Thin Ice

Ice fishing hut gone through the thin ice of Lake Simcoe in late January 2008.

Been quite a warm winter this year.

A few more images at the Flicker Photostream

Camera used with a 150mm lens @ ISO 200

Listening to the sedate croonings of Ozzie Osbourne tonight.

2008 - Self assignment No:1

First of a series.
More of the series can be seen in the Associated interest link: Iridium

No photoshop crutch used to create the image.
Only traditional lighting techniques.

45mm lens, f/13 @ 1 second.

Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii DVD sooths the night.

Zoo Visit after early November snow.

Dang Travel agent!
What is all this cold white stuff on the ground.



















At least the Dens have radient heat installed in the rocks!
















A few more shots can be seen at the Associated interest link:
Flickr Photostream

Doing a bit of practice hand holding heavy glass this trip.
Most shots were done with a 300mm f/2.8 lens.

Today Stevie Ray Vaughan's new CD Solos, Sessions & Encores plays through then night.

Evening at volume 11

Spent an evening at a great guitar session sponsored by Fernder and Hal Leonard.

All the musicians were stellar
The demo band consisted of

The Drummer: Tom Brechtlein http://www.tombrechtlein.com/index.html
The Bassman: Reggie Hamilton http://reggiehamilton.com/
The Guitarist: Greg Koch http://gregkoch.com/

Greg proved to be an amazing player easily switching from one genre to another.
He demonstrated the Fender Stratocaster, Telecaster, the new VG Stratocaster, and the Supersonic amplifier.
Keeping the crowd enthralled with a constant stream of great stores impromptu songs. (and references to how the Hal Leonard music method books are very useful training aids)

Reggie demonstrated his signature Fender jazz bass. He proved to be an incredibly versatile player. Gave us one of those ah-ha moments about what a bass can do when in the hands of a great bassman.

Tom wailed away at his drum kit and flawlessly set the beat for the demos!

The room was packed to overflowing, the volume knobs were all set to 11 and a great evening was had by all.
( Near the end when door prises were being selected I won a "Greg Koch Guitar Gristle" DVD, and my mate got a Fender hat (which is funny as he is a firm Gibson fanatic) )

Sorry no images this time, I was too busy watching and learning from the players to remember to snap any pictures.
I did get very nice autographed 8*10's from Reggie (shot by Steve Pitkin) and Greg (shot by Jim Weiland) .

They were good for sales too!
I now own several of the Hal Leonard Guitar books and DVD's!
And am looking into a "Jimi Hendrix experience" effects pedal by Digitech recommended by Greg instead of a plain wah-wah.

New direction

New season has arrived and with it a new direction.

Getting burned out doing nothing but imaging so took up learning to make music for the winter.

Guitar is a Fender American Deluxe HSS Stratocaster with a little Roland Cube 20x practice amp

A few more shots of it and it predecessor ( a Fender Mexican standard that I bought just one month ago, then sold to move up to this model.) can be seen at the
Associated interest links: Flickr photostream


Image Info: 28mm f/2.8 lens, ISO 100, f/8 , 1/200
Lighting one 1600ws and one 800ws strobes with a 60inch photoflex reflector doing some bounce back and shot on seamless background.

Todays tunes are by Hendrix.

Harvest time

Wheel keeps on turning into the future past.

The Harvest moon has already passed and soon the yearly cycle will end.
Once again heading us into the depths of winter, to spin the wheel and begin the cycle anew.

Image Info: ISO 1600, 24 mm lens, f/4.0 @ multiple shots combined to get the dynamic range needed for this shot


Denean's "Fire Prayer" provides the background sounds this day.

Summer fun at the beach

Beach at Sibbalds Point Provincial Park taken on the last weekend of the summer of 2007.
Each segment is comprised of eight 8.2megapixel shots, image totals 120mp after merge.
Total image prints out full size at 14 inches by 10.25 feet.

Image info for all 16 shots
50mm f/1.8 lens, tripod with pano head, 4 bubble levels used :)
ISO 100 , f/11 , 1/1.25

Today we listen to Spinal Tap and the volume knob is at 11!