Perfectly Captured

Frozen Palms

janper44 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:17:06 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I don't know what I did but when I saved the original image after having used Picasa I discovered that the original picture was now this picture. I took this image in the same bus shelter as the ...burger joint in the rain... image except now we are dealing with the cold of winter (the air temperature this day was -23C with a windchill of -33C) rather than just a cold rain. I made use of the auto level effect in CS2 and the picture took on a metallic feel which I appreciate. I must apologize for the small size of this posting but a search for the original and the original of a number of other pictures taken during late 2006 and early 2007 has revealed that I had forgotten to save them to a CD and deleted them from my computer. December 6, 2007

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I left something here... my heart.

janper44 — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:38:57 -0600

by: janper44

Description: This image was taken the first time that I visited San Francisco ever so many years ago and I fell in love with the city and I remember sitting there until finally the whole city went completely dark and there was only the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge itself and the headlights of the cars. And for many years after that I had San Francisco as a destination and I'll always have San Francisco and the wonderful memories of the weeks that I spent there wandering the streets and seeing the sights and the people of the city. In PS in channel mixer in the green output channel I set red, green, blue to 0%, then in channel mixer in the red output channel I set red to 50% and green and blue to 0%. I then heightened contrast to +30 and finally I used equalize with opacity set at 100% and the mode set to luminosity. One could further adjust in the red channel and have just a blue image but I like the contrast between the blue and purple in the posted image. Kodachrome 64 November 11, 1977

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Serpentine Fence at The Forks

janper44 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:34:20 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I find the coloring of the Manitoba Children's Museum and the fencing that surrounds it quite appealing. I particularly like the flow of the fence which works to lead the eyes of the viewer through the image. The buildings on the right were formerly part of the Canadian National Terminal and are now market and museum. The steel armatures seen in the distance form a circle around the Oodean Celebration Circle (Oodena, Cree for centre of the city, features ethereal sculptures, a sundial, interpretive signage, a naked eye observatory and a ceremonial fire pit, making it a desirable venue for Aboriginal and cultural celebrations). The gaps between the monoliths align with solstice and equinox sunrises and sunsets. Steel armatures mounted on the monoliths define precise sightlines for visitors to view specific stars. In CS2 I used shadow highlight and levels. Picture taken January 20, 2006 (with an air temperature of -14C).

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Sunset over the Great Salt Lake

janper44 — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:38:27 -0600

by: janper44

Description: Posted for Sunday Theme this week. Some time in the late 1970s I was driving west from Salt Lake City on the way to San Francisco when I stopped to look at the Saltair Resort (I would have loved to have gotten closer but that year the structure was flooded). Overhead there were gulls wheeling around and then I looked to the north and there was this rather impressive looking sunset sky over Antelope Island. Always remember that drive from Salt Lake City through to the coast. Kodachrome 64 1978

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Abstractive Drills

janper44 — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:26:12 -0600

by: janper44

Description: After seeing the picture I wish now that I could have gotten more than one photograph of the load being carried on the flatbed semi but I was on foot and the truck was only stopped momentarily at the traffic light. In CS3 I used the shadow/highlight effect (50,5,20) and Paint Shop Pro 9 (snake skin texturing set to default). September 15, 2009

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Two Pathways

janper44 — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:21:34 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I just find this image a metaphor for the choices that one makes in life. One path leads to the right and perhaps success while the going down the path to the left leads one down the road of self-destruction. I was just sitting and looking at this image with the music of Alison Krauss and Union Station playing in the background when I heard the words of their song Two Highways. Two highways lay before me,which one will I choose Down one lane I�d find happiness and down the other I would lose... In PS used brush strokes (dark strokes balance 5, black 3, white 2), cropped the image and created border and frame. July 10, 2003 Kodachrome 64

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Lines and Light

janper44 — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:16:35 -0600

by: janper44

Description: Posting for the theme of lines and light. The Esplanade Riel Bridge in downtown Winnipeg is a favourite subject matter and I liked the result of the early morning sunlight highlighting the support wires of the central spire of the bridge. In CS3 I used the shadow/highlight effect followed up with Virtual Photographer (art class effect faded to 80% in the normal mode). August 6, 2010

