tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-311010982024-03-05T21:55:37.391-05:00The FACzen ImageThe sporadic musings and compelling images of Glenn SpringerGlenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.comBlogger427125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-69096792063508147832020-03-05T18:17:00.000-05:002020-03-05T18:27:29.506-05:00<div style="color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With sadness, we wanted to let everyone know that we lost our father, Glenn Springer yesterday. Many of you know he had been struggling with a recurrence of cancer and he succumbed to it Wednesday at his home in Toronto.</span></span></div>
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<span font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We know Glenn had many close friends from all walks of life who cared deeply for him and admired his wide array of interests. He was, variously, a great outdoorsman, a photographer, a motorcyclist, an entrepreneur, a blogger and all-around early tech adopter, and an educator in many forms and to the benefit of many.</span></div>
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<span font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He really appreciated all of your support through these last difficult few months, as well as the excellent care he received at Princess Margaret and Toronto General Hospitals. We and Glenn’s sister, Barbara Levine, have also appreciated your kind words and generosity.</span></div>
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<span font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We welcome friends and family at a service to be held at Benjamin’s Park Memorial Chapel in Thornhill (2401 Steeles Avenue West, 3 lights west of Dufferin) this Sunday, March 8, at 9:00am. (Note Sunday is the start of daylight savings time). More details <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.paperman.com/funerals/2020-3-9-glenn-springer&source=gmail&ust=1583536208886000&usg=AFQjCNGkitWgiw0H5VEX_yEuInNKBXPKKg" href="https://www.paperman.com/funerals/2020-3-9-glenn-springer" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are planning to send further details about a place to gather in the Toronto area after the service.</span></div>
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<span font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Internment will take place at Adath Israel Section at Baron de Hersh Cemetery in Montreal on Monday, March 9, at 12:00pm.</span></div>
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<span font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Memorial donations can be made to Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, 416-946-6560.</span></div>
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-25838086009641190832019-11-08T13:25:00.000-05:002019-11-08T13:26:27.975-05:00What's going on?<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">To all my friends and readers</span></i></b><br />
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Sometimes life deals you a challenging hand.<br />
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I haven't posted to this blog since July because some medical issues got in the way. Without a lot of detail, I was hospitalized in Newfoundland and ended up with a pacemaker. I got to see the inside of Twillingate, Gander and St. John's hospitals, and was well taken care of. Also some long and uncomfortable rides in ambulances.<br />
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<b>I wish I could say it ended there.</b><br />
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Some symptoms started creeping up on me when I got home at the end of August and now as I write this, it turns out that my cancer has come back with a vengeance. Those who know me personally know that I'm 15 years in after treatment for metastatic thyroid cancer. It has decided to take another kick at me, this time more seriously. And other complications.<br />
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I haven't been able to eat or drink more than a few swallows since the beginning of September. I've lost a bunch of weight, I have zero energy and have basically been housebound (when not admitted to the hospital) for the past couple of weeks. I have some pain from a significant sized tumor.<br />
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I sit here waiting to find out if they will be able to treat me with some targeted chemotherapy which could possibly buy me some extra time. Not a Hell of a lot, if you read between the lines. But there's always hope...<br />
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It was prophetic that I decided to sell my house and move back to Toronto "when I could instead of when I had to". Just in time, it seems.<br />
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It's very hard to get motivated to pick up a camera and in fact I haven't in over two months. I hope I can again and am able to express myself.<br />
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I'll do my best to keep you informed of developments. Thanks in advance for NOT inundating me with messages and phone calls.<br />
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Last time out was mid September in Algonquin with Ron, Rob and a bunch of other RHCC folks.<br />
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<br />Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-22985378039232363852019-07-18T12:43:00.000-04:002019-07-18T12:43:57.296-04:00Newfoundland Journey 2019 — Post #2<b><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Newfoundland Journey 2019 — Post #2</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm on a two-month journey to Newfoundland. Like Last year, my goal here is to post some stories, words and pictures, to document my trek to the Rock. </span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You can click on any picture in the blog to blow it up. This year I'm shooting with my Nikon D800 and the new Nikon Z7, so if there's any quality issue, it's on me not the hardware! Most of the pictures will be available as large format prints at very reasonable cost. <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Contact me</b></a>.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love Newfoundland. I've often said I could live here, all things being equal. Not up here on the Northern Peninsula, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe it's just because of the weather today (5°C, raining, 60kph winds...) but it's chilly here. And as you drive around from Raleigh to St. Anthony's to Goose Cove, you see piles of white snow and not just on North-facing slopes. When I asked Emily (my hostess here) about it, she said they had over 30 feet of snow this winter — that's over 10 meters — and it's not all going to melt. A typical mid-summer day up here is 10-13°C.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The terrain up here is sub-arctic. Actually in places it is more than sub-, it's downright desolate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took these two shots in the Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve (BCER from now on so I don't have to keep typing the name in full!). This is mostly an expanse of gravel/rock interspersed by the odd patch of green arctic vegetation, lichen and the like. A lot of it is endangered and unique to this place, so you are enjoined not to leave the road, lest you drive over some rare species. More on this place to come. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I struggled with the distinction between "Desolate" and "Isolated". Another area is Cape Norman and the towns of Cook's Harbour and North Boat Harbour. Although they're only 10 km apart or so, the one gravel road feels much longer than that because there's NOTHING around you. This single 4 km spur goes only to the Cape Norman Light(house), essential for navigation years ago. The only man-made thing: the power line and the road surface which in spots is indistinguishable from the terrain around it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This image is just outside Cook's Harbour. You're looking East: the land in the distance behind the iceberg is the BCER. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the town itself. Why would anyone live here? Well this was the nexus of the Cod Fishing industry back in the '80s before the shutdown and millions of pounds of cod was processed in the fish plant daily during the season. Now?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the way, the little clump of stubby trees in the foreground is typical in the coastal areas but such copses are far apart and stunted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Isolation is a recurring theme for me in Newfoundland. People choose to live FAR from any neighbours. In this case the owner was probably a successful fisherman but his property is miles from anywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a typical fishing stage and boat, all alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and another one. This one's in Raleigh</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">St. Anthony is the only population centre on the peninsula with about 3500 residents and they actually have a Tim Horton's! And a real grocery store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taken from the Fisherman's Point Lighthouse a couple of km out of town. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are hundreds of species of dwarf flora unique to this area and other arctic vegetation. Local guides can pick them out and Ted, who owns Burnt Cape Cabins, takes people out on his little school bus. The road is Subaru-friendly, I guess if you live there and know it well, school bus friendly too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't go with him because, as I explained, I need several minutes for each photo since I'm doing focus stacking on tripod. I stopped at this spot and was still there when he came back about an hour later. By the way, the 'nippers' or 'skitters' seem to thrive up there. DEET works, somewhat...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are a few images I took. I can't name the plants but at least one of them is rare, endangered. For my photography readers, I shot stacks of 20 images in the Z7 then compiled them in Helicon Focus back in the computer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a crop of the previous shot. It is one of the most endangered species there.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a carnivorous plant, about the size of my pinkie finger. The sticky interior traps wayward bugs. </span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For more plant images, please see my portfolio page: <a href="https://glennspringer.myportfolio.com/newfoundland-2019">https://glennspringer.myportfolio.com/newfoundland-2019</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The reason most people travel to the Northern Peninsula is to visit the Viking settlements at L'Anse aux Meadows. I was very disappointed. It's a government-run historic site, staffed by people in uniform, fancy displays, video shows and powerpoints... I didn't go outside the visitor centre building because (1) it was late, (2) it was far and (3) they admitted there's not much to see. The archeological sites have been excavated, you're looking at mounds and a few artifacts (they admit the major artifacts have been taken away). So you'll see a little triangular piece of rock that they say was a stone knife or arrowhead... not my thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However there's another site called "Norstead" (it has some Danish characters in the word that I won't even try) where they created a living replica Viking settlement, not just some archeological digs. Staffed by people in period costume, it was fascinating and I wish I'd spent more time there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have an interesting <a href="http://www.norstead.com/main.asp?nav=home" target="_blank"><b>website</b></a>, it's worth the visit.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Replica of a fishing boat or sealing boat they would have built after landing in the Snorri. The staff used this one here for several years before it was damaged in a winter storm. They're building another. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are a few more images before I close this chapter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seen off the far end of the BCER. The other side was visible from Cook's Harbour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have to be in the right place at the right time. Hay Cove just before L'Anse aux Meadows. Stacked and digitally painted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the interior, away from the coast, there are more trees, thicker forest. As you drive along, you see garden plots, miles from anywhere, and stacks of firewood. Here's the story:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When they built the roads, the construction crews dug up and turned over fertile soil by the side of the road. Much easier to work than the rocky soil on which the settlements were built, so locals plant their annual vegetable gardens there instead! According to the notes I read, they're fenced to keep the moose out and away from their veggies — as if that's going to help! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />I think the 'scarecrow' is just for fun. Oh, wait. There are actually tons of crows and ravens around.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Homes are primarily heated by firewood. Other fuels are prohibitively expensive and so is electricity, besides these settlements date back over centuries. Every winter, local residents obtain permits to cut wood, and they go in cut and haul their wood out to spots near the highway. Historically, they used horse-drawn sleds to carry the wood (which was uniformly cut to 8-foot lengths). Now of course, they use snowmobiles and chain saws, but they still use the sleds! The wood is stacked and left to dry, some cut to 4' length or to the finished 16-18" length. Everyone knows where their own wood is and I'm pretty sure stealing someone's wood is a capital offence! Over the summer and fall, the now-dry wood is hauled and split and stacked again near peoples' residences. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />You can see the sleigh that is used to haul the wood here. Now hooked up to a snowmobile instead of a horse! Most of the wood in this picture has already been cut to length, but not yet split.<br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Along the roads are endless stands of birch trees, the main type of wood used. Softwoods, like pine, don't provide as much heat, burn faster and produce creosote and other harmful chemicals. The birches don't seem to be as bright white as the ones back home. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow. I know this was too long. Sorry... but I couldn't figure out where to split it and as I wrote, I got carried away. Stay tuned for Part 3 in a little while!</span><br />
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<br />Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-85402749179423744882019-07-10T11:29:00.001-04:002019-07-10T11:29:52.793-04:00Newfoundland 2019 Post #1<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Newfoundland Journey 2019 — Post #1</span></i></b><br />
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<i>I'm on a two-month journey to Newfoundland. Like Last year, my goal here is to post some stories, words and pictures, to document my trek to the Rock. </i></blockquote>
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<i>You can click on any picture in the blog to blow it up. This year I'm shooting with my Nikon D800 and the new Nikon Z7, so if there's any quality issue, it's on me not the hardware! Most of the pictures will be available as large format prints at very reasonable cost. <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Contact me</b></a>.</i></blockquote>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quebec:</span></i></b><br />
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Zero photos (so far). I'm in Montmagny, QC, my targeted first night stop. Long day — about 10 hours drive. Somewhere around Brockville, the "Check Engine" light came on and disabled the cruise control. I've been having some issues, Subaru can't figure out what's going on. Nothing's open (Canada Day) so I figured tomorrow I'd find a dealer in New Brunswick and get it reset but like magic, when I got back in the car after a pee-break (TMI, I know!) around Quebec City, it reset itself. Here's hoping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I keep telling myself I have to speak with more people. Here's what happened today. Driving into Montmagny, I hit a closed road, shut down for Canada Day celebrations. I speak some French but not at the speed the person directing traffic was speaking: and the accent! Pure <i>joual</i> (oxymoron!) too. A guy walked over and gave me directions in passable English. In the course of the conversation, I learned that he picked up English because he's a motorcycle collector and has to do deals in English, especially in the US! The pride and joy of his collection is a mint 1926 Indian.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I told him I'm an ex-motorcyclist/instructor. In passing I said I remember meeting a collector somewhere North of Kingston years ago and had a tour of his 'museum'. So this guy said, "Oh, Barry Brown. I saw him last week. His collection's grown, he has a bike dating back over 100 years that he's selling for $200,000."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We used to call that "Zen-Spotting". Meeting someone you know or one degree of separation away in a totally remote place. The Zen reference dates back to running into a fellow Zen Rider member in the middle of nowhere, hundreds of miles from home!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every time I make the effort to speak with someone, a story results. There's a message here...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are supposed to be fireworks tonight down at the marina. If I can stay awake, I'll try to get down there for some pictures. Stay tuned...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were in fact some fireworks, plus a local band and food and beer and picnic... I took a few shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Skipping ahead a couple of days, mostly spent driving. I overnighted in Moncton, NB then headed for Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. I spent the night at a B&B in Ingonish Beach (lousy bed, too high, too soft. But that's just me. BTW the NS Tourism people are the best: stop at a roadside info centre and they'll find you a place to stay!) then I drove the Cabot Trail loop, including a side trip up to Meat Cove. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's been a long time since I did this loop, worth every moment. If you can't make Newfoundland, at least go here. If you're on motorcycle, even better! And hint, drive the trail counter-clockwise, you see the scenery much better that way. A few highlight shots:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lobster fishermen in Ingonish Harbour preparing the boat and the bait to go out. They leave around 3am, tend their traps and get back around 10 the next morning. They also pointed me at the best local restaurant in the area. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Up around Bay St. Lawrence, this mail carrier told me he looked down to see where the next piece of mail was supposed to be delivered, then looked up and... nobody hurt, car was right on its side before he righted it, his buddy George was on his way with a truck to haul him out. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The road to Meat Cove is mostly dirt, but they pave the steep sections, for winter I guess. This is a superbly motorcycle friendly section and you can see Cape Breton's awesome scenery. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got to North Sydney a little early, had a bite to eat, then headed for the ferry terminal. If you're going to take the ferry, here are a few insights:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However I was still too early so found myself at the front of the third line which would have put me down there. A friendly attendant let me move to a holding area (with people who had pets in their cars, so they wanted to help them disembark early). It was frustrating sitting and waiting there because you end up being the last cars loaded. However they put us on Deck 3 amid the transport trucks and we ended up being the first off the boat! Ask nicely...</span></blockquote>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gas is 20¢ cheaper in NS than in NL. Fill up before you board. And the ONLY gas on the TCan is 28km up the road, and they don't open until 8am. So much for being first off the boat!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My first planned stop was Codroy Provincial Park beach where I knew there were endangered Piping Plovers, I'd shot them in previous years and if you look in the dictionary under "cute" there's pictures of plover chicks! I was too early for chicks, though, I think, because I saw a bird still nesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I saw and reported a banded bird and got an email answer back from Research Canada a few days later. Remember Piping Plovers are an endangered species.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Glenn – thanks!
