BMX show at Summerfest in PEI 2010
A couple of recent examples of birds, and some more exercise of my new lens…
My wife and I went to the Fundy Trail a few weeks ago, just outside of St. Martins, NB. We found a wonderful fruit tree (apple?) with much buzzing – turns out that there were about 5 hummingbirds (ruby throated) having a feast. Out came the lens, those are small birds – would have been nice to have the 1.4x TC! I am glad for the 15MP of my 50D – the following photo is about a 50% crop of the original.
I also returned for more Osprey photos, and got another good one – looks similar to the first – oh well – nice birds!
I also had a few issues with my LowePro Compu-Trekker AW, and LowePro was great about replacing it – I now have a Pro Runner 350 Aw – in my opinion it is a more refined version of what I had – a little smaller, but I think they learned from their previous product and made it better – go LowePro!