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Driving through Southern Alberta

janper44 — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:14:55 -0600

by: janper44

Description: Taken in southern Alberta on a warm day in November 1996 along Highway 3 west of Pincher Creek when the weather was just right for driving and there were just not enough places to stop to soak in both the warmth of the day and the grandeur of the location. Crossed the border into British Columbia and it started raining and it rained all the way to Vancouver. Paint Shop Pro one step photo fix salt n pepper (21,2) Kodachrome 64

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Viewing Avro

janper44 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:15:19 -0600

by: janper44

Description: Mynarski Memorial Avro Lancaster Bomber This Avro Lancaster one of only two in the world still flying was in Winnipeg at the Western Canada Aviation Museum for three days in August 2009. According to the information officer approximately 7000 Lancasters were built but today there are only 2 still flying... this one and one in the United Kingdom. There was a three hour waiting period to get inside the Lancaster. I don't think that the people looking after the Lancaster being in Winnipeg expected the turnout that they got. The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, Ontario has dedicated its Mynarski Memorial Lancaster to the memory of Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski, VC, of 419 (Moose) Squadron, 6 (RCAF) Group. Mynarski won 6 Group's only Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth's highest award for gallantry in battle. On the night of 12/13 June 1944, his Lancaster X was shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter. As the bomber plunged earthwards, Mynarski, his flying clothing afire, tried in vain to free his trapped rear gunner from the jammed rear turret. Miraculously, the gunner lived to relate the story of Mynarski's bravery. Unfortunately, Mynarski died from his severe burns. This picture was taken on August 4, 2009. This past week (August 2010) the Avro was back again in Winnipeg as part of its annual tour of North American locations. In CS3 shadow/highlight (40,5,10). August 4, 2009

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My Favourite Historical Building

janper44 — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:15:05 -0600

by: janper44

Description: This was Asile Ritchot, an orphanage founded and operated from 1904 to 1948 by the Soeurs de Misericorde, the Sisters of Mercy, to house the orphaned infants of poor families and unwed mothers. When the Province of Manitoba took over the care of orphans in 1948, Asile Ritchot closed its doors, reopening in 1954 as an Oblate Seminary. The Oblates vacated this seminary in approximately 1970 and the X-Kalay Foundation took over the complex shortly thereafter. The X-Kalay Foundation evolved through the Saint Norbert Foundation to its present name of the Behavioural Health Foundation. The Behavioural Health Foundation provides long term residential addictions treatment programming for men, women, teens and family units experiencing a variety of addiction problems and co-occurring mental health concerns. For me the connection with the Foundation ran from the day it first opened in September 1971 until I retired in September 1997. I lived here... I worked here... I was even married here... for a quarter of a century it was my life and through those years and much more nowadays it has become a photographic subject for me. This photograph was taken somewhere between 1974 and 1984 (I can tell that because I can see behind the red car on the left my Challenger that I owned between '74 and '84. I was using the chrome air filter of Boyd Barber's bike (the fellow in the background) to capture the Foundation as it looked before a year long renovation in 1985-1986. CS3 shadow/highlight (50,0,20) Kodachrome 64

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Balloons on the Rise

janper44 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:30:07 -0600

by: janper44

Description: The posted image is of two hot air balloons that were just rising into the sky over Winnipeg. I had been trying to get a photograph of a building on fire when I noticed the balloons and I took this picture... the smoke in the background is from the industrial building fire on the other side of the river from where the hot air balloons were rising. Shot from the 25th floor of my apartment block angled through my living room window with the hot air balloons about 1 mile to the northeast of my shooting location. In CS2 I used the shadow/highlight effect (50,0,0) and auto level. f5.6 1/320 300mm July 20, 2006

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!!!! Sunset

janper44 — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:32:58 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I think one of the best locations that I ever got to shoot images from what was the roof of the building where I used to work. Excellent for both sunrise and sunset shots as well as everything in between and simply being up three floors was like being in another world with hardly any sound breaking the silence one would feel up there. I liked this sunset shot with the inclusion of the contrail and the setting sun working to create the visual illusion of an exclamation point at the end of day... very emphatic feel. CS3 shadow/highlight (50,20,10) early 1990s Kodachrome 64