White flag AJ was marked as a chick in S NS (Louis Head), and seen that fall in NB and FL Atlantic; not seen last summer (often they don’t nest as yearlings so we may not see them); seen spring 2019 in GA, and has spent the summer at Codroy Valley Prov Park, although I don’t know if she has actually nested.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Arjuna and Jacqui were there, just winding up their trip. They were flying out of St. John's in a few days and had to get under way. We had a quick brekkie, then I headed for Stephenville where I was spending the night. Pretty tired from lack of sleep on the ferry, I took a quick afternoon nap then headed out to my next planned spot, Cape St. George on the Port au Port peninsula.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tim Horton's first, of course. Just an observation: it seems everywhere you go, your nostrils are assailed these days with the smell of burning oregano. Oh, wait, it isn't oregano... just hoping these folks don't hop in their car and drive high. I used that incident as the basis for a short story I started yesterday (or maybe chapter 1 of a novel... we'll see).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the way there, I stopped at Hidden Falls. We'd been there before but couldn't see the falls. Um, I parked, got out of the car and there, straight ahead of me... Too far for a good photo but I gave it a shot with the ND filter on the 200mm lens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Cape St. George</b></i> was outstanding. Not the town, BTW: the campground right on the point. I had been hoping for a sunset and wasn't disappointed. Not only were there lots of birds flying around, but I spent quite some technical time putting together some hi-tech shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next morning, I headed up the coast towards Port au Choix, where I spent two nights en route to the North end of the Western Peninsula. On the way, I stopped at the Arches park, where I found this interesting crow and later, along the route, this Common Eider duck. Common for some, new on my lifer list!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On The Big Bang Theory, Penny says to Howard, "<b>...you know a lot of doctors</b>".</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You should see my address book. As I get older and with accumulating medical issues...<br />That said, I have several friends and relatives who are entitled to that honorific too. They can be distinguished by the fact that I call them by their first names (Dr. Ron or just Steve or Gary). I'm on first name terms with most of them but I refer to the medical ones by their full names or functions (my radiation oncologist...).</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gone are the days when the only doctors you knew were your GP and your dentist.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the same Loon I posted in the last blog. This time I shot it with the D800 instead of the Z7 — same lens, the 200-400 at roughly the same settings — to show the nesting box and to try to compare quality between the camera bodies. I can't see a ton of difference but the Z has the edge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If I'm patient and the timing is right, I'm hoping to see some activity when the eggs hatch and the chicks are visible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So here we are a few days later and my hopes have been fulfilled!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, one chick anyway. These were really difficult shots to render due to the bright sunlight. It took a lot of post-processing work to produce some acceptable shots. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Skip forward a few days: the second egg never hatched and — I'm told this is normal behaviour — the loons have abandoned the nest and the remaining egg and moved off to rear the chick in more open water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's less than a week before I leave and I really should be packing! I am, sort of: I've sorted my camera gear (major undertaking!), done my computer backup and prepared my travel hard drives, and I've updated the Excel file that details what I'm going to pack and how the containers will be organized. I always bring too much, only use half the stuff, but better to have it than not and there's room in the car, and I have the rooftop cargo carrier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last year I had some specific photographic goals. I achieved some of those, hence fewer specific goals for this year. I do have some, though:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Icebergs</i></b>. I'll be up on the Western Peninsula, at "Iceberg Alley" between Newfoundland and Labrador. I did get some good 'bergs in 2017, this time I want to try to get more dramatic shots, whether by finding unusual lighting or composition, or both. I'm a little unfocused here, hopefully it will 'just happen' when I'm there.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Whales</i></b>! I still want to see a full breach. But they're addictive, these massive beasts are spectacular. I'm planning to take the family out whalewatching when we get together in the Bonavista area.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Puffins</i></b>, of course, in Elliston. My son and family will be with me and (weather permitting!) my granddaughters will love seeing these birds when we go there.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Photo friends</i></b>: Ron and Ricki will be in Twillingate at the same time as me for a few days, and I'll see Trudy and Jeff there too. I'd like to visit with Ray Mackey and Sheldon Hicks and maybe Darrell Heath and other local photographer and artist friends while I'm there.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some long exposure <b><i>oceanscape</i></b> shots. I'm not satisfied with most of what I have so far and want to try harder. As you'll see below, I've got some new equipment to try to make that happen</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Stars</i></b>. Again, I have some new hardware and I'm hoping for some more dramatic images. Wouldn't it be great if there was an Aurora event? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>People</i></b>. I say this every year: I want to make more images with people in them, tell some stories. I have to force myself to do this, it's not one of my strengths!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I also just booked 3 nights in <b><i>Westport, NS</i></b> — actually, past Digby — on the far western tip of Nova Scotia on the way home, August 19-22. A friend recommended this place for outstanding whale watching and it's a major birding area, including bird banding and migration centres (prime time, apparently!). Lighthouses, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One challenge: "Digby Scallops" come from there. But I was told there are only two remaining eating establishments within a couple of hundred km — a restaurant and a café. Apparently there used to be a famous restaurant a ferry-ride away but they have closed! I'm sure I won't starve...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Should be great. Have a look at their website: <a href="https://www.novascotiawhalewatching.ca/"><b>https://www.novascotiawhalewatching.ca/</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I'm writing this post over time.</i> It's now Tuesday, June 25 and I'm leaving on Monday. Lots to do before I go... and some snags have come up. Let's just say that I have an appointment tomorrow for another probable root canal (I don't want ti be stuck out there in pain...) and yesterday, I had some car trouble where the "Check Engine Light" and others came on and I had no throttle. I got the car to Subaru but their diagnosis was, "we can't reproduce the problem". Great. It better not happen in the boonies in Newfoundland! The car's going back in on Thursday for brakes and another pass with the diagnostic computer. Initially they thought it was the catalytic converter, now they think something to do with the 'throttle body sensor'. Wish me luck! I renewed my CAA Plus membership...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway my packing list is complete, I just have to get the stuff into travel bins and loaded in the car. I have to call Bell today to suspend services for the summer (why pay if I'm not here?) and finish up some house arrangements. Basically ready to go, though!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look at me. As I said last time, you KNOW I love basketball. I'm 4'20", I outweigh most NBA players and when I jump, I sometimes can ALMOST get my toes off the ground! What's not to love about that game! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <b><i>Kawhi, if you're reading this, you know we want you to stay! Marc, Kyle, Pascal and everyone else, "Good Job", guys! And Nick: "Kudo's, man"! </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Congratulations, NBA Champions, Toronto Raptors! </span></i></b></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">House still for sale</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It hasn't sold yet, despite being an exceptional value for an very attractive property. People buy houses for various reasons, but in my mind, the ideal buyer would be a senior couple looking to get out of the GTA to a year-round or recreational home within a two hour or so driving distance from the city. The quiet and meticulously maintained Inn across the road makes it not-so-isolated location and it's steps away from the dock on the lake. It's a one-storey bungalow which could become wheelchair friendly if needed, it's high and dry, the road is the first one cleared after a snow, and there's a huge 3-car garage for vehicles and toys! Because it's not directly on the water, taxes are less than half, as is the asking price.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you know someone who might be interested, please have them contact Anthony at Royal Lepage, 705-457 2414 or <a href="mailto:info@trilliumteam.ca"><b><u>info@trilliumteam.ca</u></b></a>. Here's <a href="https://trilliumteam.ca/real-estate-properties/property-details/1357492/1078-red-umbrella-road-minden-ontario-canada/" target="_blank"><b>the link to the actual listing</b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's been a while, so I have a number of shots you haven't seen before. Here are some, and I'll be working on my portfolio site in the next little while as well. <b><u><a href="http://pretty%20well%20anything%20on%20the%20portfolio%20site%20is%20available%20as%20a%20large%20scale%20print%2C%20just%20ask%21/" target="_blank">The main portfolio page is here</a></u></b>, with a myriad of navigational options. For what it's worth, since I work under "Creative Commons", feel free to screen grab a shot if you want, but just for personal use, no modifying anything and be sure to credit me. Pretty well anything on the portfolio site is available as a high resolution large scale print at very reasonable cost, just ask!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I plan to post weekly or at least bi-weekly from Newfoundland, so be sure to subscribe by clicking the "Newsletter" button (or <b><u><a href="http://www.photography.to/subscribe.htm" target="_blank">here</a></u></b>) to get a heads-up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prairie Smoke at Carden Plain. Before the flowers opened, and after a rain shower. The last shot is a focus stack done in the Z7</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's another 20-image focus stack done in the Z7 and post-processed with Helicon Focus. I'm working my way through the learning curve on this technique. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some Carden Plain birds. A bluebird, a hard-to-find and very shy Sora, the pretty little yellow warbler and a song sparrow in the rain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Upland Sandpoper. The D800 and 200-400 Nikkor combination autofocuses on Birds-in-flight like a dream, The fourth picture is actually a different bird, shot at a different spot about half and hour later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Experimenting with the iOptron Sky Tracker. I'm anxious to try it again in Newfoundland in a dark sky spot. There's a bit of aurora borealis in this shot of the Northern end of the Milky Way. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A 10-stop ND filter combined with the Nikkor-S 14-30mm f/4 and then some post-processing with Topaz Studio yielded this shot on 12-Mile Lake. The same combination was used for this slo-mo shot of the White Water.</span><br />
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-40374068654146497632019-05-26T20:25:00.000-04:002019-05-29T22:38:43.737-04:00Hi, I'm Glenn and I'm a Blog-a-holic<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hi, I'm Glenn and I'm a Blog-a-holic.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's been more than a month since I last posted and I'm going through withdrawal. Well not exactly, but it's heartening to look at all the messages I've received saying, "what's going on, I haven't seen a blog post from you in a while?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mostly I post on Facebook. If it's just a picture, with no real story to tell behind it, it's easier. And I've gotten in the habit of logging in there because I help moderate the Photoshop and Photography group, and I spend (too many) hours in this computer chair.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don't get me started. I wear a Garmin Vivofit so I can look and see, "oh, another day I didn't do very many steps". It motivates me occasionally, but my entire life revolves around my bed, my computer chair, my couch, my car seat... and other places to sit and lie down. I've started walking a little bit to prepare for my summer Newfoundland trip, but not enough. I've complained about leg pains of different sorts and they have to come from sitting too much!</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's interesting that in the military, the pilot flies the right seat, not the left as in civilian aviation. I read somewhere that has something to do with having access to the cyclic and other controls in a helicopter, but I'm not sure. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Apparently after you solo, you get dunked in a bathtub full of icewater, an RCAF tradition that's been going on since the very beginning almost 100 years ago. Maybe even the same bathtub. In Manitoba, in the middle of winter! Brrrr. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have, however, kept my sketchbook and charcoals/pencils. Again I'm not very good but if the urge takes me, it's not a big chore to sketch something. Here's the latest:</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look at me. You KNOW I love basketball. I'm 4'20", I outweigh most NBA players and when I jump, I sometimes can ALMOST get my toes off the ground! What's not to love about that game!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PS as I write this, they just beat the Bucks. I'm not buying a "<b>Ran the East</b>" shirt because I'm waiting for my <b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #741b47;">NBA CHAMPIONS</span></b> shirt!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I keep reading rants online about how the Walmarts of the world are eliminating jobs by installing self-checkouts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm NOT with them on this one. When was the last time you pulled up to a gas pump and an attendant came out to fill up your car, check your oil and cleaned your windshield? Some stations offer that service but you pay extra for the privilege, makes sense, right? After all they do have to pay that attendant... when you go to a restaurant, do you still line up at the cashier to pay cash on the way out, or does your server bring over that portable credit card reader so you don't have to get out of your chair to pay for dinner? Oh and it offers to calculate the tip for you too, if you want. When was the last time you stood in line at a bank for the teller? Or do you do your banking online or at an ATM? Do you even carry cash any more?
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are tasks and jobs that kids haven't even heard of, unless they read about them in history books, made obsolete by technology. Buggy whip manufacturers, do people still have jobs plucking chickens or delivering ice blocks? Do they still milk cows by hand? When was the last time you saw a bunch of guys with scrapers and brooms come out and clean the ice between periods of a hockey game? We have machines for that.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are new jobs arising every day which nobody ever thought of until now, and which most of us older folks can't even imagine. The world is changing, get with the program.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Get over it, ladies and gentlemen (and people of other non-binary genders). The world our grandparents and parents grew up in is gone. The world WE grew up in is gone. The world our kids grew up in is evolving. Ten years from now, people will not remember what a taxi driver was, or a flight attendant (stewardess!), or a cashier.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">FAC First Aid is sold!</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know that the new owner is committed to keeping up the tradition of selling only the best products and providing great customer service. <b><a href="http://www.firstaidco.ca/" target="_blank">Here's the website</a></b>, I know he's working on it but it functions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The phone number that belonged to the business went with it, so you can no longer reach me there. If the phone number you have for me starts with area code = '<b>416'</b> and you don't know my real number, please contact me via <b><u><a href="http://glennspringer.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>this link</i></a></u></b> and I'll get right back to you with the current information. Just trying to stymie the Nigerian Royal Family and assorted telemarketers, I know you understand!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the way, I made it so you can still create an emergency medical card to laminate and carry in your wallet. NO INFORMATION GOES OUT OF YOUR COMPUTER, you're merely filling out a pdf form and printing it. EVERYONE should carry one. Here's the link: <b><a href="https://faczen.com/medcard.pdf">https://faczen.com/medcard.pdf</a>. </b>I need to rewrite the interface but it still works.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm excited to get going! Scheduled departure is July 1 and the ferry date booked homeward bound is August 18th, although that's flexible. This year I'm mostly on my own but I'll be hooking up with 3 or 4 groups of people for a couple of days here and there. That includes my son and family from New York, Trudy and Jeff, Dr. Ron and Ricki, maybe Jacqui and Arjuna. Let me know if anyone else wants to meet up, I have 2 bedroom places almost throughout the trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's my route map again. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Itinerary:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">July 5 arrival, drive to Stephenville via Codroy, hopefully sunset at Cape St. George</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">July 6&7, Port au Choix</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">July 8-15, Burnt Cove in Raleigh. This is a HUGE Iceberg year.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">July 15 one more night in Port au Choix</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">July 16-30 at Crow Head, Twillingate</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">July 30-August 2 in New-Wes-Valley, Greenspond</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">August 2-8 in Bonavista, last night probably Trinity</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">August 8-15 at Pouch Cove.</span></li>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I bought a new camera!</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got a Nikon Z7 mirrorless, with the 14-30mm f/4 Z-mount lens and the adapter to accept all my F-mount Nikon lenses. This will be my landscape and general purpose camera. My trusty D800 seems to be better for birds and long telephoto stuff — or I'm just not far enough along the learning curve on the "Z". We'll see...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtgE9aw9vtI" target="_blank">Here</a></b>'s a silly "unboxing video" I did. It's traditional!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>My D5500 and 18-55mm lens is for sale</b>. LOCATED IN CANADA. Comes with the kit lens (18-55), two batteries and charger. In EUC, never had any problem with it. I have the box, the manual, a guide book, a Lowepro case, a wireless ML-L3 remote, the strap... <b>shutter count is only 18,235</b>. I'll throw in a 32Gb SD card or two.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The strap mounting point on the top right side (looking at the back of the camera) is broken. See the third picture. I don’t remember how but the camera’s never been dropped. I </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">think when I took the regular strap off — I’ve used a BlackRapid style sling strap mounted to the tripod mount almost since day 1. I’ll throw that in too.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I bought it as a backup to my D800 2 years ago. Now my D800 is going to be my backup camera to my new Z7.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Henry's wants $650 for the used body only plus $160 for the used lens plus taxes... You do the math.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I want $600 CDN total. That's Canadian Dollars. Like $450 US. Plus shipping if I'm shipping it. Paypal’s good.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">PS: I'm using the strap right now on the D800, waiting for the new one I ordered for the Z7 to arrive in a few days.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank">Contact me</a></b> if interested...</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are a few pictures from the last few weeks. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">See you next time. I'll try not to take so long!</span><br />
