No Snow Angels... yet.

Finally after one week of near hurricane winds, it's back to normal. Well if you consider 15 cm of snow normal.

Anyways, I'm enjoying the weather a lot. Unfortunately there is only one week to go before school starts again. Ah well...


Alberta driveway


Lone


Tracks


Autumn Leftover


Numb toes


Big Flake


Lone II


Windows XP Snowy Edition


Peek


Free publicity for TNF


Stripes


Um


Done to death, but still had to be done


Thorny


Frozen Rush Reference. Geddit? Geddit??


Butt cooler


Getting there...


Farewell

After an hour of shooting resulting in frozen fingers and toes, I realized I still have so much to learn about composition. And also that I would love to have the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II.

They were right, this is indeed a dangerous hobby for the pocket (or in my case, the Paypal account)

Note: All shot in RAW, converted to jpeg using Adobe Camera Raw 3.6 on Photoshop CS2. Some minor cropping, sharpening and resizing applied.

Just as I was about to go to work...

Wind warning for:
Lethbridge-Taber-Milk River

STRONG WEST WINDS OVER SOUTHERN ALBERTA TODAY.

A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CURRENTLY NEAR DRUMHELLER IS EXPECTED TO TRACK EASTWARDS DURING THE DAY. SOUTH OF THIS LOW TRACK PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA HAVE BEEN REPORTING SEVERE WESTERLY WINDS. WINDS OF 70 GUSTING TO 120 KM/H ARE EXPECTED FOR THE WATERTON PINCHER CREEK AREAS TODAY WHILE OTHER LOCATIONS CAN EXPECT WINDS RANGING FROM 60 GUSTING TO 100 KM/H. THE WINDS WILL CONTINUE MOST THE DAY AND DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING AS THE LOW MOVES INTO SASKATCHEWAN AND A COLD FRONT MOVES IN FROM THE NORTH.

PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST PUBLIC FORECASTS FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

Man I should've gone to Melbourne.

Pics and smudges

I finally got the camera last week after holding back from buying it for a month. In the end I decided just to get it before the Christmas shopping frenzy started and it'd take forever to ship the camera.



"The Box"
Random shot of the 17-85mm's box.


"Self Portrait?"
Applied Noise Ninja on Bibble Pro and that thing worked magic. Shame I didn't find it much earlier.


"Tres Dirty Amigos"
Laziness resulted in dusty smudged crystals. It somehow struck me that every time I was taking pics of my watches the lighting conditions were never close to ideal. I guess it's time to build that poor man's light box after all.


"What Hall Again?"
Sky's overblown, yes. I think I messed up the ISO on this one.


"Almost WTF"
I love the yellow. This one had the minimum amount of post processing on Photoshop.


"It's Not As Cold As It Looks"
Had to use some pp on Bibble Pro and Photoshop. I'm quite pleased with the end result.


"Icy Autumn"
I like the contrast between the white ice and yellow foliage. Alberta sky wasn't really friendly that day, so a good amount of pp was needed to crank up the blue. This was shot in raw so it was very forgiving in terms of adjustment.

Good weather forecast for next week, so more to come!