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May Sunset 003

janper44 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:50:43 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I was waiting to shoot some fireworks over Canwest Global ballpark in Winnipeg on a Friday night in May when I thought I would try my new tripod for a series of shots of the setting sun. After foolishly losing a tripod I invested in a new one and I just thought I would try for the sun (hand held I usually get a slight halo at the best). I like the darkened skyline and the dark clouds framing the sun. This is the third of five taken on May 18th with the 4th posted on May 24th. In the first two images the sun was nearly white while in the last image there was a reflection of the sun on the ground so 3 and 4 were the best of the series in my mind. Virtual Photographer new gradient CS3 warming filter(85) D90 f5.6 1/500 300mm May 18, 2010

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Down by the River

janper44 — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:06:25 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I was just going through some older pictures when I came across this image and the reflective quality of the Red River and the coloring of the sky caught my eye. When I used to work I would often go out for a walk along a river dike that ran along the Red River and ended at this particular point where I took this picture. I used to find that a walk along the river really was a restful experience and went well to work out the kinks that developed at work. If one followed the river in this image they would come to the site where I shot "memory piece " in my gallery. I used PhotoImpact (auto level, auto adjust and oil paint effect with stroke detail set at 2 and level set at 22). November 1996 Kodachrome 64

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Cascading Carts

janper44 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:13:42 -0600

by: janper44

Description: Just me and my camera waiting for the Safeway store to open at the time and I thought I would try a shot of the lines of shopping carts. Only made use of the flood effect from Flaming Pear. I just liked the cascading feel of the shopping carts and was probably as good as anything else I would get from photographing shopping carts. f4.5 1/125.9 8.9mm September 5, 2004

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Outward Bound

janper44 — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:17:24 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I created a series of blue images with the filtered nature of the original images being worked in PS (channel mixer using the blue output channel with blue set at +100, red set at +114 and green set at +58) and then the completed imaged was cropped using the auto crop tool in PhotoImpact. I had originally tried cropping out the over exposed area leaving just a sliver of sky or cloning in adjacent sky but I didn't like either of the results and felt that the inclusion of the over exposed area was the way to go since I imagined that area as a fish and that fit right in with the watery setting. This image was taken at Prospect Point in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. just to the left of the south approaches of the Lions Gate Bridge looking west towards Vancouver Island. This picture hung for many years in my work office and was a constant reminder of my home town... Vancouver. November 15, 1996 Kodachrome 64

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Foggy Morning - green version

janper44 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:17:01 -0600

by: janper44

Description: It was suggested that I post the mentioned green version of the foggy morning image taken in northern Minnesota. Here it is... this image is closer to what the original slide looked like... and for me it has more of a moody feel. Excuse the small size.

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Foggy Morning

janper44 — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:18:03 -0600

by: janper44

Description: This shot was taken on a foggy blue morning east of International Falls, Minnesota along Highway 11 with the fog bank seemingly merging the sky into the water. I included the wharf to show that man's presence was even here in this almost totally blue universe of nature. I have spent many days just wandering around International Falls and environs and I have never been disappointed in terms of vistas to film and roads to walk. In CS3 I used the shadow/highlight effect (30,10,20) and levels (white auto faded to .65 normal). Cropped to 3/4 of original. Kodachrome 64 Taken in early 1990s.

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Pagoda in King's Park

janper44 — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:01:47 -0600

by: janper44

Description: King's Park used to be a retreat for me during my work life... nearly every day I would find my way here and unwind with a walk or just sitting in the sun. I thought I would just re-visit the Park and see if I could catch some of that feeling with my camera. In CS2 I made use of the shadow/highlight effect (25,0,0). I also tried a setting of the shadow/highlight effect (35,15,0) but I prefer the lighter version... perhaps tomorrow I will favour the darker one. f9 1/320 18mm June 6, 2006