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-82704639090506266272019-04-16T02:34:00.000-04:002019-04-16T03:20:07.438-04:00Left Brain Challenge<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Right Brain is considered the creative, artistic side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Left Brain is the calculating, scientific half.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those who know me know that it's only in this part of my life — say for the last 15 or 20 years — that I've indulged my creative spirit and done my best to discard and ignore the old technical part. Without success, I might add. I moved over to Mac from PC, for example which is a source of never-ending frustration because I can't dive into the code like I used to. Not that I really want to, I just want to be a "user" and let others solve the technical issues. Which doesn't always work, but that's another story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I 'play' guitar and keyboard (in quotes because I'm really a hacker) but I can't remember how to read music much, despite years of training in my youth. I 'paint' and 'sketch', also in quotes because I suck. I write: no quotes there, I do that, but the only way I'll finish my novel is if I have another 20 or 30 years ahead of me! And of course I photograph and digitally manipulate images.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used to shoot guns and ride motorcycles but always with the left brain engaged, respect for the mechanics. No, I've really had enough of the cogitative life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So WHY IN HEAVEN did I decide to get a star tracker? It's one of the most complicated contraptions I've tried since Rube Goldberg was a kitten.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's my camera mounted on an iOptron Skytracker Pro. The thing on top is my iPhone which runs TriggerTrap software to operate the camera shutter. I could use a remote, but hey, this is more complicated!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What does it do? Inside the red thing is a motor that turns the camera mount at the same speed as the earth rotates, ideally in the exact opposite direction, so the stars stay put in the frame. Note: if you're a "flat-earther" you can skip to the next article because this won't make sense to you. The camera is mounted on a ball head so you can point it where you want, and that's sitting on a counterweighted arm — which technically isn't needed with a wide angle lens, but I was trying to learn how to set it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since everything rotates around the North Pole, you have to align the thing with the Pole which is close to (but not exactly on) the star Polaris.The thing on the right with the rubber band on it is a Polar Scope (the rubber band is to keep the lens caps from falling off), a little telescope you use to align the thing. Without boring you to death with detail, that's the hardest part: you roughly point it North, tilt it to the correct angle for your latitude (there's an app for that), look through the scope by bending over at an impossible angle and you should see Polaris. I saw A STAR, I think it might have been Polaris... then you use some clumsy controls to put it in the right place in the scope. Sure. When it's -2°C, windy, and the stupid ball head control gets in the way. Oh yeah, and you have to make sure the tripod is perfectly level (with a bubble level). Once it's aligned take care not to move anything or you have to start all over again. That's harder than you think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, why? Well if you shoot the milky way, for instance, a typical exposure would be say 15 seconds at f/2.8, ISO 3200. If you know anything about digital photography, the high ISO generates lots of 'noise' which interferes with a sharp, clean image. Any longer, and the moving stars will leave tracks instead of being round dots (if you're in focus. Another issue...). So to get the ISO down, you need to keep the shutter open longer, hence the tracker to keep everything still in the picture. My go-to exposure would be 4 minutes at f/4, ISO 400, not too far off, I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With all of that said, I went out on Wednesday night to give it a try. The moon was too bright, there were clouds coming in, but I got a couple of shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a 4 minute shot with the tracker on. As I said, it wasn't perfect, but not a bad first attempt. You can see that the foreground is fuzzy because the camera was moving the whole time, but the stars were (reasonably) sharp. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a shot with the tracker turned off. You can see how much the stars moved during the exposure but the earth stood still. I turned on the inside light in the car for a bit at the beginning of the shot.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So what you do is blend those pictures together in Photoshop, then fiddle with it for an hour and this is what you get. Pretty cool, eh? </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's another one, facing ENE but I forgot to shoot a foreground shot so it's fuzzy. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm looking forward to getting out on another clear (but WARMER!) night to try again, maybe with the Milky Way this time! Exercising those computational muscles on the left side of my brain!</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Newfoundland</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Planning is well underway. I only have a few days left to book, I'd really like to find something around Greenspond for the end of July, but may have to settle for the Bay Roberts area (not that there's anything wrong with that, but I'd love the chance to roam around Greenspond for a few days). No available accommodations there that I've been able to find.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I booked the ferries: July 4th outbound, August 18th inbound. That gives me a couple of days on the Western shore on either end of the trip. I'm still open for people (photography or artist types) to share part of the time with me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you want to see my Newfoundland pictures from 2017 and 2018, go to my Portfolio page, here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had an offer a couple of days ago, but it didn't work out. Still available, great location and house and price, perfect for someone from Toronto looking to move out of town or even to use as a cottage as a stepping stone to moving up here. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.trilliumteam.ca/viewlisting.php?id=1344553"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">http://www.trilliumteam.ca/viewlisting.php?id=1344553</span></b></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was up in the park twice. Last week, Amin and I went for a drive up — we had a great day but didn't see much, other than the Pine Martens. We did run into a few friends, the "Susans" and we met Dave Nicholson who had never seen a Marten, so we sent him to "the spot" where he saw one for the first time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I grabbed this Canada Jay picture there, and turned it into a sketch:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then Ron called and said, "let's go to Algonquin Park". "Sure, what time?" and I met them up there Saturday morning. He brought Rob Klein and Lil Schneidman with him, Lil is the outgoing president of the Richmond Hill Camera Club. We'd met before but with my memory for faces and names... sorry Lil!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That didn't go exactly as planned. As I was driving east on Highway 60 out of Dwight, a deer decided to remodel the front of my car. The insurance is covering everything but the deductible and I'm off in search of a body shop tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the deer. Not going far with a broken back half. I shot the picture while waiting for the police. The nice officer dispatched it with his Glock: I volunteered to do it but for some reason he wouldn't lend me the gun... We left it for the wolves and other critters in the bush. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I finally got to the Park, I met up with them and shot some pictures. Almost all were with the 200-400mm 'bazooka'. It's soooo sharp but it's soooo heavy... except as noted below. Enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hate Grackles. They empty my feeders in half a day, chase all the other birds away and their call is annoying and noisy. But they do have pretty iridescent feathers!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A digital sketch of Turtle Rock up on Opeongo Road. More complicated than it looks because it was a composite of 12 separate images shot with the 70-200mm f/2.8 lens and edited in Topaz Studio. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We stopped at the ice cave on Hwy 60 on the way back. Careful footing to get up to it, here's Lil trying not to fall.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And this is a merged-HDR pano shot from the entrance to the cave. With a little help from Topaz! 9 shots HDR merged in Lightroom, done with the 24-120 lens.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">McGill University </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Physics undergrads, March 1968</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I should have written this years ago when my memory was sharper. You have to understand, this was more than half a century ago! Gawd, I'm old! I think this group of students were from Dr. Lee's Theoretical Physics class. My main recollection of that class were (1) Dr. Lee had a very thick accent and half the time we couldn't understand what he was saying, (2) we didn't understand it anyway because the entire class was on General Relativity and the convoluted mathematics behind the Schrödinger Wave Equation, and (3) I have a mind picture of a blackboard covered from wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling with equations. I do have a flashback to the astounding moment when I actually succeeded in deriving ' E=MC² ' from basic principles.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What I can't remember is the name of the head of the physics department back then. I know that Dr. Stansbury had been promoted to Dean of Arts & Sciences and I can picture his replacement, a dour and forbidding older professor (he was probably in his 50's! LOL). I should, I worked for him as a research assistant on a project involving predicting lightning for a summer or two afterwards. Anyway his name escapes me but he was an intimidating guy who always seemed to be angry at us and had no patience for any 'tomfoolery'. We'll call him "Dr. X".</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We spent our time in the MacDonald Physics building, a stone edifice built in 1893. The halls were 'hallowed', that's where Dr. Ernest Rutherford did his work on radioactivity, for which he won a Nobel Prize (in chemistry, though!). As an aside, the CCD sensors that Nikon used in their digital cameras (they now use CMOS sensors) were discovered by Willard Boyle, a McGill Physics alum, for which he shared a Nobel Prize in 2009). And you thought this was going to be boring!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So the dark hallowed mahogany halls of the building were decorated with ancient pictures of famous physicists and class pictures posed in front of the building. Many of them dated back more than a half a century — what is now over a full hundred years — gazed at with reverence by students and faculty alike. Dr. X was very much steeped in tradition, I recall. We, on the other hand, were irreverent. Oh, we did our share of stupid nerdy things, à la Sheldon Cooper, but we were all serious students, every briefcase contained a Keuffel and Esser slide rule and a book of log tables, spiral-bound notebooks filled with mathematical derivations and mechanical pencils because they were easier to sharpen or at least use after a lead broke. Remember, these were the days before computers, or even pocket calculators!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was like mine except my sheath was green. It went with me everywhere. To quote Dr. Leonard Hofstadter, "I wasn't a Nerd, I was the King of Nerds"!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Someone came up with the idea of shooting a picture of our class that echoed the ancient pictures in the hallways. Since I was into photography (and actually owned a Nikon and had a darkroom), I was designated to take the picture. So one day we all dressed up in period costume as best we could, and gathered on the worn stone steps of the MacDonald building (I remember the steps being worn smoothly concave by thousands of students' feet over the years).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I shot the picture, I put the camera on a timer and ran into the shot. If you don't recognize me, I was the handsome fellow on the right with the Beatles haircut. Don't ask me for other names, they're long gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I printed the 8x10's I made them sepia, to match the aged images in the hall. I know I printed one for each of us, and I wonder if anyone still has one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On a quiet afternoon, with nobody else around, I took down one of the mahogany-framed, glass-covered pictures on a wall, and slid our photo in front of the existing picture. Then it went back up on the wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every time we walked by it, we used to touch it and laugh inside. It looked just like the old ones. Then one day, maybe as much as a year later, Dr. X came into one of our classes. And seriously laid into us for violating and destroying a venerated piece of history. I remember I came clean and invited him to open the frame, so he could see that the original picture was still there, untouched. He stormed out, outraged and steaming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was a cool moment. Almost as good as the day we sprinkled moist Nitrogen Tri-Iodide powder on the floor around the lectern. About halfway through the lecture it dried and every step the professor took resulted in a mini-explosion! Nerds!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">February and early March are emotion-draining weeks up here in the Highlands. We had a wickedly cold January and everyone I know turned into a hermit, too cold to venture outdoors unless you had to. Sadly, after more than half of March is gone by, I've literally shot NO pictures. I just don't feel like getting out there. Later this week, I'm going to try to go up to Algonquin Park, especially if Dr. Ron comes for a visit and spurs me into it. I've been going from my bed to my computer chair to the couch and back again, with the occasional stop in the bathroom. Sad. My Garmin Vivofit says I've averaged less than 3000 steps a day, and I'm feeling it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>My house is for sale </i></b>— as I said last year, I want to move back to the city when I CAN instead of when I HAVE TO. I love living here, don't get me wrong — but at this age and condition, it's that time. Here's the link to the listing if you, or someone you know, wants to live in God's country. </span><b style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.trilliumteam.ca/viewlisting.php?id=1344553" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.trilliumteam.ca/viewlisting.php?id=1344553</span></a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The birds aren't back yet. I'm seeing reports in other areas of the Province — further South — of meadowlarks, kildeer, bluebirds. Even a Phoebe. Nothing at Carden yet. Wylie Road is still closed (I wouldn't dare, snowcovered and not plowed) beyond the Warbler woods. I did hear some meadowlarks but they didn't come out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm well on my way to planning my Newfoundland trip this summer. Yes, I'm going back again, I don't think I want to live there (you think winter was tough here?) but I absolutely love it there. I've booked all my accommodations, except for a few travel days and one four-day period at the end of July which is up in the air. I'm looking at leaving home around July 1st or so, coming home about August 20th.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />This was the original plan, and it's looking good. I won't go to Labrador — it's a trek and I don't think there's that much to see — and the timing's a little different. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The one new place for me is the Northern Peninsula, overlooking Iceberg Alley and near the Viking settlements at L'Anse aux Meadows. I'm bringing all the camera gear and the computer — whether I get a new camera for the trip depends on the sale of my house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've booked 2-bedroom or more accommodations throughout but I'm on my own except for a week or so around the end of July/beginning of August. I'd love some company and I know all the great spots to shoot, so if you've always wanted to go to the Rock, now's the time! <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank"><b>Get in touch</b></a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I reworked an older image that I had taken in Old Montreal. A Facebook colleague had put up some work that showed an effect I really liked. I couldn't duplicate it (nor would I want to) but it inspired me to make this picture:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took this picture of the Red Umbrella Inn across the road on a grey, very cold day. In fact I took several, sitting in my car just in front of my driveway, and merged them to a high resolution pano.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, the purpose was to use it to do a pencil sketch. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without further ado, here's the actual pencil sketch I did. HB Graphite pencil on Strathmore fine-tooth sketch paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I opened this pencil sketch in Photoshop and Topaz and did a little fine tuning. Here's what I ended up with:</span><br />
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<b><i>Newfoundland</i></b><br />
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On the cusp. I need to decide soon. Talk to me...<br />
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(also the house for sale thing. Procrastinating).<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weather forecast for the week is lousy but Sunday looked OK so I headed up to the Park. Never disappointed! My big problem is choosing which images to post here but hey this is a digital world, so I have a bunch! I'll split them up...</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shooting right into the sun at Lake of Two Rivers. Some HDR and Topaz manipulation to give it the effect I wanted </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is an edit of the picture above it. I wonder what caused the break between the stalagtites and the stalagmites. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This ice cave is on the north side of highway 60 near LOTR. What looks like another cavern is actually a big ball of ice! It was treacherous climbing in there: wear good boots, cleats if you have them, and be prepared to wade through deep snow.</span></td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(or as Ron would call them, "chickens")</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lot of people think Pine Martens are cute, cuddly creatures. They are NOT. One of my Facebook friends calls them "adorable assassins". They may look cute... this day I managed to capture images of one in a pissy mood. They have teeth that don't fool around.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These were all shot at Mew Lake, but I saw them in 2 other locations that day as well. These pictures came out best.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shot all of the bird and critter pictures with my D800 and Nikon 200-400 f/4, handheld or leaning on a railing (my arms and shoulders are still tired!). They came out sharp and beautiful, I thought, until I ran them through Topaz Labs AI-Clear. <b>What a difference! </b>You would think I shot with a $10,000 lens (Oh, wait... look up the Nikon 200-400!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AI-Clear is an adjustment in Topaz Studio. You can use a preset version of it for free, or you can download the 'Pro' version, that's currently under $100. Or you can trial the Pro version for 30 days for free. It is absolutely worth it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a <b>Topaz Labs</b> icon in the right panel of this blog. If you use that link, and you read what to put in the coupon field below the icon, you'll get another 15% discount. <i>I could tell you what it says, but what would the fun be in that? Go see for yourself!</i></span><br />
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<br />Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-22738077377134320162019-02-01T15:02:00.000-05:002019-02-01T15:04:23.180-05:00OK, it's c-c-c-cold!<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How much do we take things for granted?</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last night, I went to brush my teeth before going to bed and wondered why the water trickled instead of flowing from the tap. I know that the pressure is down when I flush the toilet, but this was next to nothing. Without going into a lot of detail, a few minutes later, it stopped completely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was frigid out. (OK, a little detail, that's what writers do. They paint pictures with words). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>It was so cold,</i></b> you could see your breath with your eyes closed. If you blinked, there was a chance they'd freeze that way and you wouldn't be able to open them. Your nose would run but it would freeze in your beard, unless you were a woman in which case, I don't know what happens because I've never seen a woman with snot on her face. Except on TV when she's just finished a downhill ski race (how come figure skaters' noses don't run? Would the Russian Judge take off points for snot?). If you take off your hat it's hard to put it back on again because your hair has frozen in spikes in the few hatless minutes. Unless you're bald, in which case you look a lot like a snow cone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>It was so cold</i></b> that they delayed the start of the dogsled races because the Siberian Huskies were getting frostbitten feet. Once they did get it started and you were shooting pictures, your lens was hard to zoom because the lubricant in it wasn't, well, lubricating. After a while, you couldn't focus because the focus ring on your $2500 lens was frozen solid. Besides, your breath had iced up both the viewfinder and the LCD on the back of the camera and you couldn't see anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>It was so cold</i></b> that you couldn't feel your toes anymore, even though they were encased in heavy wool socks inside thickly insulated snowmobile boots. When you walked across the snow field, the snow squeaked in protest. You could carry your heavy camera gear across the field without feeling any pain because, well, everything was numb, except your fingertips which ached and the tip of your nose which had been touching the back of the camera and it still hurts a day later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're a numbers person, the air temperature was only around -25°C which is just about -13° in Fahrenheit, which isn't so bad, we've all grown up in colder... those of us in Canada and the True North, that is. But it was windy. So the broadcast meteorologists, guys in suits or blond women with ample chests and low cut tops. who stand in front of their green screens and point to invisible cold fronts and low pressure areas and the jetstream, who have made up this measurement called "wind chill" say, "it's -25° but it feels like -40° windchill.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As an aside, I read this morning that the windchill temperature atop Mount Washington was -114°F or -81°C this morning. So I guess, in the grand scheme of things, it wasn't that cold here. And I remember skiing at Stowe, VT when it was actually -40° (C or F, take your pick) and they gave us 4 or 5 woolen ponchos to ride up on the chair lift. And night skiing in the Laurentians at Mont Habitant at 40 below. But I was so young. In my teens or in my 20's. Now I'm 72 and SO much wiser. And so more brittle.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I've lived in Canada my whole life. Not like those wimps in Vancouver, who go sailing in the morning then skiing in the afternoon in shorts and a windbreaker. Or in Toronto where they call in the army at the hint of a snowstorm and where traffic grinds to a halt because half the population doesn't believe you need snow tires to get up those little hills but you do. No, in Montreal. Where as kids we used to dig tunnels and forts in the 10' high snowbanks created by the snowplows, and our parents warned us to watch out for the snowblowers which would suck them up and spit them out into caravans of dump trucks. We used to play broomball in our late teens or early 20s on outdoor hockey rinks (I wasn't a skater) and you'd play a 5 minute shift then go cough your lungs out from the condensation freezing as you breathe (and because like every other idiot in the day, you used to smoke a large pack of DuMaurier a day). Further north. I've been at the corner of Portage and Main in Winnipeg in winter. I was once on a bus from the Edmonton airport to downtown in an 'ice fog' which is caused by water particles in the air freezing into an opaque cloud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, I know, other people have been in colder places. But I've lived up here in the Highlands for over 10 years now and never once did my water freeze up. My sump pump line, yes, but not my water lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back to the point of my story. We're spoiled. Yes, I've been winter camping (once. I'm dumb, not stupid!). Yes I've had to carry water up from the stream for cooking and washing. But never at home! Do you know how much you rely on having water? I brought in half a dozen pots full of snow to melt so that I could flush the toilet when I have to ("if it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down". Gross. But true!) I filled up water jugs at my neighbour's for drinking and cooking and brushing my teeth. Shower? Uh-uh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>So here I am in mid-whine.</i></b> Then I thought about my ancestors who NEVER had running water. And I thought about a large portion of the world's population who don't have access to water, especially clean water. And I thought, I really am a privileged asshole. Spoiled by the luxuries of the modern world. What would it be like if I'd been born 100 years earlier? Or 200 or 300 years? What would it have been like having to do everything physically, manually? Could I have survived?