Lucky

I could have been all sentimental and written about how lucky we are to live in Canada (on this eve of Canada Day) and how a great number of people in the rest of the world have to live with ruins like this, with their lives in ruin like this, but I won't.

Pentax K200D
DA 18-55mm lens (@24mm)
f4
ISO 100
1/400 sec.

BTW, this is what's left of MSA Hospital, in case you were curious or thought I had recently taken a trip to a war-torn area of the world.

One lily

There seems to be something of the eternal in a flower.

Pentax K200D
DA 18-55mm lens (@55mm)
f5.6
ISO 100
1/200 sec.

This is a photo of what is called the "blue hour", or that hour during which twilight fades to black. I love evenings. I wish I wasn't sleeping for most of them.

Pentax K200D
Sigma 70-210mm lens
f4
ISO 400
1/20 sec.

Embers

It is often fire that forges us into who we are. Pain is what makes us.

Sheesh...I'm glad school's over for another summer.

Pentax K200D
Chinon 50mm lens
f1.4
ISO 200
1/60 sec.

Wonder falls

Falls at the Friendship Garden. Don't worry; soon I'll have time to shoot some other locales.

Pentax K200D
Chinon 50mm lens
f22
ISO 100
0.6 sec.

BW kids

I think I like this better in black and white. Wouldn't everything be easier if it were all black and white?

Pentax K200D
DA 18-55mm lens (@24mm)
f29
ISO 100
1/2 sec.
b&w and levels changed in PS CS4

Flower too...

If we could see the miracle of a flower clearly, our whole life would change. - Buddha

Pentax K200D
Chinon 50mm lens
f1.4
ISO 100
1/400 sec.

Waterfall

Taking a picture of the waterfall with a slight blur and holding the camera steady - easy.

Getting Ben to sit still during the time it takes to get the waterfall a little blurry - nigh unto impossible.

Pentax K200D
DA 18-55mm lens (@ 24mm)
f29
ISO 100
1/2 sec.

Must be a practice swing...

We went to the driving range today. It was Hannah and Ben's first time golfing, and they were spectacular.

Pentax K200D
DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)
f3.5
ISO 400
1/400 sec.

Happy Father's Day, Dad

"We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child — it’s the courage to raise one." - Barack Obama

Thanks, Dad, for raising me.

Pentax K200D
Chinon 50mm lens
f1.4
ISO 1600
1/60 sec.
B&W in PS CS4

The Power and the Glory

It's the little boy that lives in my head who is so obsessed with all that power.

Pentax K200D
Tokina 28-70mm lens (@28mm)
f3.9
ISO 100
1/250 sec.
B&W in PS CS4

Clouds at sunset

I stood on top of my chimney to get this shot. I love when the clouds look all apocalyptish...

Pentax K200D
Sigma 70-210mm lens (@210mm)
f4
ISO 200
1/500 sec.

Lonely

There is little in the world that seems more lonely than a playground without children.

Pentax K200D
DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)
f3.5
ISO 400
1/320 sec.

Bokeh of lights

Out of focus lens plus long shutter speed at night equals blurry taillights and a bit of a bokeh effect. Huh...

Pentax K200D
DA 18-55mm lens (@38mm)
f4.5
ISO 800
1/6 sec.

Blue Barrel Redux

I took almost the identical shot back in January while waiting for Hannah to get out of school. It's amazing what five months will do for a photo. Go back and check January 27 for a comparison.

Pentax K200D
Tokina 28-70mm lens
f8
ISO 100
1/160 sec.

Stop

Stop. In the name of love, or something.

Pentax K200D
Tokina 28-70mm lens
f8
ISO 100
1/125
B&W and grain added in PS CS4

Just Dandy

I realize this is another flower picture. I guess I'm just feeling sensitive or something. It's not like I want to watch "Terms of Endearment" or anything. I'm listening to K-OS while I post this. I'm not getting in touch with my feminine side.

I'm also way too defensive. I think I'll just go cry...uh...hit something. Yeah...

Pentax K200D
Chinon 50mm lens
f1.4
ISO 100
1/800 sec.
Some manipulation of colour in PS CS4 (curves, channel mixer)

Flower

I was watching a documentary on Henri Cartier-Bresson and he said that when a picture is right there is no need to crop. Well, I think Monsieur Cartier-Bresson should have been introduced to Photoshop. He might have liked it.

Also, I cropped this picture just a tiny bit.

Not much at all.

Really.

Pentax K200D
Sigma 70-210 lens + extension tube
f4
ISO 400
1/500 sec.

Sunset

So desperate to take photos, I ran through a parking lot to try to get a shot of this low, large, red sun that insisted on showing through the haze of the end of a warm Fraser Valley day.

Pentax K200D
DA 18-55mm lens (@40mm)
f4.5
ISO 200
1/500 sec.

My kids

Look! It's popstar girl and super boy! Right there! Posing for their Dad! Wow!

Pentax K200D
Tokina 28-70mm lens (@70mm)
f4
ISO 100
1/160 sec.

9, 10, 11, 12

I had to fill up the van last night after delivering a speech to the grads at prom. I had Tank with me, as I now go almost nowhere without it, and I liked the glow from the blue lights around the top of the Sumas Way Chevron. Nothing poetic, nor political, nor humorous. Just pretty lights.

Pentax K200D
DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)
f3.5
ISO 800
1/25 sec.

Mothra!

I came home from buying a new pair of Vans today, and this little guy was hugging my stucco.

Pentax K200D
Sigma 70-210mm lens (+extension tube)
f4 (for what it's worth, with the extensions on the lens)
ISO 400
1/30 sec.

Supportive, too

Not much to say today. Must be the heat.

Pentax K200D
Tokina 28-70mm lens
f11
ISO 100
1/100 sec.
B&W and curves in PS CS4

Supportive

Geometry in real life.

Pentax K200D
Tokina 28-70mm lens
f11
ISO 100
1/50 sec.

My dearest...

Pentax K200D
Chinon 50mm lens
f1.4
ISO 100
1/800 sec.

The playground

Did you ever have one of those tires in your playground that smelled like someone had done something in it they shouldn't have?

Pentax K200D
Chinon 50mm lens
f1.4
ISO 100
1/320 sec.