iconoclast - photos

parliament hdr

daniel — Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:36:08 -0500

Happy Canada Day!

pilot boat

daniel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:21:40 -0500

The pilot boat coming back to port, taken from the breakwater back in 2005.

tilt bridge

daniel — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:10:10 -0500

The tilt-shift lens has been collecting dust lately, so I took it out last weekend for a tour along the gorge waterway. I guess taking a photo of the tilting bridge with a tilt-shift lens is some sort of visual pun, but at the time I was just thinking about using the depth-of-field plane to draw attention along the support columns. When I first got the TSE, the manual focus and manual exposure were annoying, but these days I enjoy it because it helps teach me to have more control over the camera.

rusty pipes

daniel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:56:46 -0500

I thought about posting this photo from 2005 several times, but never got around to it until now. It was taken with my first DSLR, the Canon Rebel, with the kit lens and (I think) +1, +2 and +4 filters attached -- which caused the vignetting. I was (and still am) fascinated by macro photography and I wanted to see what would happen with all three filters attached. The magnification was pretty good, but the image quality wasn't. The 18-55 kit lens has been in a box somewhere ever since I got the 24-70 lens, but I should dig it out one of these days just to use the bizarre second-hand 58mm kaleidoscopic filter that this photo was taken with.

fan tan alley

daniel — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:06:02 -0500

Fan Tan Alley in Chinatown.

mimosa

daniel — Sat, 7 Jun 2008 09:38:04 -0500

At a great wedding last weekend, there were plants on the dinner tables that the couple had grown themselves. As soon as I saw this one I was excited because I used to have a mimosa plant years ago, and I was even happier at the end of the night when they gave all the plants away. The really neat thing about this plant is that the leaves fold up when the plant is disturbed. The leaves also fold up a night -- it's as if the plant is going to sleep. The shot on the left has the leaves expanded and the shot on the right was taken after I touched some leaves to make them fold up.

hard lines

daniel — Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:48:56 -0500

An abstract architecture shot from the archives. I have lots of good recent shots that I've been too busy lately to post; hopefully soon.

leaves

daniel — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:58:22 -0500

tribal machine live 2

daniel — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:47:11 -0500

Tribal Machine live. The blur effect was done by zooming out while taking the photo. Taking photos at concerts without much light is hard, but this effect compensates for that while adding a sense of the energy of the show. The band is working on a new album which should be ready in the next month or so.

okanagan beach 2

daniel — Thu, 8 May 2008 12:54:56 -0500

Though this may appear to be a close-up of the beach on a cartoon planet, this is really a polar panorama of the beach and the peach in Penticton. A QTVR version is below.