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now if I run out of cashmere soft 3-ply toilet paper, I can sit at the computer and access the Amazon site, place an order online and two days later get a shipment from the FedEx guy and the hardest thing I have to do is open the box. Or if I do go to the grocery store, I get in my car and turn the key and the most exercise I get is pushing on the gas pedal and carrying in the bags of groceries. Including fresh vegetables that come from Mexico or Peru or even Israel or Morocco, in the middle of winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If I'm that spoiled, what about my children? What's it going to be like for my grandkids? We exercise by running or lifting weights or stretching our muscles when we don't have to: what are they going to do? Or maybe they won't have to, they'll be so reliant on chemicals and medications and nanobots and machines that will keep them alive while they sleep. Or will they sleep?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Does anybody care? Or is it not important, is it evolution? But I weep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For those who don't appreciate the difference, perhaps this example will help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday I shot this dark brown dog on a white snowy background in bright sunlight. I set the camera to save a RAW image (Nikon NEF) on one card and a JPEG Fine on the other card (shooting a D800, 70-200 f/2.8 — 1/640 sec at f/8, ISO 250, matrix metering with +1.3ev exposure compensation). To get a good exposure on the dog, clearly the snow was going to have to be too bright.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After doing the best I could do in Lightroom with the two images, here's what I got. If nothing else, look at the ability to recover detail in the RAW image, in areas like the snowbank which are completely blown out in the JPEG.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hope this helps some people understand the advantage of shooting in RAW.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The RAW file. Even though the back of the camera (which just shows a JPEG preview of the image) was blown out, detail was still there in the broader dynamic capture range of a RAW file. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What prompted me to shoot this was because Topaz Labs had pre-announced their latest hot product, JPEG-to-RAW-AI which is a standalone product using AI learning to get the most out of a JPEG. i admit that it couldn't save this picture because the detail just didn't exist in the blown out JPEG. You can't recover what's not there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've tried the product. It works, on less extreme images. It's intended for when you shoot with your iPhone and capture an image you'd like to enhance and maybe print large. There's no cost involved in trying it: you can get a 30 day free trial to see if you like it. If you commit to buying it before February 8th, you get a 20% discount and there's a way to get 15% even more that I'm sharing with my blog subscribers (click <b>"Newsletter"</b> at upper right to be added to the list. If I see that you subscribed, I'll send you the code).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Topaz explains how it works and gives much better examples than I can. Here's the link, and you need to use this link for the discount:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm still procrastinating. I need a push to get me to commit. A couple of people have tentatively put out feelers about joining me, at least for part of the trip, but nothing definite yet. "Speak Now, or..."</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I haven't shot much for the past few weeks — it's been too damned cold to spend a lot of time out there. But then again, it's been a while since I posted to the blog, so here's a bunch!</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next was the Dog Sled Races. It was soooo cold... my lens actually froze up and I couldn't focus. Here are a couple of shots anyway...</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Last weekend was the first of two weekends of the Pond Hockey championships. It's a fun tournament but some of the play was serious. Again it was really cold so I didn't stay long, but I got this sequence:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The "Ice Team" did a great job and had fun doing it. Can't imagine how, it was soooo cold! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I said, some of the players got into it big time. I thought gloves were going to be dropped at some point. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I thought this shot epitomized what the games were like. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The less serious teams are playing this weekend. Much more fun photos, wait for it next time!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I shot frozen bubbles a few times. But you know me, I can't leave well enough alone and I love Topaz Studio!</span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />It was so cold that the bubble liquid froze before I could get it out of the wand! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday I could only stand about 10 minutes out in the cold, so I shot a few bubble pictures then retreated indoors to the warmth of my computer chair. I decided to composite a few images into one, so here they are:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />BTS ("Behind the Scenes") shot of my setup. I used the BBQ as a windbreak and a dark background, added some extra light, and blew the bubble through a straw onto the upside down glass. </span></td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But mostly I wish you health and happiness and love, because if you have those, nothing else matters.</span></i></b></blockquote>
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As some of you might know, I'm a moderator on the really fine and popular Facebook group, "Photoshop and Photography". The group has just passed 400,000 members and it takes the efforts of a crew of moderators and administrators to keep it a friendly and helpful place. There are some people who come out of the woodwork (especially on holidays: the admins call it "the squirrel cage" at those times), but for the most part, it's a positive learning experience. It is Social Media so there are some nutbars out there, you need to ignore them sometimes.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Search for "<b>Photoshop and Photography</b>" in Facebook and join. You'll meet some interesting people and see some awesome work; and generally someone in the group will have an answer to whatever question you may have.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I'm writing this because one common question bugs me. "What kind of camera did you use for this shot? What lens?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, sometimes the question might have meaning. Like, "how did you achieve such a shallow depth of field", or "when I shoot at such a high ISO I get much worse noise..." so they want to know if it's equipment based. But usually it has to do with the old saw, "that's a really great photo, you must have a wonderful camera!". "That's a really delicious dinner. You must have fantastic pots and pans!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know artists who could create meaningful paintings using dollar store paints, a stick they picked up off the ground and an old piece of wood. Or sketch with an old #2 pencil they scavenged from the back of a drawer, and a piece of typewriter paper. Just sayin'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One comment I read there this week pointed out that all those photos that inspire you as a photographer — the ones with that incredible "wow" factor, the ones that make you wish you had taken them — were made with equipment FAR INFERIOR to whatever you're using today. The resolution on your iPhone is better than any digital camera from the last decade, maybe up to 2013 or 2014. It's not about the equipment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You've heard it before: it's about what's in that space a couple of inches behind the viewfinder. It's about you and your vision. And you can work on that by taking more and more pictures, and looking at other people's work, and not giving up because you get better and better every day. Want proof? Go look at pictures you made 5 years ago. Are they as good as what you're doing today?</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One thing that's hard to get past as a moderator (or as a teacher or a judge): approving (or critiquing or scoring) images that are REALLY bad. Obviously taken by a real novice, sometimes presented with pride, "my first attempt in Photoshop". But then you realize that we've all started somewhere! I'm reminded of when I proudly showed Rosa (a former girlfriend who was an artist) my first sketch, and she deflated me by saying, "yeah, like a kindergarten kid's first finger painting."</span></i></blockquote>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What inspires me?</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I'm not going to write the long answer to that one, but I'd like to point you in one particular direction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Turn on your TV. Watch any movie or show, or especially, any commercial. I get that it isn't still photography, but hit Pause. Marvel at the fact that there's NEVER a poorly exposed or badly focused shot, or badly lit scene. Look at the composition. It's all perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick up a magazine. Look at the ads. Ditto. Any one of those pictures would get a 10 out of 10 in your club competitions. Analyse them and ask yourself "why" or "how"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The people who make these pictures are professionals. REAL professionals. Yes they have huge equipment budgets and assistants and studios and... but give one of them an iPhone and I'll bet they'll create fantastic images with it. Learn from these people. Learn by studying their work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The world lost a really good guy a few days ago. Regrettably, I didn't know Bruce really that well. Bruce was a member of the Mississauga club, he was up here on a workshop and we stayed in touch. He came back and we spent some time shooting together up here a while ago, he ended up staying here for a few days and I don't think a smile ever left his, or my face. He had recently lost his wife and he threw himself into his travel and his photography as a raison d'être.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think he split his time between Mississauga and his property in Penetanguishene (or Port Severn?). He joined us up at the Gales of November workshop in 2017 and ended up willingly chauffeuring Karen Young and her broken leg around. He participated enthusiastically in all our activities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He was probably one of the kindest, most generous people I've met and in talking with others of our mutual friends, that sentiment was echoed by all of us. That said, he was sometimes bull-headed and opinionated but that was Bruce. Everyone agrees on that one too, Hilarie said "the club will be very quiet without him".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please excuse the really bad picture (I'm not good at people pictures, as everyone knows!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I floated a thought about going to the Territories this summer, but I think that's not going to happen. However you know how much I love Newfoundland... so here's what I'm thinking.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've never been to the Northern Peninsula nor to Labrador. That's where the icebergs are.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love the Twillingate area. Maybe more time on Fogo Island this time.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bonavista/Elliston. Whales and puffins. Maybe meet up with a friend from overseas</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As on previous visits, stay in rental cottages for the most part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So: anyone want to spend some time on the Rock? I can think of one or two already. I know enough now to do some informal guiding... and I have contact with people who are even more experienced at it. <b><u><a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank">Contact me</a></u></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PS: in 5 visits to Newfoundland over the years, I've seen exactly two moose. Don't count on it! LOL</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">An Oldie but a Goodie</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This image of mine came up in an online discussion a few days ago so I thought I'd post it here again. A lot of work went into this image: would you believe I shot it in bright mid-day sunshine? Somehow I managed to make it look like what I had visualized.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Parting Shot</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's a composite image I worked on yesterday. It's from my Newfoundland trip last summer (mostly!). If I had to pick my favourite image from 2018, this would be right up there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The star trails are about 140 images stacked in StarStaX. I wanted to remove some detail and make it look hand painted, so I used Topaz Impression. I THINK it was based on the Georgia O'Keeffe preset, applied more than once. The lighthouse is the one at Cape Spear, shot at dawn and extracted from the background. Again I used Topaz to enhance the light and smooth things... might have even been based on the same preset. There's some canvas background texture in there I'll have to remove when it gets printed. If you've been following me, you'd recognize that the girl was created on my Wacom Tablet from scratch, based on an image I shot at Peggy's Cove in 2017 and it was used in another image with a brilliant sunset (and a painting!), with the same title. </span><br />
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-83781930073190951002018-12-21T13:09:00.000-05:002018-12-21T13:09:03.524-05:00Get over it.<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is this a "New Year's Resolution"?</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No, it's more of an epiphany.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the last couple of blogs I've been bitching about getting old. Aches and pains, lack of energy and motivation, growing contact list of doctors, awful sleep patterns, a GRANDSON in the Air Force, for God's sake. The list goes on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I say, without meaning it, "consider the alternative".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, enough. I can't promise I'll be less curmudgeonly, but I'll try. Think positive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Three things happened in the past few days that are pushing me on this track:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The oncologist I saw last week said, when I commented on my age, "the patient I just saw before you is 91. Get over it."</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My aunt passed away this morning. She was 102. My mom was 95. My dad died young, at 89. Get over it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On a completely different note, I went to Algonquin Park on Wednesday. Because I can. Whenever I want to. In fact I can do anything I want. Whenever I want to.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I want to write. I want to make pictures, with the camera, the computer, a paint brush, charcoal and pencils. Time for the excuses to end. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In a conversation with my cousin Howard today (it was his mother who passed on at 102) we looked backwards at our lives — we basically grew up together — and we realized how much stuff we've done over the years. If I created a character in my novel who had done, <b>and mastered</b>, all that stuff, nobody would believe it. I'm still going to give it a shot!</span></i></blockquote>
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<b><i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Topaz Labs sale</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're reading this and it's not Boxing Day yet, you still have time to take advantage of the Topaz Labs year-end sale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm committed to the Topaz products. Virtually every picture of mine that you see has had a whiff of Topaz. Whether it's painterly effects, textures, noise reduction, extra clarity or sharpening, upsizing or simplifying, their products are superb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I recently started using AI Clear and now I'm committed to it. It does such a good job of increasing the acuity of an image that a lot of the methods I've used in the past have been relegated to the shelf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is there a learning curve? Of course there is. Not that steep though, you can work your way through it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're cost conscious, you want to take advantage of this sale before it's gone. If not, you owe it to yourself to try their products: you can do a full 30 day free trial on anything in their program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the link:<b><u><a href="https://topazlabs.com/ref/32/" target="_blank"> https://topazlabs.com/ref/32/</a></u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I spent some time working on my Newfoundland pictures from last summer. I put a selection of them up online using Adobe Portfolio. All of the pictures in this group are large hi-res, so for the most part they'd be great printed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So far, these are the best images. Click a picture for full-screen. Hover over it for the description.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Right now I'm recommending canvas wrap printing: I have a good, responsive and inexpensive supplier. You can get up to 40" width, you can hang them without framing, and I can do a large format print for about $100, delivered, including taxes. I can get regular prints too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you like any of the images, please communicate with me, tell me the title or description, and we'll go from there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the link: <b><u><a href="https://glennspringer.myportfolio.com/newfoundland-2018">https://glennspringer.myportfolio.com/newfoundland-2018</a></u></b><b>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>"The time had come, the warden said, to talk of many things..."</i></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before I get into pictures from yesterday, I want to talk about some things I learned from a Park Warden named "David" with whom we chatted for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>PS: I got carried away, writing this: if it's too much for you, just look at the pictures.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, OK, here's a picture!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">David was a nice guy, despite the patches on his shoulders and gold badge on his chest. A bit crazy hanging out with us on the back deck of the Visitor’s Centre in a short sleeved shirt, everyone asking him from time to time, “aren’t you cold”? “I wouldn’t do this if it was 40 below, but it’s a nice day…”. Me, in a down jacket over a wool sweater over my thermal underwear… Knowledgeable guy, knows his birds, nature, the park. “I don’t think that’s a hoary redpoll, look at the shape of the bill. I think it might be just a light coloured common redpoll”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The conversation turned to feeding and baiting, and where do you draw the line. Aren’t they really the same thing? You could tell that David was not comfortable at times. You had the impression he was expressing a personal opinion and being really careful not to contradict the Park’s official position. He made an interesting comment, that it’s not a digital divide, unethical baiting on one side, managed feeding on the other, "it’s a continuum", he said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">At one point he grudgingly admitted that it wasn’t necessary to have the feeders at the centre, the birds would survive the winter anyway, or most of them would. The feeders were really there to cater to the visitors and yes, the photographers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Of course we went to pine martens and foxes next. There was a couple we all had run into up at the turnaround on Opeongo Road that day. When we (Amin and I) were there, they were holding a handful of bird seed or trail mix to hand feed the chickadees and Canada jays. But other people in the conversation said they saw this couple feeding cheese and meat to a pine marten there. One said he left without shooting any pictures because he couldn’t condone the behaviour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">All of us have seen the deplorable setup at Mew Lake. The pine martens live in the garbage bins and through some sort of misguided logic, some people think there’s nothing wrong with spreading peanut butter or cat food on the tree branches in the hope of slowing down these fast-moving predators so they can get a picture. After all, they're eating garbage anyway. Last week I had to wait to get a shot when the animals weren’t busy licking the trees. Someone said they saw a visitor one day, nailing hot dogs to the tree. “Can’t something be done about this? Can’t you charge people”?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">“When we get there”, David said, “people say the one who did this just left. We’re just taking pictures”. It is a chargeable offence, harassing wildlife, but hard to enforce. But David went on to explain why it’s wrong. He used the famous foxes on Arowhon Road as an example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The foxes up there were so habituated to Man that all you needed to do was to stop your car and open the door, and the foxes would appear. Crinkle a potato chip bag and you’d almost have one in your back seat. They waited for people to appear, guaranteed food sources. As a result, several things happened. First and most obvious, the animals were interacting with two tons of metal and plastic and the inevitable occurred, the cars won. Papa fox and one of his daughters are now living their lives out at Aspen Valley rehab, Papa still limping around on often broken limbs after car collisions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">But Papa has lived a long time, some say between 12 and 15 years, unheard of for a fox: it's like a person living to 120. Still fathering a litter of kits every year until recently, which meant that there was a continuing presence of foxes in that territory for a long time. Not just a pair... many. Maybe as many as a dozen. There are turtle beds along the trails and with the constant pressure of a dozen foxes, virtually no turtles have survived. We've changed the ecological balance, at least in that part of the park, in a few short years, by feeding the foxes in order to get some pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">But there's more. These foxes are so tame they would conceivably take food from the hand. "What do you think would happen", David asked, "if a fox nipped someone, perhaps a child, in the process of taking food from the hand"? The answer was obvious: the foxes would be hunted down, trapped and euthanized. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Now let's get back to the pine martens at Mew. There used to be one or two. This week I saw five, someone else said six. True, some of them were kits (or whatever a baby pine marten is called). What do you think is happening to the squirrel population? Voles? Are we changing the environment for the sake of a few pictures? When is someone going to get bitten (not "if". It's going to happen)? Then what. How is it different from bears or wolves invading campsites? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Back to the question at hand. What's the difference between baiting the wildlife, and feeding the birds? Nobody's going to get bitten by a chickadee landing on your hand for a peanut. And since the Park itself is setting a poor example by setting up feeders and putting out suet, how can they begin to prevent people from doing the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">There has to be a line drawn in the sand (or the snow!), though. And by the end of the conversation, we all agreed: it's between feeding mammals and birds (yes we talked about baiting snowy owls but it's not germane to Algonquin Park). And let's not talk about the supposedly "Wild" turkeys at Mew who peck between your feet and come out when people show up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Is it ethical to take pictures of habituated animals, even if you're not the one doing the feeding? Should we be flocking to Mew Lake or Opeongo after the martens? A conundrum wrapped in a mystery, buried in an enigma (thanks, Sir Winston). I'm on the horns of a dilemma. It's just that they're just so damned cute...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And to that couple who were throwing cheese and hamburger to the Pine Martens up in Opeongo, don't do it in front of me. You know what side I'm on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not much but it was a great day, like every other time I've managed to get to the Park!</span></div>
