Switches: Photo a day #34

Two days of black and white in a row, I make no apologies. Intentionally very dark, just seemed to feel right as I was framing the shot.

I never take a thing for granted

Been a while since I shared some music ...

I remember hearing Sevendust a long time ago, but it's only recently that I've really gotten into them.

Sevendust - Denial


Sevendust - Hope


Sevendust - Separate


Sevendust - Clueless

Weekend shots: Photo a day #31, #32, and #33

No terribly interesting photos taken over the weekend.

February 25 2011, Photo a day #31 - Level

February 26 2011, Photo a day #32 - Light snow

February 27 2011, Photo a day #33 - Self, playing guitar

Iron ring: Photo a day #30

Worn by a fair majority of Canadian Engineers, mine's too big for my finger so it's hanging from my rearview mirror until I eventually get around to getting a replacement. This photo came out far better than I expected.

EMG 81: Photo a day #29

It's cold out ... so here's a fairly boring shot of a guitar pickup.

SD Card: Photo a day #28

Found out last night this cheap SDHC card won't actually work in my camera, at least I managed to get some use out of it.



Now I'm off to pat myself on the back for managing to stick to four weeks of daily photos!

Robertson Wesley United Church: Photo a day #27

I find churches aesthetically pleasing.

Weekend shots: Photo a day #25 and #26

Saturday was a busy day, luckily I brought my camera along for at least part of it ...

February 19 2011, Photo a day #25 - Skee ball

Tonight I took a drive downtown to grab a pic of the Art Gallery of Alberta. It really is a fantastic building, I hope to get more pictures of it when the weather is nicer. Unfortunately the traffic lights will still be there

February 20 2011, Photo a day #26 - Art Gallery of Alberta

Park bridge: Photo a day #24

It was cold out, but the sun was shining so I decided to do an outdoors shot today.  Stopped by Whitemud Ravine Park briefly and figured this bridge was the most interesting of the pictures I got.

Finally filled in

I got my flammable tattoo filled in yesterday, it came out great!

A visit to the museum

I didn't actually go inside said museum (the Royal Alberta Museum here in Edmonton), but while I was there getting my daily photo a couple of weeks ago I got a few more pictures as well.

Fake Flowers: Photo a day #23

Steam: Photo a day #22

This would have been a great shot if I spent a bit more time setting it up. As done I couldn't get both the focus and composition right because I was holding the steam source with one hand. Automatic focus doesn't seem to work on steam (which I had found out last year) and when you've only got one hand for the camera the only way you can manually focus is to move the camera and steam closer or farther from each other.

All that said, it's not a bad picture and it was far more fun to take than the photos I posted over the last couple of days.

Beat Frequency Oscillator: Photo a day #21

Just some random signal processing stuff we've got around the lab.

Lines: Photo a day #20

Another dailyshoot.com assignment photo. Definitely a bit on the boring side with regards to subject matter, but it is what it is ...

Weekend shots: Photo a day #17, #18, #19

Friday's and Saturday's pics were taken while I was at my parents' place this weekend. Last night I took one when I got back to Edmonton.

February 11 2011, Photo a day #17 - Birdhouse

February 12 2011, Photo a day #18 - Valentine's Cookies (courtesy of my daughters and my mom)

February 13 2011, Photo a day #19 - Muttart Conservatory

Enclosed: Photo a day #16

A self portrait ... taken from inside a server enclosure. I was a bit stuck today, this was inspired by today's dailyshoot.com assignment (on Dave's suggestion and from another photo blog I follow.)

Space and Science Center: Photo a day #15

Err, the Telus World of Science (it'll always be the Edmonton Space and Science Center to me!)

Transformer: Photo a day #14

Not Optimus Prime ... sorry for that disappointment.

Cromdale Hotel: Photo a day #13

Vacant since 2004, demolition ordered in 2009, last I heard the owners were still appealing the order.

Weekend shots: Photo a day #10, #11, and #12

My shots from both Friday and Saturday were of the "ugh, I've gotta get a picture before I sleep" variety. Saturday's shot was even taken in the wee hours this morning. I like to think I made up for it with today's shot though, given that it's well outside of my norm.

February 4 2011, Photo a day #10

February 5 2011, Photo a day #11

February 6 2011, Photo a day #12 - Ceiling of a Chinese Pavillion (I think)

The composition on that one is very slightly off, unfortunately that was as wide as I could take the shot.  I was already at 18mm and lying on my back on a pile of snow and ice.  I actually got quite a few good shots today, a result of some gentle (and much appreciated) cajoling to check out the Royal Alberta Museum grounds instead of randomly heading downtown.  More of them will probably be posted at a later date.

Dent/Pharm: Photo a day #9

I decided to crank my aperture down to f/22 today (inspired by a dpreview challenge) and take some pictures of the Dentistry/Pharmacy building on campus. Technically I was fairly unimpressed with the result, I expected some loss of quality vs. my usual night pictures but this was a bit worse than I thought it would be. That said, I quite like how it came out.



I took quite a few more pictures as well, including some with wider apertures, so I'll probably post a bit more from this set at some point.

Excavator detail: Photo a day #8

NREF: Photo a day #7