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Minor Moment in the Window of Life

janper44 — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:36:43 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I was standing inside the Farmers Market on Granville Island in Vancouver, B.C. in November 1996 when I took this shot of a small moment in life. What struck me was that in the previous two years on coming to this locale in November I had met the same 3 participants in their continual little dance of life and I thought it was worth a shot. In PS I used the equalize tool, cropped the image and created the border. This image was taken through a glass window hence the slight reflection in the upper left of the image. I have always cherished this image from the little moment in the foreground to the memories of walking across Burrard Street Bridge when I was a teenager living in Vancouver. Canon EOS 650 Kodachrome 64 Canon 50mm November 15, 1996

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We Can't Keep on Meeting in this Way

janper44 — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:13:09 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I took the original with a Canon and made a 11x14 print. Not having a scanner I took a picture of the print with my Coolpix 775. It turned out pretty good except for the hazing behind the cat's back. Then I cropped the original image, used auto level (faded to 60%, and saturated red to +10 and yellow to +20) in PS. I think the interesting shot is the one I missed in this sequence of events when the cat took note of the pig and jumped straight into the air surprising both myself and the pig. The pig and the cat ran off in different directions and I forgot to take a shot... ah life's missed opportunities. I still cannot understand why I didn't save the slide for this picture... dumb. August 11, 1985 Kodachrome 64

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Step thru these Doors...

janper44 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:04:31 -0600

by: janper44

Description: This site is located one block over from I live. I can see the structure from my apartment window. When you step through these gates you step into what remains of the very beginning of Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the beginning there was Fort Rouge built by La Verendrye in 1738 but because of frequent springtime flooding the location was moved to higher ground with Upper Fort Garry being constructed in 1835 by the Hudson's Bay Company. I quote from a recent article that appeared in the Winnipeg Sun concerning the refurbishing of the site. "It was home to governors and it was the first home of the Manitoba government. This isn't just some old department store where your grandfather used to work. This is a real artifact. And we allow dogs to urinate on it. Anything less than fully refurbishing the gate, cleaning up the site and fencing it off for security reasons would be a disgrace. This has thing has to be saved." The city has budgeted funds to refurbish the gate. The next step is to decide whether to rebuild parts of it and expand it onto adjoining land. As the person who wrote the article said: "We do a better job protecting our park benches." Now it is 2010 and this summer work is beginning to use the remaining wall of Upper Fort Garry as the foundation for the renovation of the existing fort and to bring the first step on the road to the city of Winnipeg back to life. Of course in the end no matter which way you cut it... the historic roots of Winnipeg are pretty small potatoes in comparison to other historic structures and locations I've seen at PC over the past months. Picture taken November 19, 2002 Upper Fort Garry

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Hands of My Father

janper44 — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:28:43 -0600

by: janper44

Description: My brother told me something about our father that I had not thought very much about in my life. Our father had the ability to do anything with his hands. He was a blacksmith by trade but he could work with anything but in the time I knew my father I never placed much value on that ability... what can I say I was just a teenager with a bad attitude. My father passed away 28 years ago while I left home 37 years ago and I never really knew him. I lived in Vancouver B.C. with my mother and my Dad worked in small logging camps along the B.C. coast for six months at a time so until he retired I might see him twice a year for a couple of weeks. This picture was taken with an old Kodak box camera nearly 60 years ago and I took a digital shot of the original snapshot using the macro setting on my Nikon CP775. It's not the greatest picture in the world but I just like the image of my father's hands holding me as a little boy. It is really a shame that memories like this vanish from our memory so I say thank god for cameras and photographers. Port Hardy, B.C. CP775

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Fight or Flight....

janper44 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:04:51 -0600

by: janper44

Description: Well this started out as play between the offspring of two pairs of geese playing together until one of the adults thought they would chase off one of the offspring of the other pair of geese. Then one of the parents of the goslings being chased started going after the adult and then chaos broke out. These are the first goslings that I've seen this Spring. Normally by this time of the year this area at the Forks is swarming with ducks and geese and their offspring. I think the lack of ducks and geese is the result of the local rivers being in flood stage since the snow melt and runoff and the heavy rainfall that has been occurring over the last couple of weeks. Probably difficult to maintain a nesting area and the ducks and the geese have gone elsewhere to have their families. Not really animals at play but I just couldn't resist posting this photograph. June 2, 2010