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-74175370936996099242018-12-11T12:23:00.000-05:002018-12-11T14:47:21.302-05:00It's Photoshop season!<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b><i>With the frightful weather out there, some days are best spent indoors, allowing your creative spirit to soar in front of your computer or with an indoor camera setup. A beverage of your choice, music playing in the background, and now that it's legal, some mind-altering chemistry, these things enhance your creativity. It's what I call "Photoshop Season".</i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i>Caution, though. Always wait until the light of day before sharing your images. Sometimes they don't look the same when viewed through less 'altered' eyes!</i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A "sporadic musing moment".</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Up 'till now, basketball has been a bunch of really tall skinny guys running around randomly and exhibiting fabulous gymnastic ability with a goal to put that ball in the hoop. The commentators always talk about 'plays' and 'screen and roll' and 'dribble drive' but it took a long time for me to figure out that it really isn't random.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The plays are all designed to get the ball in the hands of a shooter who is not defended properly by drawing the defence away somewhere else. Thing is, it all happens in the blink of an eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been a Raptors fan since the team's inception. I don't like baseball because I tend to fall asleep easily and it's boring. I love watching football because I played many centuries ago and I understand the game. I don't watch CFL football because that's like listening to your little sister practice the viola (sorry, Barbi) when you could be listening to Tommy Emmanuel or Eric Clapton or Oscar Peterson or...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For me, basketball is different. For one thing, I have <b>never</b> had a dream in the middle of the night where I was beating Magic Johnson to a spot or shooting over LeBron James. I'm short. I'm fat. I can't jump high enough to get my toes off the ground. And it's been over 60 years since I tried shooting a basketball at a hoop. Does anyone still shoot free throws underhand from between their legs?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Football (sorry, my non-North-American readers, our kind of football, not yours!) is like a chess match. You plan in advance what you're going to do and then you execute to the best of your ability. The defence tries to anticipate your move and move forces in place to prevent it, being careful not to leave any other options wide open for the offense. When I watch football, I do so vicariously. I could be that offensive or defensive lineman, or nose tackle. I love to watch the offensive guards, especially when they 'pull' (run ahead of the ball carrier).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Basketball is the same, except it's like speed chess, everything happens on the fly. On offence, you try to find a path for the ball to get to the basket which is not covered by the defence. If you drive into the paint, the defenders are forced to bring their manpower in to prevent it, but that leaves the guy in the corner with a wide open 3-point shot. If they try to cover the 3-pointers, that leaves the middle open. If you have players capable of hitting shots efficiently from the mid-range, the defence is screwed, they can't cover everything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The players are incredibly skilled. Their reaction times are unearthly fast. Their body control and especially their hands are unbelievable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Raptors are a good team. Maybe even the best on the planet this year, we'll see. At this writing, they are 20 and 4 and if they stay healthy, it's hard to see how anyone can beat them. The skill levels of the individual players is outstanding: Lowry's vision and long range accuracy, Leonard's offensive skills, Siakam's dexterity and sheer speed, Ibaka and Valanciunas's power and presence... I especially like watching Steady Freddy VanVleet as he explodes from zero to 100 in a microsecond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it's not just about these individual skills. It's about forcing your opponent to deploy their forces to react to a perceived threat and then executing something completely different. It's about playmaking and the coaching staff are the ones making these moves. Yes, the players are exciting to watch but they're merely the chess pieces on the board, not the GrandMaster making the moves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What's this got to do with photography? Nothing.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time to start thinking about next summer?</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Newfoundland again? Maybe...</span><br />
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<b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But an idea has arisen. What about a bunch of us getting together and flying up to Whitehorse or Yellowknife or both for a couple of weeks? We could rent a couple of motorhomes... or we could engage a local guide...</span></i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Who's interested? <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank">eMail me</a>.</span></i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another 'sporadic moment'</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Does anyone else get muscle cramps in their inner thigh? The muscle in question is called the "sartorius muscle" and it runs from the knee all the way up to the hip joint. Cramps in this muscle are excruciating. I've been tempted to call 9-1-1 when I get one and it's interesting that when I Googled it, other people have said exactly the same thing. One person said he'd broken bones and had less pain. A woman said natural childbirth hurt less.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My doctor had no suggestions. Other than lose weight...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know that too much exercise causes me to get this cramp. Those who know me know that "too much exercise" might be getting off the couch too many times on the way to the refrigerator and back. Seriously, for instance if I mow the entire half acre lawn in one shot, I know I'll be hurting that night. Or a long (for me) hike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So my questions are, (1) how do you prevent this cramp? I've read all kinds of things about hydration, potassium, magnesium... they don't work. Anything else? And (2) when you get one, what works best to make it go away? I stand up, find something around stomach height (back of a chair, a dresser...) to take some of the weight off it, and remain motionless until it abates. Sometimes I try to find and massage a trigger point but nothing really works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyone else suffer with these? Please l<u><a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank">et me know</a></u>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">BTW I just did something to my shoulder. I can't remember any particular incident. I carried a load of firewood in yesterday but that was with the other arm... hurts like hell to raise my arm but if I force it, I can get a full range of motion and the pain eases for a minute or two. Frustrating: do you know how much stuff you do with your dominant hand?</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's an image I've been working on sporadically (I like that word!) for some time. The original image was from a "zombie walk" a few years ago in Haliburton. Then there was a "chamber of horrors" thing set up for Hallowe'en at Pinestone, a year later if I recall. That was a challenge because there was virtually no light in there so handheld long exposure! I merged the two pictures and did a lot of work on toning and colour, etc. Then I added some texture effects and a final cut/edit to use it for a challenge on the Photoshop and Photography Facebook group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last week I remembered that there was a flame function in Photoshop and since I wanted to play with it, I brought the image up again. The Guardian at the Gates of Hell can project flame from his eyes and he set the hair of the female zombie on fire. Without further ado...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I need to come up with a few more creative composite shots for upcoming competitions, so watch this space!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here''s an image I spent some time on yesterday. As I said, it's "Photoshop" season, a good time to go through images I marked for editing from last summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did some subtle editing here. When I first looked at it, I opened up the shadows on the boat/land to the right to see what was there: lots of detail. Shooting in RAW lets you do that. The sky was nice. I had 4 images and tried to combine them but it didn't help so I simply used Lightroom and later, ACR, to give the sky more presence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although it was a 1/4 second exposure, the water had too much texture for me. So I selected it and applied a motion blur to smooth it. There was a bright spot in the sky at upper left and I decided to try to enhance that by using Topaz Studio Texture Effects (I remembered one with some sun rays) and I like how that turned out. Finally I dodged and burned the right side to make it look like the boat and land were subtly lit by the sun peeking through the clouds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This image 'tastes' like it did when I shot it. I think it will make an excellent print.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been in Algonquin Park twice in the last 4 days. Friday was cold: -22°C, Monday not so much, only around -7°C. I got a bunch of pictures I liked on Friday and I decided to put together a little Lightroom slideshow instead of trying to post them individually. I uploaded it to YouTube and you can see it <b><i><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-9SJgLQjoc" target="_blank">here</a></u></i></b>. It was disappointing to me, though, because I lost a lot of quality — nothing's really sharp. I had to reduce the size of the video file because of my lousy upload speed. Here are a couple of individual shots:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seen on the way home later in the afternoon. And yes, too close (although it was with a 400mm lens). She walked towards me, I backed up , just a snowbank between us. She wasn't really being aggressive, I had the feeling she didn't care that I was there, this was just the way she wanted to go.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At Mew Lake, where the Pine Martens live, there's a flock of wild turkeys. They're totally habituated to man, who's ever heard of wild turkeys that root around at people's feet? Ditto Pine Martens that hang out under your car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm starting to be a little disgusted by the photographers who spread peanut butter or cat food on the branches at Mew Lake for the martens (you know who you are and where I'm talking about). There are half a dozen living there and if you don't see one or more, just wait a few minutes. And if you don't see one today, well that's an excuse to come back to the Park another time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we were there yesterday it was hard to get a picture when the animal wasn't licking a tree. Yes, they run around fast and are hard to photograph but how can you be proud of a picture of an animal that was baited? Might as well go to the zoo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don't get me started on baiting snowy owls with store-bought mice.</span><br />
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<br />Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-6083994757599899932018-12-01T17:44:00.002-05:002018-12-02T01:14:33.573-05:00Getting Old Sucks<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I wrote this section two weeks ago. I'm leaving it here because, well, it's true. But if you scroll down a bit, you'll see a little different perspective.</span></b></i></blockquote>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Getting Old Sucks, a rant.</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know, I know. Everyone's first reaction is, "the alternative sucks worse". I get that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it's true. You work all your life, then you retire and you want to do all those things you've been putting off. But... why do you think the word "retired" has the word "tired" in it. My get-up-and-go has got up and went.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday I fixed a loose towel hook on the back of the bathroom door. That was yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today I did more. I brought in some firewood. I started a fire. I watched the mechanic fix the snowblower (I couldn't do it. That wasn't an 'age' thing, it was an 'I'm a numbnutz mechanic' thing). But then he started it by pulling the 'thingie' once. Later I tried and I had to plug in the electric start to get it going because I don't have the strength to pull the cord hard and fast enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know I'm bitching. But back when, I used to work out and was proud that I built a body with a 56" chest and a 36" waist and I bench pressed 315 lbs and funny enough, I only weighed about 20 lbs less than I do now. I'm not going to say the numbers now, because it's embarrassing but when I bought bird seed today (oh, yeah: I did that too. And filled the feeders!) I had to have them sell me half a bag because I couldn't lift the 50 lb bag. A couple of weeks ago, I couldn't pick up a bundle of shingles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Part of it's due to arthritis. My hands cramp up. So do my legs, my abs, my side, my right shoulder... my knees are sore. So are my hips. They wake me up at night. 4 am, I get up, wander around the house for an hour then maybe get back to sleep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My father used to say, <b>"Everything hurts. Except the stuff that doesn't work anymore"</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Do you want some cheese with that whine"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I heard about a couple more people who have dementia. Maybe they're lucky, they don't know what's happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I haven't shot a picture in 2 weeks, or even edited one. That stops now. Back to work. Right after my nap. <b>I'm not ready yet, dammit.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Now to the main subject of this blog.</i></b></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Does this Grandson make me look fat?</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And short. And old.</span></i></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Are we so sure that Genetics is a real thing?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's what happens when you have a 6'2" slim grandson! All of the above... </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>This blog post is not about me. It's about my grandson, Ryan Davenport. <br />That would be 2nd Lieutenant Ryan Davenport, Royal Canadian Air Force.</i></span></b><br />
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I had the privilege of accompanying my daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter to attend Ryan's graduation ceremony at the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School located at the Saint-Jean Garrison in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. He completed the Basic Military Officer Qualification course for Regular Force Officers and he now holds the rank of 2nd Lt. in the RCAF.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lori and Rich, Kelly and Ryan, an iPhone shot the day before graduation. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was interesting that Ryan had bulked up, building his fitness level and endurance before the course. We were shocked to see how much muscle mass he lost over the course of these months. He puts it down to perennial sleep deprivation and the fact that almost all of the PT was cardio-based, favouring endurance over strength. He says he can't wait to get back on the ice playing hockey or in a gym pushing weights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I write this, he is now posted to his permanent base but he'll only be there for a month or so before he leaves for his Phase 1 flight training. All things being equal, in a few months he'll be a qualified military pilot, then moving on to additional training leading to his goal of flying jet fighters. Soon, he'll get to fly the <a href="http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/aircraft-current/ct-156.page" target="_blank"><i>Harvard II</i></a>, an 1100 hp turboprop trainer (for those familiar with the original ones, this isn't your grandfather's Harvard! Fully aerobatic, capable of pulling 7G's and topping out at almost 600 kph... be sure to click "more photos" on the linked page). From there he moves to jets: I heard that it's possible he'll do his jet training in <i><a href="https://www.military.com/equipment/t-38-talon" target="_blank">T-38 Talons</a></i> in the US instead of the <a href="http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/aircraft-current/ct-155.page" target="_blank"><i>CT-155 Hawk</i></a> in Canada because he might be too tall to fit in the Hawk cockpit! These are both supersonic jet trainers! By the way, I know more but won't post locations or other details here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The graduation ceremony was held in a cavernous building with terrible lighting for photography. An hour and a half or more of marching drills and mostly standing at attention or parade rest (under arms, with the C7 rifle). My feet hurt just watching them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ryan was at the far right end of his platoon, likely because of his height. The group behind them were non-commissioned recruits who go through similar basic physical training. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All three branches of service (Army, Navy, Air Force) trained together here, hence the different uniforms. They must practice that facial expression.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Personal observation: I have to admit that because Ryan is just a kid to me, at the beginning I had the feeling that this was not serious. By the end, I realized these people are not 'playing soldier'. This isn't summer camp.</span><br />
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-44666112745602162552018-10-18T13:08:00.000-04:002018-10-18T13:34:09.257-04:00A day in the Park<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>First of all, an update on the house.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I write this, the house roof is about 2/3 done. There's a small area still to be shingled, and then finishing around, vents to be reinstalled. The garage isn't started yet but the supplies are all there and ready to go. Oh, plus the back leanto roof over the woodpile. There was a bit of a delay due to a problem with the roofer's son's health but we should be back on track for completion this weekend. Everything's going smoothly... the bin is going to cost me more than anticipated though because of the dumping fees for the old shingles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He used "Ice & Water" shielding for the critical areas and a waterproof membrane elsewhere. I never did have any leaking but because of the way the structure is built, ice damming in winter is a perennial problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What's left to do? Not much. Actually I have to decide what to do with the stuff I dragged out to sell in a garage sale. Some I'll put away, some I'll scrap or give to the Thrift store. The gazebo roof needs to come down and be put away before the snow flies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It looks like I'm staying for another winter. Unless I can sell it by word of mouth: I won't re-list it until the Spring, then we'll see. My fireplace wood is in, stacked and split (they supplied a rather coarse split and I had to work hard to re-split it), I've arranged with someone to plow the driveway because I sold the ATV last spring, but I need to find a smallish snowblower just to do the paths around and the deck. Surprisingly, not much is available out there right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><u><a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank">Ask me</a></u></b> if you want to see some details and pictures of the house.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The car also cost me a few dollars. I ran over a branch in Algonquin Park last week and punched a hole in the radiator. $700 later... Now I discovered that my exhaust pipes are badly corroded and that's going to be some more. I guess I'll make a trip down to Toronto next week to address that. But otherwise the snow tires are installed and we're ready for winter!</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(This is what I mean by "sporadic musings"!)</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You know how sometimes you buy something and wonder how you ever managed without it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those who know me know I like to eat... and somehow I need to cook. I like cooking but I'm lazy and don't have the energy to fiddle with complex recipes and methods. I had read about these things for a while and decided to buy one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've had it about 6 weeks and at the beginning I used it daily just to learn how and try various recipes. I'm still using it virtually every day. And I have yet to have a bad experience, everything I've cooked in it has come out fantastic! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It cooks rice better than any rice cooker (mine is for sale..., so is one of my crock pots!). Sweet Potatoes are better than anything I've made other ways, and so are mashed potatoes. And steamed veggies. But the best thing is how it cooks meats. I'm used to using a crock pot and cooking a roast or stew for 8 hours. Give this thing 30-40 minutes, the same cuts of meat and it's even better! Also clean-up is one stainless steel pot, 2 minutes! Including roasts, chicken, fall-off-the-bone ribs, even meat loaf!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Best place to buy these is on Amazon. It cost me $100 including free shipping and was here in two days. I notice it's now on sale for $10 less! <b><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B06Y1YD5W7/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=tfi04-20&creative=330641&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B06Y1YD5W7&linkId=20ad77aaa21c6bd6cea2a85d33c862b3" target="_blank">Here's the link</a></b> to the Amazon page for the 3-Qt and <b><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00FLYWNYQ/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=tfi04-20&creative=330641&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00FLYWNYQ&linkId=f34aad097c27530e4b62e90c0e4e273c" target="_blank">here's the link</a></b> for the 6-Qt if there's more than one of you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know this is a little weird to be reading here, but last night I made a pot roast, except I'm on a low-carb diet right now and didn't add in potatoes and carrots. Instead I made green beans and a salad. This is my own recipe, nothing exact. Here's what I did:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used a chunk of chuck roast or bottom round (I don't remember which). You know, the cheap roasts for 'slow cooking'. Or blade roast or sirloin roast... because it was just one meal, I had bought one about 1 kg and cut it in half, freezing the rest.