It’s back to winter here on the Alberta prairies. Our beautiful spring weather from last week has changed and today we were greeted by freezing wind that feels like -21oC.. Brrr!!! But, that’s OK, because it is the last day of February and spring is very close now. In the meantime lets concentrate on some more beautiful winter scenes… Maybe that will take our minds off the cold ;D
Kasia
Have you ever found yourself in need of a camera, because the scene you walk upon just begs to be photographed? It happens quite frequently to me and I am, often, smart enough to carry one of those with me ;D. Mind you, some days it is very easy to be prepared. All you need to do is look outside the window and you know it is going to be a beautiful morning. Here is a few shots I took during a few of such mornings. Sure hope you like these. Have a wonderful Friday guys!
Kasia
I love watching the sky. There is quite often something interesting happening there and when I have my camera with me I take pictures.. Lots of pictures.. Winter can be boring in that regards. Around here winters are, mostly, cold and dry, which means that the clouds aren’t there. However, some days we are blessed with beautiful sunrises or lovely sunsets. If we are lucky, we get cool clouds during the day as well. Today, I would like to share some images I took during last winter, just around our home. They might not be considered as wonderful landscapes, but to me they are interesting because of the sky, which is the main subject in most of them.
Kasia
One of my favorite activities in winter is taking a ride outside the city. Getting lost on country roads, hoping for the right conditions for some nice pictures and finding little treasures is always fun! Even if we aren’t lucky finding those things, there is so much beauty to find out there. They say prairies are boring, but that is not the case. And to prove my statement I’m going to share one day of prairie pictures from our last years outing. Hope you enjoy..
Kasia
There were so many images from last year that never made it to these pages. Going through them last night I kept wondering, why? Isn’t it the reason we make images to show them in public? It seems I’ve been really procrastinating in this regard, as the images just kept piling up, at least I put the time to actually edit them. I think it’s high time to clear out the back log, and start sharing these.
Living in Edmonton is a bit of unique situation. We are too far from the mountains for a daily trip, so we concentrate on what we have here in abundance. The Alberta prairies can offer a lot of beautiful image making opportunities. Lakes, forests, wildlife, and we can’t forget the big big skies. These images were one of those little trips that we love to take during the week. Days a long in the summer time, giving us a lot of time to find a good location or two. Enjoy!
After a tiring yet wonderful walk around Manhattan and Central Park, and a beautiful sunrise on the beach, our host, Dominick Chiuchiolo, took us for a little drive on Long Island. It’s a beautiful place, full of history, and charm. Colors of autumn did not disappear yet, even though it was already November. It was a stark contrast to Edmonton, when autumn ends practically in the middle of October, with Halloween seeing snow more often then not. The weather was pleasant, warm and having beautiful big trees around was a reminder to the days of childhood. We simply loved it.
Our goal for the day was a sunset at Montauk Point. There a beautiful light house there. Kasia and me were finally able to capture what we always wanted. A long exposure landscape scene with ocean waves appearing as smoke on the rocky shore. Even though the skies did not offer anything more interesting than just blue, we both were successful in capturing those images.
It really is not difficult to do. All you need is an ocean with some waves, a tripod and a very dark filter (if the images are to be done during day time). The filters we used were neutral density 10. Some call them the Big Stopper. Adding a small aperture of f16 gives perfect time to blur the waves and create that effect. The images took close to 2 min of exposure.
Since the skies were clear, we finished the day with a little of star shooting. Not a lot of light pollution, allowed for Milky Way to be visible in the sky.
It was a perfect day, spent in great company. Thank you Dominick!
Remember to click on the images to see them full size 🙂