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After the rain on Highway 2

janper44 — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:18:32 -0600

by: janper44

Description: Took this shot in northwestern Montana along Highway 2 just after a rainstorm. I never did find out the name of the lake. I was on a drive along Highway 2 from North Dakota to Vancouver, B.C. just outside of Libby, Montana and I had stopped for a moment as a rainstorm swept through the area. I liked the combination of the reflective quality of the lake and the quality of the clouds. This is not the version of the picture that I had wanted to post but I could not recall the effects that I had used to create a moonlit feel in a picture (I create various images but then I forget to write down the steps with some of the pictures I make). The picture works well in a b&w format as well. In CS3 I used to the shadow/highlight function (40,20,20) to bring out more detailing. Kodachrome 64 Taken November 1996

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Oriental Poppy

janper44 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:24:03 -0600

by: janper44

Description: The Oriental Poppy bud was shot at the English Garden at Assiniboine Park. In CS3 I used the shadow/highlight function (40,10,20). f4.5 1/640 60mm July 7, 2008

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PS'd Sunset

janper44 — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:29:35 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I thought the sunset colors of this image taken August 14 2002 with my Nikon CP 775 might well suit the theme for the week. In CS3 I used levels to adjust for the colors of the sunset. I have the feeling that the vivid nature of the colors in this sunset photograph were the result of the forest fires that were burning in Western Canada at the time. f4.9 1/112.6

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May Sunset 004

janper44 — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:04:44 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I like this particular sunset photograph because I did nothing to it except add a border. It was the 4th in a series of 5 shots I took on May 18th from my apartment window (I spaced each shot 2 minutes apart). I liked the color of the sky and the setting sun and using a tripod brought more clarity to the picture than simply shooting hand held which I usually do.

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Hot Cars in the Summertime

janper44 — Sat, 22 May 2010 19:18:26 -0600

by: janper44

Description: "Typically Summer" is the theme for the week and when I think of summer I think of cars... not cars but vintage cars and so I posted a picture from a time when I used to be into the car and cruising scene in Winnipeg and I happened to stop at an impromptu car show to take some pictures. I just liked the varying looks on the faces of the people grouped around this particular car from the woman through the indifferent man to the curious nature of the kids. I guess today people would take a car like this from show to show by trailer but back in the late 1970s (I had thought 1983 but when I saw a picture of the two kids I knew this had to be in the middle to late 1970s) when I took this picture people drove from show to show and I saw this car parked near where I worked covered with dust and dirt having come all the way from Texas. Kodachrome 64 From slide put on CD.

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Baikal, Siberian Tiger

janper44 — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:12:29 -0600

by: janper44

Description: Every young man needs to move out of his parents� house and sow some wild oats. Baikal the tiger was no different. Baikal was a 12-year old Siberian tiger who had lived at the Cherry Brook Zoo in Saint John, New Brunswick for 10 years with his 20-year old mother, Pam. Baikal was sent to the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg in June 2009. Baikal was brought to the zoo as a breeding tiger after his predecessor found more interest in sleeping and three square meals a day than female companionship. In CS3 I used the shadow/highlight function (40,5,20) and levels (white auto). f4.5 1/640 130mm Taken July 6, 2009.

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Summer Heat

janper44 — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:20:10 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I thought this might be an appropriate image for this week's theme. This image was taken on Hwy 22 north of Dickinson, North Dakota during the summer of 1996. In PS I used the auto level tool... fooled around with the fade and then just left the image as it came out initially using the auto level. I was just struck by the contrast between the greenish hue of the landscape and the muted blue of of the sky. Just seemed to capture in my mind a hot summer's day and the wide open spaces of the Dakotas. Kodachrome 64 shot June 15, 1996.