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On "sauté", brown all sides in the pot in a little olive oil. Important step for flavour.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take it out, pour in about a cup of beef broth and 'deglaze' the pot by scraping all the brown bits into the broth. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add some garlic (I like the paste, not messy!) and a bunch of chunks of onion. My FAVOURITE seasoning: Knorr dry onion soup mix (half a packet for such a small roast). Some salt, Keg steak spice, some Worcestershire sauce and some ketchup for some tomato-ey flavour. Mix it up, put the little trivet thing in so the meat isn't immersed in the liquid too much.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Put the meat back in, close the lid with the vent sealed and set it to pressure cook for 40 minutes. When it's done, let it release naturally, it'll take about 10 minutes.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was the best tasting roast I've had in forever. Under an hour, not all day. And the gravy was so good I poured it on my green beans too! Imagine it on potatoes (after the diet is done!). And it took longer to write this than to prepare it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>How did I live without one of these?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The weather forecast for yesterday wasn't too bad, so I got up early and headed up to Algonquin Park. I was pleasantly surprised by a beautiful sunrise and i got out at the Frost Centre to take a few shots:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I looked to my left and, "Hey! There's a bird on the dock!" From a distance, I thought it was a heron but on a closer look, an owl! I ran back to the car, got the long lens, and it hadn't moved! I got a shot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />My plan for the park was to drive highway 60 hoping for moose, check out Mew Lake for critters, then do Spruce Bog because I was told where to find Spruce Grouse there. Next I'd go up Opeongo Road. I had two purposes, moose and critters, of course: and I figured that since the east part of the park was more Aspens and Tamaracks, they'd be colourful by now. Technically, the red maples would be gone at this point. But Arowhon was worth checking on the way home anyway, I wanted to see what was left of the maple canopy. Everything went more or less to plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Along 60 there were traces of snow. Although I took a few shots, I won't post one because it's only topical for a couple of days, next week it'll be old news. Wait... what's that black thing at the back of that field? Could it be...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next I turned up a side road on a whim. It wasn't marked if I recall so I can't say exactly which one it was. There was a little bridge about 2 km in, then it ended in a parking area at the head of some hiking trail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was nothing going on at Mew Lake so I drove to the spruce bog and spent an hour in the area where I was told the Spruce Grouse hang out. In fact I shot one there last week. There were lots of red squirrels, chipmunks, chickadees and red breasted nuthatches vying for peanuts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next stop was Opeongo Road. I travelled up and down it a couple of times hoping for spruce grouse, then I went for lunch at the Mad Musher. On the way back, I stopped at a few scenic spots, including the parking area for Brewer Lake. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />From time to time I shoot a picture with my Subaru in it. Maybe one day, Subaru or a dealer will see them and decide they would make great pictures or posters for their showrooms (that's a hint: if you drive a Subaru or know a dealer, pass it on!). My habit is to drive as far as I can until I run out of road. When the surface gets rough, I've named these roads "Suba-Roads".<br /><br />This shot was enhanced with Topaz Studio but I partially masked the car to retain its original detail.</span></td></tr>
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I love these pine plantations. The symmetry, the patterns. In this case, the white fungi and flora mixed with the fallen pine needles add a great texture. Can't you just smell the fresh pine? </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I drove back up Opeongo Road and stopped at the Turtle Rock bridge where I found Canada Jays, chickadees and white-crowned sparrows. I also ran into Jackie and Robert from Toronto Digital who told me to go to the top end of the Mizzy Lake trail for spruce grouse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They told me where to park and described the trail, saying I only had to go a couple of hundred yards. They lied. 2½ km later... well I did get my steps in! I didn't see much, no Spruce Grouse, but it was a beautiful trail to walk. It was a little late in the day so I didn't linger long. However...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a great day in Algonquin Park. In fact, they all are, including the day I drove over a branch and punctured my radiator as I mentioned above. Next time I'm back, there will probably be a white background! See you then.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I spent the entire summer on a two-month journey in Newfoundland. If you follow my blog, you know I made 9 separate blog posts with pictures and stories of my trip. Am I going back? Yes, I plan to. I'll decide more in a couple of months. I would encourage any outdoor-minded person to make the voyage.</span></i></b>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">People ask me if I would live there. I would in a heartbeat, if I didn't have medical limitations, and if I had a network of friends there. Just c</i><i style="font-weight: bold;">hoosing to live up in Minden 10 years ago meant straining my Toronto relationships: spending an evening with friends or relatives meant finding a place to sleep over, but it was do-able from time to time. If I lived in Newfoundland, it would be a whole other ballgame, it would sever them. You can't just pop into town for an evening or a couple of days, unless you have an unlimited airline budget, for one thing. Moot point, though, since for medical reasons I would have to live in St. John's and I'm a 'bay b'y' not a 'townie'. Defeats the purpose.</i>
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">There are people I know for whom "roughing it" means "no room service". Sure, there are places in Newfoundland for them to live: Torbay Point comes to mind, or urban St. John's. But for the most part, you have to be an 'outdoors-person' as I said a minute ago. At least 3 times, people said to me, verbatim, "you have to love the wind". That's code for actually looking forward to putting on waterproof gear and venturing outside in a rainstorm or venturing out on the water (there's a whole other level set aside for those who like going out in little boats in heavy seas to fish or crab or lobster). It's waking up on a winter morning and saying "oh, good, it snowed! I can go out and shovel!" Stacking and splitting firewood is great exercise. You have to own a Ford F-150 and a trailer for your boat and ATV. </i></span><br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">I'm all of those things, or I was. So are most, if not all, of my motorcycle friends. I wish I were 20 year younger but I'm 72 years old now and fit (oh, wait. That should be an "a" not an "i" in the middle of that word). There are lots of things that are harder for me to do now. So yeah, turning up the thermostat, putting my feet up in a LazyBoy and flipping through satellite TV channels is more and more appealing. But I love it. As an aside, I wish I could find someone who would like to share that lifestyle with me.</i></span><br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can click on any picture in the blog to blow it up. Most of the pictures are available as large format prints at very reasonable cost. <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank"><u>Contact me</u></a>.</span></i></blockquote>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Random musing:</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As I get older, the number of entries in my contact list who have "Doctor" as the honorific seems to be growing.</span></i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My house is still for sale. </span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mind you, after a trip into Toronto for my periodic visits to Princess Margaret Hospital (nothing new, "see you in 6 months". Yay), I'm questioning my decision to sell and move back towards the city. The theory is to move "when I can instead of when I have to", but is it worth abandoning this lifestyle?</span></i><br />
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<i>It took me 90 minutes to get from the 404/Major Mac to my first appointment at Bayview/Eglinton. Turns out that Eglinton was completely closed by construction (how was I supposed to know?). The GPS took me on a tour of some of the industrial areas of the city. From PMH to the Costco at Hwy 7/Woodbine took another hour and a half. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're interested or know someone who is, please<b><a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> contact me</a></b>. I'm surprised it didn't sell: yes, it needs a new roof but that's a few thousand dollars and one day's work. Yes, it's not far from the highway and the Inn is across the road, but those are advantages, not disadvantages. Especially for baby boomers looking for a place to live outside the city. Our road's the first one to get plowed in the winter. You're not totally isolated. It's a one-storey house so when the time comes that stairs are no longer friendly, no problem. There's a huge garage and your dock on the lake is 100' away. It's only 2 hours from Toronto (Haliburton is at least 45 minutes further and don't even think about overpriced Muskoka where you don't want to be on the 400 any time from Friday to Monday).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The MLS listing is gone but I do have a record of it so <b><a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank">email me</a></b> if you are interested.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Update</b>: as I type this there are thumping hoofprints on the roof as the roofer does his thing. All laminated shingles, plus Ice/water underlay, this should be good for another 40 years! I'm also having him do the garage roof at the same time, might as well. So what's left to do to make this a turnkey house? <b>Nothing!</b></span></i></blockquote>
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<b><i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Picture time!</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think I shot fewer pictures in September than I have in a month in years. The camera was in the shop for a while — I had my vacation in the summer, a chance to rejuvenate and renew; now it was the camera's turn! In the end, not much was done to it (fixed the "aperture control unit" and a good cleaning), and nothing to the lenses although a couple of them will need some work down the road. But after the summer in Newfoundland, I was a bit burned out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As October dawned, and the colours started to brighten, I was infected with the annual bug. Every year I say "I'm not shooting the colours this year" and every year, I do anyway. Can't help it, it's addictive. For the record, the colours were better this year than last, although not the best I've ever seen. I was selective in what I shot, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Algonquin Park called to me three times in the space of a week. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />A rare sighting for me this year. The grey jays seem to have been absent until now and there are far fewer of them around<br /> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />These guys are really hard to see until they move. I spent about 2 hours at Spruce Bog and never did see a male. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />I was going to save this image for my "Parting Shot" but instead I put it with the other Algonquin shots. This is probably one of my favourite images, deserving of printing large. I am going to do that, as a canvas for above the headboard in my bedroom. If anyone else wants a print of this, <b><a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank">get in touch with me</a></b> and let's do it!<br /><br />Most of my images are available as prints. I find stretched canvas prints to be very effective and inexpensive because you don't have to frame them. If anything in my blog or Facebook images tickles your fancy, let me know and I'll tell you whether they'll print well.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />I happened to look down at this dead leaf in my driveway and saw this mask! I have to wait for more leaves to fall before i can re-shoot the "Screaming Tree" on Horseshoe Lake Road. Hopefully it's still there</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As Fall progresses, the red maples give way to the yellows and oranges of the sugar maples. Here's a few ways of looking at them, shot one afternoon around the Haliburton Highlands area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let's see what the rest of the month brings! Get those creative juices flowing!</span><br />
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<b><i>I'm on a two-month journey in Newfoundland. My goal here is to post some highlights, both in words and pictures, and to try to include some tips if you're planning to make the trek to the Rock. </i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i>You can click on any picture in the blog to blow it up. Most of the pictures are available as large format prints at very reasonable cost. <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank"><u>Contact me</u></a>.</i></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the last in the series of blog posts documenting my summer-long trip to Newfoundland. That doesn't mean you won't see any more Newfie pictures, indeed you will! But maybe not in a semi-chronologically organized fashion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This post starts mid-August. Amin is back and we're based out of Torbay, north of St. Johns. From there we drove back to the West coast, visited Gros Morne, then spent a day around Stephenville and the Port au Port peninsula, then drove via Codroy to pick up the ferry in Channel-Port aux Basques. After getting on the ferry, I never even took the camera out. So the post ends when we left the Rock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BTW for those who don't know, Amin is a friend from the Haliburton Highlands Camera Club. He drove out with me, spent a couple of weeks, flew home and then back for the last two weeks of the trip. He loved it and would do it again, but was admittedly disappointed in the number of icebergs, whales and close-up puffins he saw. And moose. See below!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Total Mileage: 12,525 km</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of car problems: 1 (nail in tire)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of Shutter Clicks: 13,416</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">D5500: 3,083 </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Approx. number of "keepers": 8,812<br /> Not out of focus or poor exposure or composition. Includes images stacked<br /> for merging as panos, HDR's, but not startrails (I discarded those after stacking).</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of camera problems: 2 (dropped camera/wide angle lens, 400mm doesn't want to autofocus sometimes)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of times I went out in a boat: 6 not counting the ferry</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of times I ate fish: approx. 15<br /> Note: this is a significant number since at home I NEVER eat fish<br /> Note: in Newfoundland, "Fish" means "Cod".</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of icebergs I saw that weren't 15 miles away: 1. And it was just a little bergy bit. It just wasn't the year for them.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of whales I saw: about 12. 2 or 3 from boats, a few pictures, some tails, no breaches.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of moose I saw in all that driving: 0. That's zero. None.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of caribou: also 0. They don't exist. They're just a story they tell people from away.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of birds: Lots. Puffins, Gannets, gulls, sea birds, shore birds, check out my pictures!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of disagreements, testy moments: 1. In a Royal Bank who didn't want to serve me because I didn't reveal that I had an RBC client card. I don't count the time I got stopped for speeding because the nice RCM Policeman let me off with a warning!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh yeah, I forgot: </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of iPhones I stepped on and broke: 1</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of times I dropped my camera: 1</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of oil paintings I did. One. Not happy about that...</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of charcoal/pencil sketches I did: 4. Really just three because I did the same scene twice. Again, not happy, I should have done more.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of waterproof rain jackets I bought: 2. Can't help myself!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of T-shirts I bought: 2. At Cape St. Mary's and a long sleeved one in Rocky Harbour.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of stuffed animals I bought: 2. I bought a Puffin as a decoy for Elliston and a Moose to remind me that they actually might exist. They're going to my granddaughters in New York. (don't tell them!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of times I took out the two folding chairs I brought all that way: Zero. Ditto my light tent and light kit</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Number of times I got up to shoot at dawn: 1.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a fantastic 2 months. I met some amazing people, saw some unparalleled scenery and wildlife, hiked much more than I thought I could, stayed in some great places, enjoyed a variety of weather ("you have to love the wind"!).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /> Newfoundland is serious about their hiking trails. They are unbelievably scenic and extraordinarily well maintained, right down to putting chicken wire on boards crossing wet spots and carving "X's" in the steps so that hikers don't slip in the wet.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was at the foot of the cliff where the house I rented was located.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hiked out on the Cobbler's Path, East Coast Trail at Torbay Point twice: the first time I didn't make it all the way (before I decided that yes, I can actually walk!). This was from the second trip, and I got Amin to shoot a picture of me on the rocks at the end of the trail. Photo credit: Amin Shivji </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you look back from there, you get this view of the peninsula. On the right is Outer Cove, on the left, Europe! <a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/dir//47.6656534,-52.6694932/@48.3051577,-76.6894419,3.95z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0?hl=en" target="_blank"><i>Here's a Google Map</i></a> of the spot. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking the other way, here's Amin at the very end. In the distance, can you see Greenland? No?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the way, there are some very beautiful estates and estate lots on the road to this point. Awesome view of the ocean or the bay or both. We saw a sign offering a one-acre lot for $595,000. The former premier of Newfoundland (Danny Williams) lives there, along with other big names.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just around the corner is the Ocean Science Centre, part of Memorial University. Very interesting architecture! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There used to be a manned lighthouse at this point, we were told by a local, but they tore it down and replaced it with an automated one and a helipad. They fly from here to the oil rigs in the North Sea and for Search and Rescue. The road goes up and down some challenging hills!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just before you get there, you find this wonderful vista. I did a multi-shot pano here, you can see exquisite detail in a print or a blow-up. We were told that there are literally dozens of shipwrecks on the rocks in this bay dating back centuries. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Pouch Cove itself, there are some slip ramps where small fishing boats are launched. They go up probably 100' on the cliff faces. This old boat is sitting at the top of one of them.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went down to Cape St. Mary's together with Ray Mackey on a fog-less day (for a change!). I took a lot of images including this one of a hen caring for her chick. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amin and Ray on the hike out to the rock where the Gannets nest. It's just to the right of Ray, near the end of the peninsula in the distance. The walk out is about a mile. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rock itself. It's late in the season so there are fewer gannets than there are mid-summer. You can blow up any image by clicking on it.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A young Northern Gannet in flight. They don't get that white colouring until they're a few years old </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shot this from on board the Molly Baun II, a tourboat out of Mobile, Newfoundland.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Common Murres, with some Thick-billed murres and some puffins thrown in for good measure. Can you imagine the smell? Shot from the Molly Baun at Gull Island in Witless Bay </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A puffin doing his best to take off after gorging himself on capelin. Also from the boat. </span></td></tr>
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-27294614854889663332018-08-31T17:58:00.001-04:002018-08-31T20:36:09.527-04:00Newfoundland Journey 2018 — Phase 8<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>I'm on a two-month journey in Newfoundland. My goal here is to post some highlights, both in words and pictures, and to try to include some tips if you're planning to make the trek to the Rock. </i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i>You can click on any picture in the blog to blow it up. Most of the pictures are available as large format prints at very reasonable cost. <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank"><u>Contact me</u></a>.</i></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This blog post is a little late. I just didn't feel like sitting down and writing, especially after Amin came back and days were filled with hiking and driving and making pictures.We'd get home and upload our photos to computer, then I'd find myself falling asleep in front of the screen, go to bed and do it all over again the next day. It might also be partly due to working on a 15" screen instead of my 27" at home. I don't really have an excuse for the two weeks I was in Torbay before he got back... except days were also filled with exploring and doing things, I didn't want to waste my days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I'm going to cover most of the Torbay portion of the trip in this post, then do one more about the closing days there and before we left our "Island in the Sun" to wend our way home.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...just before we get started, here's some exciting news for my photography friends.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Topaz Labs has <u><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #073763;">REALLY</span></u> done it this time.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Topaz A.I. Gigapixel </b>is a standalone application only (it does not work as a plugin or Topaz Studio adjustment) made for batch resizing your images. It uses the power of Topaz's proprietary Artistic Intelligence engine to make sharper and clearer upscaled images than traditional upscaling tools.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They gave me a beta version to try. I did. It works. This is a gamechanger, folks. There's a 30-day free trial, try it for yourself.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I could tell you more but Topaz can tell you better. Here's the link:
