Ukrainian Village with Images Alberta Camera Club

Images Alberta Camera Club has an upcoming 

outing to Ukrainian Village.  In preparation, 

I was reviewing some of past year's shots. 

Here are a few of my favourites. - for today!

All of the images were processed using Adobe Lightroom 3 and plug-in presets

from OnOne software (free download).  The collage was assembled in Adobe

Photoshop CS3. 

Alberta Youth Robotics - First Lego League

Last weekend I had the privilege to volunteer with the Alberta Youth Robotics Society for their First Lego League championships. 

Teams build and program an autonomous robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS technology to score

points in 2.5-minute matches on a themed playing field.

More to come - here's a first draft of the fun from the day.

Click the arrow to start the show - view in this window as the resolution does not support full screen

viewing

Winter Feast

From a winter hike along the Trans-Canada trail in Fort Smith NWT...
an overcast day that carried into the night and obscured any chance 
of catching the northern lights. 

Red Polls(?) picking seeds.

Wait and they will come.

 

 

Highway 16 east of Japer has  two areas where the sheep come down to drink - or to lick the salt from the roadway and vehicles that stop to check them out.  I photographed this ram at the end of October using my Sigma 80-400 OS lense from my vehicle.  We waited on a roadside pullout and just let them wander up and down the shoulder until the light was right and we got the poses we wanted.  Patience paid off today before the rain came.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  copyright Fred Rushworth 2010

Fort Edmonton Christmas Lights Outing

Fort Edmonton runs a Christmas Lights tour in mid December.  The stores and buildings in the 1912 block are lit and have Christmas displays.  A young visitor stops to enjoy this teddy bear emporium. 

Year End Hike

Another year has come to a close seemingly all to soon. We celebrated today
with a hike at Elk Island National Park and a lunch of cheese, crackers and
smoked sausage cooked over the fire in one of the trail head warming huts

Here's wishing everyone a Happy New Year and all the best for 2012.   

Eye Shadow

What is a convalescing photographer to do, housebound,  on a sunny winter day?   Well, how about playing with shadows? 

This image was created while working with a needle and thread and looking to an "eye" themed shot.   After multiple closeups of the eye of the needle that just lacked interesting angles and light, I came up with this image. Bright winter sun streaming through the patio window created a strong shadow of the needle and thread on a plain white piece of paper.  I viewed the shapes from multiple angles until I found this one that really accentuated the eye and that I felt was visually interesting. A little playing with the path of the thread to create 'S' shapes against the linear needle resulted in this shot which I titled Eye Shadow.

Playing With Fire

A recent club competition was on the theme "Playing With Fire".  It reminded me of this firey sunrise over a small farm pond last fall.  The morning was just cool enough to create a light fog in the low laying valley.  The whole area came alive just as the sun crawled over the horizon.

A day with the horses

WILD ROSE EQUINE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY

 A morning spent with the horses just at sunrise a couple of weeks ago was a reminder that we wouldn't hold off winter for much longer.  A week of freezing temperatures at night has set the horse troughs and the little pond at the back of the field. 

The biggest challenge of photographing these guys was to keeping my distance.  I was almost always greeted and nuzzled for attention.

Night Watch

A 30 second exposure of the night sky from The Crossing Resort at  the border of Grasslands National Park.

Nothing fancy for equipment. A simple radio remote to trigger the shutter of my Canon XSI (although the self timer would have worked to but I didn't want to run in the dark) ,a 18-55mm lens at f3.5, shutter at 30 seconds, iso 1600 - and of course a tripod mounted low to the ground to give more presence to the sky. That isn't smoke about the cookhouse, that is the Milky Way! 

  A quick dash over to the light switch then standing in the door for 10 seconds before dashing back to kill the light created more blur in my profile that I intended.  Lesson learned.  Next time I will have an assistant or use a remote triggered flash to light in interior.