Saguenay 2

Here are some additional shots captured on the next day of my visit to the Saguenay fjords. The grass seen in the first picture is actually grass from the river bed uncovered at low tide. The saturation of that photo has been bumped up a bit to create a more colourful picture befitting the sunny day. The little girl statue is actually right next to the river shore and water gets almost to it at high tide; same as the muddy terrain in the third picture, which was revealed only for the low tide. Absolutely fascinating.

Link to deviantArt

Link to deviantArt

Link to deviantArt

Saguenay

I have recently been on a trip to the beautiful fjords on the Saguenay river, so here are some of my prettier photos of the outstanding nature there. It has usually been challenging for me to take nice pictures in cloudy weather, but this time I was able to get it right. I have used ISO100 for all of these shots at around F6.3 - F7.1. It also helped not being in hurry and taking my time to get the right picture. A tripod was used for all of these.

Link to deviantArt

Link to deviantArt

Link to deviantArt

Canadian snowstorm

Global warming has been quite apparent in Canada in the last few years. Winters were shorter and the snow did not stay quite as long as it used to. Whether last week was an extreme for today's standards, or having normal weather once again, the past week's snowstorm was quite a scene to behold.

Link to deviantArt

Link to deviantArt

Link to deviantArt

Autumn colours

Winter in Canada, just like in many other countries, is a very beautiful season. This photograph is captured at a ski resort where I often go during the winter season. In the autumn though, multiple types of trees in that mountain provide for amazing colour combinations and very beautiful landscapes. I can only imagine what this photograph would have looked like if it were captured in a sunny day. In any case, it is still a great shot.

Link to deviantArt

TT sunset

One day, as I was getting off the train after school, I saw a lot of smoke in the sky. I thought that was odd, and indeed a moment later, as I was moving towards the smoke, I realised there was a big fire in the backyard of a house across the street with fire engines buzzing around it. I ran to my home and grabbed the DSLR shooting a couple of photographs from my balcony. Then went down to try to get some close shots. And there it was, a beautiful, modified, sporty Audi TT on the street waiting for me to capture it. What are the odds of all that happening, so that I am at the right moment, at the right place, with my camera in hand  able to capture this unique car.

Link to deviantArt

Link to deviantArt

CatArt

They say one should play with angles in photography, that one should move around and find an interesting perspective when shooting a subject. Well, here is what I came up with when trying to apply this technique. It is my cat, on a glass coffee table. I am shooting from underneath with the 18mm kit lens, which worked perfectly in this close proximity environment. The photo itself does not contain any interesting colours, but by playing with filters, I actually found a combination which worked surprisingly well on this shot and made it in a way very arty. Other than that, I think you would agree that the shot has very good composition.

Link to deviantArt

Wide photography

It is quite nice sometimes, especially for landscape photography, to take a wide-angle photograph. For that you could either use a wide-angle lens, or as in my case take a couple of overlapping photos that can be stitched later using one of many free and paid software programs.

Link to deviantArt