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Breakfast with the Lemurs

janper44 — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:08:23 -0600

by: janper44

Description: The Ring Tailed Lemurs were enjoying their breakfast when I showed up at the Assiniboine Park Zoo just after its 9 AM opening. The f4.5 setting usually overcomes the fencing but there is still a hint of that fencing with this picture. The f4.5 setting works best with those creatures that stand still for a few moments but not so well with the more active creatures like the Lemurs. Those lemurs really seemed to be enjoying themselves and I just found this to be a fun image capturing a moment in their day to day life at the Zoo. f4..5 1/640 112mm

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Sunset Glow Virginia, Minnesota

janper44 — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:25:57 -0600

by: janper44

Description: Another one of the images that I took heavily filtered and have tried to bring back to life. I stand to be corrected in the location of this image. I say it is taken from a motel in Virginia, Minnesota but knowing my lack of detailing on shots this could have been shot elsewhere in Minnesota. In PS I used equalize with opacity set to .51 and mode set to color dodge. I then applied Neat Image to smooth out the roughness of the image. Every time I look at this image I am reminded for some reason of the movie The War of the Worlds.

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A Squabble most Fowl

janper44 — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:09:00 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I was down at the Forks trying to find some ducklings or goslings to photograph when this squabble fell right into where I happened to be pointing the camera. A brief fight and then everything was quiet once again. Used levels in CS3. f6.3 1/640 155mm Taken May 21, 2008.

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Purely Accidental

janper44 — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:18:46 -0600

by: janper44

Description: Somewhere in 1997 I sold two of my cameras (Pentax and Nikon) and I gave away my Canon EOS 650 and then I came to my senses and got the Canon back and found out someone had gotten good deals on my Pentax and Nikon at the pawnshop where I had taken them. And then I put away the Canon and left it in a cupboard for 5 years and then one day I got the itch to start taking photographs once again. This is an image that resulted from having left my Kodachrome 64 slide film in my Canon EOS 650 for approximately five years. I thought the images would have faded completely but I was quite surprised by some of the images that were on the developed roll. Added the bordering from Paint Shop Pro... reminds me of the days of taking film. The photograph was taken under the historic Forks Walking Bridge which is part of the Trans Canada Trail with the view east across the Red River to Saint Boniface.

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Geese

janper44 — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:08:34 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I just liked this image with the two geese taking off with the other goose chasing them... at least that is how I would take the pose of the solitary goose on the right edge. The goose on the right had been perched on a bridge abutment when one of the geese taking off had taken a charge at him and then that goose came down with its wings spread and away the other two geese went. f8 1/200 66mm April 1, 2010

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Vancouver Skyline from Coal Harbour

janper44 — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:46:15 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I just find it strange that after 30+years of living on the Canadian Prairies the West Coast still has a strong pull emotionally on me. I thought I would pull out an image from the past when I was in Vancouver, driving around Stanley Park and shooting some images of the Vancouver skyline. Captures the sense of the city for me with the skyline, the sailboats at anchor, and, of course, the geese in the foreground. When the days of winter on the Canadian Prairies seem to stretch on forever one just to take something like this to remember that there really is another side to Canada and it isn't just an endless vista of sun covered locales with everyone longing to be in south Florida sending postcards back home. I did not really keep very accurate records of the images taken at the time and so I cannot tell if I used a filter on this image, or not but I rather strongly feel since I was using Cokin filters to excess at the time I probably did use one. Taken November 15, 1996. Kodachrome 64

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On Sunny Good Street

janper44 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:28:08 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I was just walking along Good Street on a sunny Sunday morning when I happened upon this cat looking out the window and warily watching me as I walked by. I had time for just one photograph and then cat disappeared into the interior darkness. I really liked the quality of the eyes of the cat and they sort of transfixed me as I looked at the image on my computer screen. In CS2 I made use of the shadow/highlight function (40,15). Taken September 16, 2007. f4.5 1/85 52mm

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Trinidad, California

janper44 — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:14:17 -0600

by: janper44

Description: My favourite view? It doesn't look like anything very striking and in reality it is just to the north of a parking lot for a restaurant in Trinidad, California but for years this picture used to hang over my desk at work and either when the weather outside would turn to a Manitoba winter with cold and snow and wind or when I felt rather down after a day of work I would look at this picture and it would bring me back to a time of being in Trinidad, California walking the beaches or taking a hike through the woods surrounding the town or having a quiet dinner in a restaurant on the pier. I went back some time in the 1990s to get an updated version of the picture and the boat was gone and the plants were gone and I never took an updated picture. The original picture was taken around 1980. In CS2 I used the shadow/highlight function (50,5,20) followed up by levels (white auto). This image was taken just to the east of the picture Golden Day in Trinidad in my gallery. Kodachrome 64

