Yellow Bug, Black Sky

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annual fall outing to Alden's Salvage was a great success again this year with over twenty members in attendance.

Every year that I go to these events, I am fortunate to find new material or new approaches to presenting a piece of our automotive past.

This was a fortunate find at almost the end of the day.  Something caught my eye, either the oddity of the little car, its sad little face or the fact that it sat apart from its large North American peers.

A low angle shot and a circular polarizer proved the approach to separate this car visually.  Finally, a quick bit of post processing using curves allowed me to blow the blue in the sky and pull the faded yellow in the paint.

Moon Over Yellowknife Bay

Sitting in the Yellowknife airport waiting for a weather delayed plane and the camera batteries are dead.  Not much to share from today as it is snowing creating a low flat light.  I made a few images down at the pier in Old Town, a favorite spot for me.   The house boats are freezing in for another winter but a few hardy souls are breaking the think slushy ice with their motor boats as they commute from home to work across the bay.  By noon, the water has a fresh layer of soft ice set again marking their path.  Soon the house boaters will have to stay put or camp out with friends in town until the bay freezes hard enough to cross by foot or snowmobile.  A few dogs manage to romp back and forth across the ice further down the bay, the ice strong enough to support their play.



These shots are from April this year as the ice was just starting to melt.  People were still running snowmobiles across the bay but there were temporary gangways bridging the 2 or 3 metre gap between the shore and solid ice.






And finally, a Cross Fox - named for the lighter cross shaped marking across it's shoulders and back

Playing in Photshop with new graphics for 'imagery' newsletter

 

 

 

 

Created a mask using text them erased the rest of the image, embossed and shadowed

Mask of text over Downtown Reflections in Scotia Tower