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Update: </b>There were indeed some colour space issues and a few others that were corrected between the Beta and the next release (v. 1.0.2, I think). Also this program requires some heavy duty hardware. There's a list of minimum requirements on their website, but I read a comment from Heath (from Topaz) who basically said, "try it". The 30-day trial is free. If it works, it works. Well.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm not perfect (imagine that!). Sometimes I get a little curmudgeonly, like the other day when I went into a Royal Bank because I had some $100 bills that I wanted to change into $20s because stores don't always have change. They gave me a hard time: a Canadian Chartered Bank didn't want to accept legal Canadian tender, negotiable currency unless I logged in with my RBC client card. I refused on principle (I do have one...) and ended up in a fight with the manager before they would simply exchange my Canadian currency for other Canadian currency. A bank. By the way, the teller made a mistake and almost gave me $100 too much. I shouldn't have said anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But that's not what I'm writing about here. As I age, with increasing arthritis and so on, I've been having some issues walking, especially on uneven surfaces and downhill. Stepping down is really hard for me and I've grudgingly started using a cane in some circumstances. Somehow that makes me operate at half-speed.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Keep reading, I'm getting there.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The other day, I went to Cape Spear before dawn, to capture the first sunrise in North America (Cape Spear is the easternmost point on the Continent). I'm driving there at 5 am and already seeing lightening skies and the beginnings of a beautiful red glow. I'm late, and to get to where I want to shoot, I have to climb a million steps (another issue. You try it carrying as much extra weight as I do!). Then I have to walk out a meandering path between the rocks, up, and down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Screw it. I'm doing this". And without any difficulty whatsoever, I did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do I really have trouble stepping down? Or is it in my head? Thing is, if I can't be sure of a secure foot placement, I'm afraid that I won't be able to quickly take the extra steps to keep my balance and not fall. I've rolled over on my ankle too often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not only did I venture up there at speed, but I wandered the rocks for a better shooting spot, carrying, by the way, two cameras, a bag and a tripod. Then afterwards, I walked DOWN the thousand steps back to the parking lot without hesitation. Maybe it was all in my head. Maybe I'm not as old as I feel sometimes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I told you that I found this great house. And as advertised, Linsey and Peter have not omitted anything in making this place a 5-star accommodation. I did a little iPhone video the day I got here: Click <b><u><a href="http://photography.to/video/torbay.mov" target="_blank"><i>here</i></a></u></b> to watch. Opens in Quicktime player.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My only suggestion was to go outside and chop down the power, phone and fibre optic lines interfering with the view! LOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm here until August 25th. Amin arrives on the 17th, he has his choice of 3 bedrooms. I've appropriated the loft!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From this location, we can access everything as far away as Cape St. Mary's in a day trip. We might even go back to Bonavista to visit the puffins again. I'm 10 minutes from St. John's airport and only about 15 - 20 minutes from downtown St. John's, depending on traffic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quidi Vidi is a quaint little area (read: 'touristy'!) of St. John's nestled in the hills just northeast of the downtown. Old buildings, fishing stages, and the Quidi Vidi brewery where they make Iceberg Beer among others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Signal Hill is an exceptional place to photograph from. And you meet neat people there!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />There are a variety of places to shoot from. Another one is behind those buildings on the right, halfway up the hill. There are trails everywhere to take you out to great spots. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the foot of the hill in the above photo is an area called "The Battery". It sits just at the entrance to the Harbour and the streets are narrow and cluttered with cars and people. But the view from across the harbour is breathtaking.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />I shot this last year too and I'm not sure which image I like better. Timing is critical — the light in the sky and the light from the buildings have to balance and they only do that for a short time! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">St. John's is known for its "jellybean houses", each one painted a different vibrant colour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'd like to render them differently so that they stand out more. Here's one attempt...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I said, from Torbay I was able to explore other places. Here are a few shots</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />On the beach at St. Phillips. By the way, there's a highly regarded fish-and-chips shop there, "By the Beach", and yes, it's great! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Portugal Cove is where you get the ferry to Bell Island. It was too busy, so I didn't go, but I did get this shot from the ferry dock<br /> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />One night I did get out to shoot some star trails. I went up to Pouch Cove (pronounced "Pooch Cove") because it looked like the perfect dark skies spot. Not bad, but the night was a little hazy. I added some "Georgia O'Keeffe" to make it a bit different. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I said, Amin came back on the 17th. We went out to "By the Beach" for dinner, then went to a spot Ray Mackey told us about:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />On the way to St. Phillips, we saw these dragon boat racers practicing. I split it into a tryptich<br /> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />This is the spot Ray told us about. Shooting down on Conception Bay South from the Topsail Bluff. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To be continued!</span></div>
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-77382186324420986662018-08-14T12:38:00.001-04:002018-08-14T13:19:51.404-04:00Newfoundland Journey 2018 — Phase 7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>I'm on a two-month journey in Newfoundland. My goal here is to post some highlights, both in words and pictures, and to try to include some tips if you're planning to make the trek to the Rock. </i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i>You can click on any picture in the blog to blow it up. Most of the pictures are available as large format prints at very reasonable cost. <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank"><u>Contact me</u></a>.</i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bonavista is a great little town</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I mentioned last week, virtually everything in Trinity is dedicated to the tourist trade. While the centre of Bonavista is also comprised of 'heritage' homes and sites, there's actually a townful of people who work for a living in other fields. While the Bonavistonians share the same outgoing friendliness of the rest of Newfoundland, you have a sense that they have lives in the present, not just rooted in the past. It's bigger of course, and it actually has gas stations and grocery stores.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That said, when I arrived on Sunday, I was disappointed to learn that the grocery store was closed. Stores are open on Sundays everywhere, right? Aha. Turns out it was "Bonavista Days", a local holiday. No sweat, restaurants are open! And BONUS: fireworks scheduled for tonight.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had rented a "saltbox house" in downtown Bonavista for the week: Trudy and Jeff joined me for 4 days before heading to Twillingate (we were going in opposite directions, ships passing in the night!).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the house we rented, "Dorman's Manor". Only a couple of hundred yards from the harbour. It's a "Saltbox House", architecture that dates back to the 18th century. The house was very well decorated and kept. Strange layout, with a pullman car kitchen along the left side and characteristic low ceilings (apparently people were shorter in those days!).</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fireworks that night. Quite an impressive show. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Something a little different from me: almost a street photo. It's about what you think is happening in the picture. I watched this girl tottering along the unsure footing of rhe stallykins that made up this flake (If you don't know those words, you didn't read my last blog post. Scroll down for it). </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Regrettably, I didn't shoot a lot of pictures of Bonavista itself, there were too many other things happening. Bonavista is about landscapes, lighthouses, whales and puffins.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We of course visited the Bonavista Lighthouse and the Dungeon Provincial Park. Everyone posts pictures of these sites, so I won't. Except this one:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was a herd of beautiful horses on the Community Pasture at the Dungeons. I couldn't get this mare to run towards me, mane and tail streaming in the wind. I leave it to your imagination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The stallion that led this herd was less friendly. He actually bit Trudy to convince her to stay away from his brood. She was black and blue (and other spectacular colours!) from shoulder to elbow for a long time! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have hundreds of Puffin shots. These little airborne clowns are addictive to shoot. And if you're there at the right time... which, it turns out, is just before sunset. Probably also in the morning but I didn't get there that early. There are several places to watch them but the best one is the Puffin Viewing area at Elliston.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Puffins don't fly very well. Their wings are apparently designed for swimming not flying. They have to work like crazy to stay aloft and their takeoffs and landings are amazingly clumsy. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My first visit there (this year) was during the day and the birds stayed on their nesting island, so these were long distance shots, with the 400mm and cropped. Tough to shoot them in flight!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those aren't dust spots: they're other birds in flight in the background.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not the only birds there: these were juvenile seagulls.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I came back there twice, both late in the day. The first time, I used a stuffed puffin toy I had bought to entice them — turns out I didn't need it, they were going to come over to our side of the water anyway.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seriously, they did fly over to check the toy out.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">BUT. Trudy and Jeff went over the next night and got shots of the puffins actually doing things, not just standing there and posing for pictures. I couldn't let that pass, so I went over the next night and got these shots. They're full high-resolution images and will make dandy prints (especially for a kid's room... hint!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">shot from the Bonavista Whale and Puffin Tours boat. </span></span></td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been on the go for a month. </span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you have other people with you, you're somehow driven to keep doing things, just hanging out and doing nothing isn't an option. I did have some 'alone' time but in Trinity there was lots to do and see... In Bonavista I got tired out and did little the last day or two.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While Trudy and Jeff were there, for instance, we went to the Bonavista Social Club for lunch (highly recommended!), we drove out to Spillar's Cove and went on a short hike. It was supposed to be a short hike, Trudy said there was a spot where you could get even closer to Puffins. They went ahead: I'm a little slower and was being careful, using my cane. I lost them and gave up after an hour of walking. I'm glad I went, though. While they were there, I averaged over 8000 steps/day. When they left, half that!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A short hike indeed! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">August 4th I travelled to Torbay, to this amazing house overlooking the ocean. I'm spending 3 weeks here, the last one with Amin when he comes back. I have lots of goals of things to see, places to go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a travel day but I made a point to stop in a couple of places along the way. One of them was Chance Cove: I had heard on the radio that the capelin were rolling on their beach. True, but not in huge numbers and there were no locals scooping them up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Capelin are dark green on top, so masses of them in the water appear black. But on the beach, you see their shiny silver sides. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To paraphrase Michelangelo, "I saw the colours in the rocks and strove to let them out".</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The other place I visited enroute was Cavendish, where there are some iconic huts, painted in primary colours. You really need to go there in the morning when the sun is on the pond side of the huts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just South of Cavendish is a town called Whiteway, home to a beautiful rock formation just outside the bay.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />When I processed this image, I tried to remove the apparent 'noise' above the rocks. It was only then that I zoomed in and discovered it wasn't noise, it was thousands and thousands of seabirds in flight above the rocks. No idea what kind of birds or why they were there! I made this image the new header for the blog today.</span></td></tr>
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-66018609205375014182018-08-09T10:45:00.000-04:002018-08-09T10:45:12.505-04:00Newfoundland Journey 2018 — Phase 6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>I'm on a two-month journey in Newfoundland. My goal here is to post some highlights, both in words and pictures, and to try to include some tips if you're planning to make the trek to the Rock. </i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i>You can click on any picture in the blog to blow it up. Most of the pictures are available as large format prints at very reasonable cost. <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank"><u>Contact me</u></a>.</i></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had to write that word down so I wouldn't forget it. I'm guessing that most Newfoundlanders won't know what it means either, but I came across it and wanted to remember it.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In some areas, trees don't grow to full size in these harsh climates. So you couldn't cut full-sized firewood logs, everything was around the size of a broom handle. In the old days, people cut mountains of these 'stallykins' and used them to heat their houses. Being so small, apparently they "burned like candles".</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They were also used to construct fences and support structures for 'stages' — fishing huts and docks and fish drying platforms called 'flakes'. Often the walkway to your stage was comprised of stallykins, not planed 1x6 or 2x4 boards.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll bet you didn't know that!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Stranger than fiction..</i></b>.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my last post, I commented on Carl Sharpe's book, and how everyone you meet in Twillingate has a surname that was mentioned in the book. I posted an excerpt chosen at random about a man named Gus Rideout. One day I stopped for some pictures on Robin's Cove road and had a chat with a fellow who told me his name was Mr. Rideout! </span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He was a sturdy older man, wearing a tattered button-down plaid shirt, a pair of khaki slacks held up by a wide black belt around his ample middle and scuffed leather ankle-high shoes. His face was weathered and clean-shaven and he had a goodly supply of grey hair cut to brush-cut length, with hints of what used to be blond in it. He walked with some difficulty and at a slow pace. He seemed to think slowly too... taking his time before responding and he seemed to muse aloud: after completing a thought he went on a bit as if he was dredging up a mind picture from long ago and needed to verbalize it, sometimes talking over my comment or question as if he hadn't heard it or was lost in the past.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I asked him what it was like living here in winter, he got a faraway look in his eyes as if he were reliving hard times long ago and said it was tough "but you get used to it". He used the same words I heard from a resident in Bonavista last year, "you have to love the wind". His house, by the way, was on a spit of land with ocean on both sides, It was hot today and he was happy about the cool breeze off the water. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Mr. Rideout</i><i> couldn't remember Gus (who died in the 50's) but thinks it was his uncle. We had a 10 minute conversation during which I learned that this fellow (I never got his first name) had lived here his whole life, as did his father and grandfather and great-grandfather, he pointed to his house, the house where he grew up and the one his grandfather or great-grandfather had built. He showed me the old 'store' </i><i>(as in 'storage', not a place where stuff is sold) </i><i>which he now owns outright since the recent death of his brother. He said they subsisted on the vegetables they grew themselves (potatoes, carrots, cabbages) kept over winters in the root cellar, and on fish (cod) and seal meat. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>We talked about how hard life used to be back before they had electricity, indoor plumbing and all the amenities we're used to.</i> <i>I told him the story that Carl Sharpe had written about, walking 30 miles across the ice... and he pointed to Tizzard's Harbour, a town some 5 km away across the water and told me he regularly used to walk across the open sea pack ice in winter. He said he'd been a fisherman for 35 years, before that, working in the forests cutting wood into 4' lengths with a bucksaw just like Carl Sharpe (these were real trees, not stallykins). He said his brother once cut 7 cords (that's bush cords) in one day. By hand. Sharpe said two or three was a very productive day for a man and a bucksaw, so perhaps Mr. Rideout was exaggerating for effect or because time had warped his memories.</i></span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He talked about being a seal hunter before that, going out in his 16' 'speedboat' that he built himself, and one day took 27 round seals one after the other and bringing them back in his boat. He bemoaned the death of the seal hunt and blamed the decline of fish stocks on the burgeoning seal population, now up over 10 million animals, all eating fish by the ton. Of course he knew John Gillett, the famous sealer; everybody knows everybody. He said he also owned a longliner which he had sold recently.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We shook hands, I got back in the car and he limped on down the road saying he had to walk every day so he could live to 92 like his brother had. I don't think he had far to go to get there.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's not like me to have these conversations. To my regret. I need to do it more often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last image in the Twillingate area. I shot this from Wild Cove beach — the white sailboat caught my eye and the two seagulls on the rock added a dynamic element. This is processed in <i>Topaz Studio</i>, calling up <i>Impression</i>. I had created a custom preset based on a combination of the<i> palette knife and oi</i>l and the <i>sketching</i> presets that I very much like for some landscape and seascape images. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've become enamoured with blue hour shoots, especially of small towns nestled in the hills, on water where the reflections of the lights add interesting patterns. The master of this technique is of course Ray Mackey with whom I spent some time last summer and with whom I hope to get together again when I get to the St. John's area. I think Ray is out iceberg chasing, but pickings are rather slim this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The blue hour happens after the sunset and the sky begins to darken (or before the dawn). City lights come on as do the lights in people's homes. The wind usually calms, leading to soft reflections in the water. But there are some tricks to shooting it, which I thought I'd share. I learned some of these things from Ray, some are my own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had driven out to the Fort Point Lighthouse earlier in the day and noticed this spot where the town wasn't too far away and presented a good aspect ratio. It was a "Subaru" quality gravel road, narrow in spots with no shoulders and a couple of first-gear washboardy steep sections. I came back just before dark and carefully turned the car around so I wouldn't have to do it later. Some time after I got set up, the 4 or 5 vehicles belonging to the Fort Point Heritage Site staff passed by on their way home. Their careful slow speed reminded me to be cautious when I drove out later.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Composition is important, just like any other landscape shot. In this example, I searched for a vantage point where I could frame the town with some trees. Also, some verticality in the subject helps; a narrow strip of lights is less compelling. For me, a sense of warmth makes the image. So I usually change the white balance to a high Kelvin number (in this one I used 8330°K, one or two steps less than the maximum on my D800). It doesn't really matter when you're shooting RAW, you can always change it in post-, but you get a better sense of things on the back of the camera.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the way, the blue hour is also when the "critters" come out. Moose, perhaps, and fox... but no: I'm talking about the "nippers". Newfoundese for 'mosquitoes'. Make sure you're protected or you're not going to be a happy camper!