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Window Washer

janper44 — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:59:11 -0600

by: janper44

Description: On August 6, 2008 I was sitting at my computer when I heard something slapping against my window and looking out saw the ropes and then the window washer along the windows on the 25th floor from the elevator towards my apartment. The resulting photograph was taken at an angle through my living room window (there is no balcony on my floor and no windows that open towards the window washer) and I just found the image interesting and a little dangerous to say the least with the window washer sitting in that little wooden chair working his way up and down the building. In the background one can see a large white tent. It was part of an archaeological dig for artifacts previous to the start of construction on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights which is slated to open in 2012. This is the first national museum in Canada to be built in Western Canada. http://www.humanrightsmuseum.ca/

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Don Starkell

janper44 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:08:09 -0600

by: janper44

Description: This is not the best image in the word (the last shot on a roll of Kodak 400) and all I had was my Canon EOS 650 with no extra film. This is a picture of a Don Starkell who kayaks the Red River and Assiniboine River through most of the year when the rivers are free of ice. Through various trips and adventures, Don Starkell built a 64-year legacy as one of North America's most respected canoeists and kayakers, telling of his adventures in a pair of books. In Paddle to the Amazon, Starkell and his son Dana faced a 23-month, 20,000-kilometre canoe journey from Winnipeg to the Amazon in the 1980s -- an adventure that earned the duo a Guinness record for the longest canoe trip ever. Contrasting that trek was Paddle to the Arctic, an account of a solo trip covering the Northwest Passage by kayak. Starkell lost portions of his fingers and a few toes to frostbite during that 1990 expedition. At the age of 77, Don Starkell may have paddled farther than any other human being has ever paddled. Back in August 2009 he was closing in on a new milestone -- paddling 120,226 kilometres, a distance equal to three times the circumference of the Earth -- Starkell believed he was the rightful holder of the world record for the most kilometres paddled by a human being over the course of a lifetime. In 2009, his routine on paddling days involved waking up at 2:45 a.m., leaving his East Kildonan home and hitting the water by 4 a.m. in order to paddle 22 kilometres along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. In late March 2010 he was injured quite seriously in a fire in his home in the north end. f8.5 1/350 105mm

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View from the Point

janper44 — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:13:19 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I was taking a walk here today and I thought I would like to post a picture that would show this view to its best advantage... rather than the barren look that I found on this Spring day. This photograph looks south along the Red River from the Point Douglas area towards the downtown area of Winnipeg. The posted view was taken August 23, 2008 and in CS3 I used the shadow/highlight function (50,10,40). The sculpture is titled The Point by Jordan Van Sewell. Nicknamed �The Point,� North Point Douglas is defined by a bend in the Red River in the heart of Winnipeg. Because the Canadian Pacific Railway�s passenger terminal was located in the area, North Point Douglas became the drop-off point for early immigrants to Winnipeg. In the 1880s, North Point Douglas was home to many wealthy businessmen and entrepreneurs, but by the turn of century, it became more industrialized due to its proximity to the railroad. Prosperity faded as residents moved to newer North End neighbourhoods, leaving behind mostly new immigrants and poorly-paid factory workers. Today, North Point Douglas is home to many Aboriginal people; nearly 40 per cent of North Point Douglas residents identify as M�tis or Aboriginal, compared with just ten per cent in the whole of Winnipeg (2006 census shows Winnipeg with a population of 671,274). D70s f10 1/400 25mm

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One game before we go??

janper44 — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:57:46 -0600

by: janper44

Description: On my way from here to there along I80 in eastern Nevada back in the day (pre-1983). Stopped in a little town called Oasis off the freeway that seemed to consist of one building... gas station, restaurant, pool hall, what have you. It would have been nice to have taken this image with a flash but I didn't have the flash unit available and I just had time for one photograph before I left. In PS I used auto level while in Virtual Photographer I made use of the classic mode in bw. Maybe just time for one game before we go? No, she said and on we drove. You will have to excuse the small size of this posting. I tried several times to increase the size of the image working from the original but I could not get any picture significantly larger than this image while maintaining the toning of the posted picture. Kodachrome 64 Taken August 15, 1982

