Christmas Ornament

A Christmas tree ornament with intentional camera movement.

I spent part of Christmas experimenting with intentional camera movement on my table top studio.

This is my contribution to Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: Show us your Christmas prompt.

Favourite Trees Of 2021

This is my contribution to Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: Your best bits prompt.

I quickly decided to go with one photo from each season. Then, when I started short listing photos I noticed that there was a preponderance of images of trees.

So four of my favourite tree images from 2021.

Winter. Intentional camera movement of trees in snow. An on going project, I decided to limit myself to just one ICM image for this post.

Spring. A group of trees illuminated by the rising sun. Isolated with a long telephoto as I was photographing birds at the time.

Summer. An exploding tree? Light beams behind a tree shortly after sunrise courtesy of a mix of mist and smoke. The smoke was from wildfires burning in western Canada.

Autumn. Trees in snow on the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at sunrise. Taken after the heaviest snowfall of the autumn. The snow has since thawed after a mild spell.

A Cold Start

This is my contribution to Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: A Cold Start prompt.

Four recent cold starts around the South Bruce Peninsula.

A section of the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline shortly before sunrise.

A section of the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at sunrise.

Berford Lake at sunrise.

Colpoy’s Bay shortly after sunrise.

Movement

Two different types of movement recorded with a camera.

Intentional camera movement where the camera is moved during exposure and live composite where the camera record’s movement during exposure.

This is my contribution to Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art for Art’s Sake prompt.

Intentional camera movement of trees in early spring.

A 40 minute live composite exposure of Colpoy’s Bay at twilight with the lights of several vehicles travelling along Mallory Beach Road.

Intentional camera movement of tree bark.

A live composite exposure of clouds moving across Colpoy’s Bay at sunrise. Taken with the TTArtisan 7.5mm fisheye lens.

Some Autumn Maple Leaves

This is my contribution to Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: Let’s hear it for the leaves prompt.

Most of the leaves in this part of Ontario have been off the trees for a while now. However, a few weeks ago I started picking up interesting leaves with the intention of doing some table top studio photos using them. The fallen leaves have been buried under snow a few times since I started collecting them.

#1. A backlit section.

#2. Suspended over a mirror.

#3. Close up detail.

#4. Lying on a mirror.

Water Textures on the Bay

This is my contribution to Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: Interesting Textures prompt.

Four different views of Colpoy’s Bay on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario at sunrise in autumn.

Colpoy’s Bay Skies

This is my contribution to Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: Look to the Skies prompt.

Four recent skies over Colpoy’s Bay on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario.

A 40 minute live composite exposure of star trails over the bay at twilight yesterday morning.

The rising sun illuminating cloud over the bay two days ago.

Storm clouds over the bay at sunrise eight days ago.

Fishing off the Government Dock at dawn eleven days ago.