Afternoon Flight with Edmonton Flying Club

Micheal ready for takeoff

Last Saturday Images Alberta Camera Club had an outing at Edmonton Flying Club.  We spent the morning with one of their staff photographing a variety of their small aircraft on the tarmac.  After lunch, David, Micheal and I snagged one of their $100 introductory flights.  We flew east out to Beverly bridge where we were able to see the new bridge being built for the North East Anthony Hendy freeway.  From there, we banked west and followed the river past downtown and the U of A. A quick pass to West Edmonton Mall and then back to the city center airport.

Tire is still there -  as we pass over Rundle Park

Micheal catching downtown from his rearseat

David 'shotgunning' between the propeller sweeps

University Of Alberta

Hawrelak Park

It was a great day and the price of the aircraft split two or three ways was a great finish.  I will have to look at this again in the fall when the trees are changing colour.

Muttart Conservatory - Desert Moon

I have just finished submitting my image choices to the Muttart Conservatory's Shutter Bug contest.  The rules called for the images to be un-edited so I was unable to use this image taken in the Arid Pavilion on a late winter afternoon.  The sun was low on the horizon and just barely shone through the glass but it created a glow on the cacti needles.  I underexposed the scene when I shot it to capture that glow and to preserve the shadows while eliminating some background that was much darker.  The moon was added in post production to provide a visual light source to explain the 'night glow'.

Framing and text added as PS3 layers

On The Edge - Salmon Glacier

From my 'On The Edge' series of landscape shots. Taken above Salmon Glacier, north of Stewart B.C. / Hyder Alaska.

Select Images From MS Bike Tour

Saturday Morning Start Line

A wetter Start on Sunday

Heading into the wind

Best Costumes - A real pair of Mooovers

Heather coping with the rain

Hey Dad! We can stop pedaling now!

Finish Line Smiles

Waiting For Mom!

6 Photographers, 2000 Images, 3 hours to showtime?  No Sweat!,

Well a little but at 4pm we had our show ready for the evening banquet.  Thanks Crew!

Canada Day Fireworks and Midway at Edmonton

A variety of shutter speeds and light settings capturing a few of the tens of thousands who attended the Canada Day Fireworks display and midway in Millwoods, Edmonton

Prairie Postcards - Windmill and Weather

Against the wind and time, this farmstead weathers another storm.

Prairie Postcards - The Old School House

The Old Brick School House

Catching The Action

Last weekend seven members of Images Alberta Camera Club volunteered with the M.S. Society and provided photography services.  We spent two days following the 2000 riders on their 190 KM return trek from Leduc to Camrose on Saturday and returning Sunday.  


As I was photographing the teams in the starting queue I caught this young man photographing his father in the starting line on his i-pad.  I just liked the concept of the picture within a picture and I may use this image in an upcoming article about phonography and alternative cameras in an upcoming issue of Imagery.  Imagery is the Images Alberta Camera Club newsletter and it can be found at imagesalberta.ca/imagery 

Gone:

Spring at Muttart Conservatory

Spring at Muttart Conservatory

A visit to the Muttart is always a sure cure for the photographer's blues.   Late last month, between snow banks and the first sprouts of spring, I captured these images during a relaxing afternoon indoors

Picnic Time

 Daffodils, tulips and lilies filled 
the feature pavilion with  the colours 
and smells of all that is fresh and 
right with spring.