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Dancing in the Dark

janper44 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:03:50 -0600

by: janper44

Description: At 6:07 in the afternoon on March 2, 2005 the sun finally made its return to shining in my north facing apartment window. Since October of 2004 the sun has not been shining in my apartment window and so for a brief minute it shone palely on my apartment wall and then it was gone but I knew it was going to be returning each and every day until the October of 2005. I just wanted to do something with that brief bolt of light shining through the blinds on my living room window. The original image was a single sunbeam shining through the blinds on my living room window onto to an adjacent wall. From Flaming Pear I used the chromasolarize effect, sphere warp A function, swerve effect, crop, and flood effect. In the words of Bruce Springsteen "...we're just dancing in the dark..." Now that brief bolt of light dances in the darkness. Nikon CP5700 f2.8 1/60 8.9mm

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memory piece

janper44 — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:11:58 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I worked for 26+ years at a location on the outskirts of Winnipeg called Saint Norbert and during many a day when the stress of the job got to me I would be found walking down this levee and as I reached about this point the surrounding trees would block out all the sound from the traffic and the people and there was a view straight down the dike and across the Red River to the large house on the distant shore. This image was taken during the fall of the year and it was worked with the paint effect available in PhotoImpact.

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Runners and the CN train

janper44 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:13:09 -0600

by: janper44

Description: This was a photograph that I had been hoping for over a few years of taking pictures during the running of Manitoba Marathon. I had started walking back from the 19 mile post at the Marathon... first to take pictures of the leaders (at mile 19 two guys were running shoulder to shoulder and at the end of the marathon there was only 14 seconds between first and second place at just over 2 hours and 27 minutes) and then to find various locations along the route to take pictures of the various runners. I just made it to the Norwood Bridge with the racers coming up the slope of the bridge when the CN train came across the background bridge and still further back was the apartment block where I live... not the best picture I took that day but the picture that I liked the most because it had action, trains with my apartment block anchoring the image. In CS3 I used the shadow highlight function (50,5,20).

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The Carnival

janper44 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:29:39 -0600

by: janper44

Description: It was near summer and everyone wanted to go to the carnival. I took this picture from my 25th floor apartment window and then in PS I used auto level (opacity 100, mode normal) and in Virtual Photographer I made use of ambience (opacity 100, mode normal). A lot of background noise but I liked the painterly like feel of the end composition. f4.2 1/44.8 142.4mm

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Blue View

janper44 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I had to send my D90 in for warranty work after the flash mechanism froze and broke when I was out for a night of shooting the Olympic Flame as it came to Winnipeg on its journey to the Winter Olympics. So I shot some rolls of film and I got this particular picture from my apartment window on January 31, 2010 around 2 in the afternoon when the temperature outside was -25C. It was so cold that everything seemed to be freezing in place... literally turning blue before my eyes. I did a severe cropping on the picture since a reflection of my blinds showed through along the bottom edge of the picture. In CS3 I used the shadow/highlight function (50,5,20) and in Virtual Photographer I used the classic09 effect.

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boys and their toys

janper44 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:19:19 -0600

by: janper44

Description: I took this picture at the World of Wheels in Winnipeg in 2009. I was trying to get people into the same photograph with the vintage cars and I wasn't succeeding too well... people think they are stepping into my range while I was trying to get them into my range. Finally I got this photograph of the gentleman bending over for a closer view of 1932 Ford... captured the sense of the exhibition for me. Hopefully I'll have better fortunate in a couple of weeks when the World of Wheels returns to Winnipeg. In CS3 I used the shadow/highlight function (50,5,20)and levels (white auto). D70s f3.5 1/30 18mm Taken March 29, 2009.

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...soaring into the blue

janper44 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:14:06 -0700

by: janper44

Description: I was driving south from San Francisco and I stopped to watch this fellow soaring from the cliffs out over the ocean. Such a sensation of freedom especially when one is sitting rooted to the ground. Taken during 1982 south of San Francisco as I drove from Vancouver, B.C. to San Diego. Kodachrome 64 Taken August 15, 1982

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