</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I shoot in MANUAL so I can choose all of the exposure parameters. I select a small aperture. Ray's magic number is "13" and that works for me too: f/13. When you're shooting closer to the subject and the lights are bigger, you get a star effect on brighter lights with smaller apertures. You want low noise, so I set the ISO to 100 (remembering to turn off the AUTO-ISO setting). It's important to make sure everything is in focus which I do manually (it's not hard to focus on lights). It goes without saying that you need to use a sturdy tripod and release the shutter carefully to prevent camera shake. There's more than one way to do that — I prefer one of two methods, either a cable (or wireless) release or to set the self-timer in the camera so that there's a 2 second delay from shutter activation to the actual photo. Other things to think about: make sure your horizon is level and cover the viewfinder window to prevent stray light from polluting your image from behind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now when you're standing there, trying different shutter speeds and settings, looking at the back of the camera, you'll be frustrated. "This isn't working for me, this really looks ordinary". PATIENCE. You keep shooting, as it gets darker you lengthen the exposure time, reviewing images as you shoot, and then suddenly — for no apparent reason — magic happens. Somehow the artificial lights and the natural light balances just so and you have your blue hour shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can extend your shoot with longer exposure times as it gets darker, but the magic seems to happen at that point. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I post-process the images, I retain the warmth, and I usually slide the highlights and whites down, the blacks up a bit and increase the clarity and saturation or vibrance a touch. The DeHaze slider in Lightroom is a help too. With the clarity up, you can retain some structure in the sky and you can reduce the exposure value so the bright lights are not so overwhelming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I realized that I've fallen a bit behind in my blogging: amazing how time goes by even when you don't have a daily agenda! I'm trying to think of an excuse for procrastinating, I'll get back to you on that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition to photography, I planned to paint, draw and write on this trip. Yeah, well... so far one painting, one sketch, and not a Hell of a lot of writing unless you count the blog. À propos of that, I ran into an interesting gentleman in New Bonaventure and thought it interesting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His name is Peter Turner and he's a 77-year old retired lawyer from Sutton, Quebec. After a bit of discussion, we do know a few of the same people. He's been summering in Newfoundland for 12 years and he's a writer. He told me that he's had an anthology of short stories published, and that he's working on a novel... which, coincidentally, he expected to finish that very day. He told me that as he nears the end of the project, he's beginning to feel a sense of emptiness, like when a child 'leaves the nest'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I told him that I can't seem to get that novel out. That I'm stuck on plot... and he gave me some great advice that I'm passing on to you, dear readers, in case you're in the same boat. Two things:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Good advice. Hard to follow. Since then, I've written 4 out of the last 10 days. It's raining today, so after I finish this blog post... I have no excuses!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are some of my favourite images from the week I spent in the Trinity area. By the way, there are TWO "Trinity's" in Newfoundland. And two Goose Cove's and two... I can imagine how that happened but I can't suggest a solution! This is the town on Trinity Bay, not the one on Bonavista Bay, but it's on the Bonavista peninsula. Confused yet?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Trinity is a small town whose claim to fame is tourism. It was once a fishing port and they've maintained many heritage sites, original buildings with two- and three hundred year histories (interspersed with souvenir shops, cafés, B&B's and other businesses catering to tourists). Interestingly, like many other towns I've visited here, there is not one single gas station or grocery store in town. In fact the nearest one is a gas station/convenience store/liquor store about 10 km up the highway in Port Rexton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a pretty little town: in fact they go out of their way to make it so. Property owners are forced to keep their places maintained and immaculate. What I didn't like was that you have to pay to get into most of the old buildings. They even have a 'pageant' on Saturdays where people parade around the town doing little skits and historical bits, but you have to pay to watch them. I refused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you visit Trinity, don't miss driving out to the lighthouse. It's a Subaru kind of road but worth it. Once you get to Fort Point (that's what it's called), of course you have to pay to get in... but just off the road enroute, you see things like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Trinity has to be the Lupin capital of the world. I've never seen so many, nor such a colour variation!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Showing us his pectoral fin. There are new regulations out there about how close you're allowed to sail to whales — not very! But you can't control how close they want to swim to us. This was shot with a wide angle, maybe 10m away. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Here's the boat I was on. I shot it a couple of days later from shore. Everyone has to wear flotation suits, they're nice and warm and water- and windproof. That said, the ocean temperature is about -2°C so you wouldn't last long in the water anyway!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last year, we saw whales up close from the shore in English Harbour — just around the bay. None this year, but...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />I heard a familiar sound down at the wharf in the harbour. Time to take out the "bazooka" for some pictures.<br /> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Just outside of town, there's this place the neat-freaks in Trinity don't want you to see. It's an abandoned amusement park comprising a bunch of railway cars. Doesn't quite fit with their image!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />This one does, though. This church dominates the town, it's by far the largest building. This all-wood structure dates back more than 200 years and it's maintained in immaculate condition.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And finally, I visited the "Random Passages" site in New Bonaventure, where they filmed the TV series. </span><br />
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-13696421480341356642018-07-21T14:59:00.000-04:002018-07-23T15:34:03.582-04:00Newfoundland Journey 2018 — Phase 5<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b><i>I'm on a two-month journey in Newfoundland. My goal here is to post some highlights, both in words and pictures, and to try to include some tips if you're planning to make the trek to the Rock. </i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i>You can click on any picture in the blog to blow it up. Most of the pictures are available as large format prints at very reasonable cost. <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank"><u>Contact me</u></a>.</i></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today is July 15th and I'm starting the next edition of the blog. The weather last night was beautiful so I decided to try a star shoot again. I drove up to the Long Point lighthouse and there they were... scroll down for some pictures.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nah, why wait? Here they are...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Probably the best Milky Way shot I've ever managed. OK, yes it is. The secret is in the sauce! Seriously, don't skimp on the ISO. This was shot at 20 seconds, f/3.2, ISO 3200, with the wide angle lens set at 22mm. I found a spot where the hot red lights on the other tower (to the East) weren't hitting the camera and where I could include something — this tower — as a foreground element. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I shot what I came for: this is a single long exposure, 3610 seconds (1 hour) at f/11, ISO 100. In hindsight, one more stop (f/8) might have been better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's an interesting factoid: the further North you are, the higher Polaris is above the horizon. Think about it: where's the North Star when you're at the North Pole? So I couldn't find a spot where I could include a foreground element.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...so I'll just have to composite one in! I did the sailboat shot a couple of weeks ago in Back Harbour, it works, so... why not?</span></td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">some reflections...</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not the visual kind. As I mentioned and as most of you know, I'm on a 2-month journey in Newfoundland and I want to talk about it a bit. I hope I don't bore you, dear readers but this is about insight into me and why I'm doing what I'm doing. Perhaps it will resonate with those of you who are in a similar phase of life, or approaching it. For those of you who are not: you will be, one day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's hard not to wake up in the morning and say, "what am I going to do today that's productive"? It's taken me almost a month to realize that the answer can be "nothing". I'm not trying to earn a living from this trip. If I come home with some pictures I'm proud of, then great. If I come back with some memories and experiences to use as inspiration, wonderful. Inspiration for what? Well writing comes to mind, not so much painting and drawing since I'm still working on the left-brain side of those skills. No, this is really a vacation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Except when Amin was here and there was reason to go out and see things and photograph them — I don't have to DO anything. I had a grand plan to get up before dawn, go out and shoot pictures, come back and relax during the day and go out again for those sunset and night shots. I haven't yet (gotten up before dawn), except to go to the bathroom and back to bed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's taken me this long to figure out I don't have to feel guilty doing nothing. Sure, this is costing me money, but I have enough (I hope!). I'm trying to stop thinking that I have to get my dollar's worth. Sitting here at the computer and writing this is what it's all about. Or editing — playing with — pictures or just reading a book or sitting in the sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And people ask me, "since you're retired, what are you taking a vacation from"? Exactly. My goal here is to feed and free my mind. Change my attitude. Just enjoy life. No pressure. Back home, the pressure is always there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course that's never entirely true. My house hasn't sold yet, that's a pain in the ass, it puts a crimp in my plans for the fall and onward; I still have to make sure there's enough money in the chequing account to cover the mortgage payment, I have to remember that next Monday I have to get on the road to Trinity, I need to decide what to have for dinner. And for health reasons, I need to get out of the house and walk a little. I will after a few more paragraphs.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...speaking of walking</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're a hiker or like to walk, Twillingate is the place for you. Pretty well everywhere that isn't developed is criss-crossed with hiking and ATV trails. Some of them are official and others are just "there". Pick a road, drive to the end, you'll find a place to hike. Two friends of Amin's from Haliburton dropped in to Twillingate for a couple of days (Lorrie and, Nancy I think: I'm SO bad with names). These two beautiful ladies — who claim to be a lot older than they looked — asked me to recommend places to hike and I pointed them to French Head (scroll back a couple of blog posts to see pictures from there) and up at the Lighthouse in Crow Head. I was not wrong, but a few days later, exploring by car, I came to some other great spots. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even in town! This is shot from the waterfront in Durrell, up towards the museum and you can see the hiking trails on the hillside above the boring, blandly coloured house and buildings... </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the other side of town, across the Tickle bridge to the west side of the harbour, there are a couple of steep roads leading up the hillside. Naturally I had to drive up them, and I came to this place where I shot a "Subaru Ad". Surrounded by hiking trails, and astonishing views. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you look back towards the town, this is what you see. That's French Head across the harbour. And Twillingate is your typical small Newfoundland community where everybody knows everybody and their families have lived here for generations. I posted this picture on Facebook and someone came back and said, "Isn't that old Henry(?) Stuckless's house?". Since I was on "Stuckless Road", probably yes!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I later learned that it was called the "Sea Breeze Municipal Park" and was commissioned by the town of Crow Head in 1972. There used to be a community fishing stage there and it was a big jumping off point for fishermen, both in small boats and longliners, dating back a couple of generations. They preserved and painted some of the old equipment in bright colours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I learned that because I read a book written by Curt Sharpe, called "Memories in the Life of a Twillingate Man". You think you lived a hard life? They thought nothing of trekking, on foot, across 30 miles of sea ice in mid-winter to get home. There was no other way to get here back in the 30's and 40's. His book was fascinating: especially to someone who doesn't remember names. Curt listed the life history of pretty well everyone in this community he had met over 50 or 60 years.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Gus Rideout married Flora Hamlyn, raising one son Wilson and a daughter Marion. Gus grew up in Lower Head and even though most of the residents of Gus's generation moved out of Lower Head in the 50's, Gus died before that time came. Gus was a fisherman for most of his life, operating cod traps with John Dove. Gus was a good codfish splitter and I can remember him removing the sound bones from the fish and there weren't many fishermen around that could outdo Gus. When the fish were plentiful years ago with no time to waste, while Gus was splitting the fish, his wife Flora would remove the pipe from his mouth, fill it with tobacco, light it and put it back in his mouth, where no time would be lost."</span></i></blockquote>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...excerpt from Carl Sharpe's book</span></i></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hiking trail leading South from Sea Breeze Park. That red and yellow building is one of those painted artifacts. And before you ask, "no, I did NOT hike up there." Carl Sharpe helped build this place.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last week I wrote about the Capelin rolling in on Wild Cove beach. They were still there this week, but didn't come right in. Still it was entertaining to watch the gulls fighting over the ones that strayed too close to the surface.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The gulls dive bomb the fish. I spent several hours trying to capture "the moment". I need a D5 with 14 fps or a better sense of anticipation! Anyway, I did get a couple of shots.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Cozy Tea Room</b>. Best homemade bread in town.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Westside Fish Market</b> (near the theatre). Wholesale fish supplier, live or cooked lobster under $10/pound. Make sure they split it for you: it's a pain to do it yourself!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Sansome's</b>, about 12km South of town: best seafood restaurant. Try their seafood chowder!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Auk Island Winery</b>. I didn't sample their 'berry wines' (not my thing) but they have the best souvenir/gift shop in town. I couldn't resist yet another waterproof jacket!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Freshmart</b>. Fresh produce is non-existent in this town. Same thing with fresh meat. However these guys have huge bunkers of frozen meats and their steaks are good.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Scenery</b>: just to mention a few spots — Durrell Harbour and the Museum; Back Harbour; French Head; Long Point; Sleepy Cove; Wild Cove and any road that leads up a hill.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and look up <b>Lucy's Ocean Vista</b> in Crow Head if you're looking for a great place to spend a night or 20. Tell Goldie and Doug I sent you.</span></blockquote>
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-14679219453650241742018-07-14T17:52:00.002-04:002018-07-21T15:49:49.832-04:00Newfoundland journey 2018 — Phase 4<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b><i>I'm on a two-month journey in Newfoundland. My goal here is to post some highlights, both in words and pictures, and to try to include some tips if you're planning to make the trek to the Rock. </i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i>You can click on any picture in the blog to blow it up. Most of the pictures are available as large format prints at very reasonable cost. <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank"><u>Contact me</u></a>.</i></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today is July 14th, three weeks and a day into my voyage. Pretty smooth so far, although not without challenges. For example, I've had a head cold for the past 4 days or so, annoying but a boon to the Kleenex industry. More disturbing is a tooth that Dr. Ron said, "it's gotta go... don't know how long this fix will last..." (the 1-6, Ron) which is hurting me. Hope it hangs in there until I get back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last time I talked about 3 incidents... forgot one! I stepped on my iPhone. Suffice it to say, thanks to Bell I now have a new iPhone 6 and a 2-year extension to my contract commitment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Speaking of eating (we were, weren't we?), I've been doing so with some abandon, and yet, due to my activity level, I don't think I've gained any weight. I don't have a scale but my pants still fit! I've had lobster 3 times since arriving, two in Newfoundland which were purchased from a lobster pound at wholesale prices. They'll cook it and crack it for you but you still need the proper tools to eat it easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fresh produce is non-existent here. Ditto meat, but you can buy decent steaks at the FreshMart except they're frozen. Getting perishables here is a challenge, I suspect. When I dropped Amin off at the Gander International Airport (which make Buttonville seem big!), I found a Co-op with fresh stuff and stocked up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're a stranger to Newfoundland, that sentence is meaningless but to a Newfie... you could Google it but briefly, there are untold millions of little fish called Capelin that 'roll' up on the beaches every year to spawn. They're followed by whales, seagulls, bigger fisn and Newfies who gorge on them. People eat them a variety of ways (salted, cooked fresh, dried...) but it's not my taste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sometimes there are big crowds and big parties when the capelin are rolling </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Newfies (by the way, they don't find that term derogatory, although you can use it in a negative sense. I'm not doing that here.) hang around beaches where the capelin rumoured to be rolling. You can see the waters turn black with endless schools of them — they're black on top and silver on the sides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eventually they roll right up on the beach. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or just their hands when they're right up on the beach </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More exciting are the seagulls. They flock in by the hundreds to gorge themselves. They attack any bird that has managed to catch a fish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">John Gillett called and invited us out for another boat ride. He didn't tell us we'd be fishing or we'd have brought gloves with us! The three of us rode out to his 'spot' on the shoal just outside the Twillingate harbour. Because he had us on board, his quota of 5 fish was suddenly 15! No problem filling it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's not exactly like fishing in the lake. First of all, there's no rod and reel, there's a wooden frame around which a couple of hundred feet of 100lb test line is wound, which terminates in a heavy shiny fish-shaped weight and an unbaited hook called a "jigger". You drop it down to the bottom then lift up a couple of meters and jig it up and down. If you're in the right spot (that's the trick!) a cod will hit it, then you bring it up, hand over hand without releasing the tension or you'll lose the fish. The cod weight anywhere from 5 lbs (a little one) to 50 lbs (a BIG one). That's what I meant about the gloves!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's John, showing us how, with a 15 pounder. HE'S got gloves... </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our turn. Didn't take long to catch our limit, here on John's spot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's Amin with one </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and me. Good thing I brought the wide angle lens. No way we could capture a picture with the 70-200mm Amin brought! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we got back in, John started cleaning the fish and gave us the filets from one. Three meals worth!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was my lunch yesterday. Fresh-caught pan-fried cod. Mmmmmmm. And I'm not even a fish eater!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While we were out there, another boat came by. John and the other fisherman carried on a conversation for about 5 minutes and I have to say I did not understand even one word! Theyspeakwaytoofastwhenthey'retalkinginNewfoundese!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />I took this photo of the other boat, then I decided to make an oil painting of it. Not photoshop. Oil paint and brushes and canvas...<br /> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the way back in we saw the waves crashing on the rocks at the harbour entrance. I wish I could have stayed out there and shot more...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next day we drove down to Bridgeport and Moretown's Harbour. On the way we passed by Virgin Arm, Dildo Run and the Trump Islands. I love place names in Newfoundland! I'll show you those pictures next time!</span><br />
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-19017313095257391272018-07-10T14:49:00.000-04:002018-07-10T15:01:44.739-04:00Newfoundland Journey, 2018 — Phase 3<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b><i>I'm on a two-month journey in Newfoundland. My goal here is to post some highlights, both in words and pictures, and to try to include some tips if you're planning to make the trek to the Rock. </i></b></blockquote>
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<b><i>You can click on any picture in the blog to blow it up. Most of the pictures are available as large format prints at very reasonable cost. <a href="mailto:photography@faczen.com" target="_blank">Contact me</a>. </i></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've started writing this on July 9th. Amin is, as I speak, winging his way back to Ontario. We spent a couple of weeks of awesome adventure exploring this place, although I regret we've only seen a couple of icebergs and whales, both from a very long distance. Perhaps when he returns mid-August for the tail end of the journey, we'll have more luck with the whales. Icebergs: another year. By the way, he left 'way too many snack foods here. I may have will power but I don't have "won't power"!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are things we had planned to do but didn't: for instance, I've yet to get out to shoot a sunrise. We didn't plan to go out on small boats 3 times this week but we did; we also shot almost every sunset and did one blue hour night shoot in Twillingate, as well as an attempt at some star trails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had an incident. In all the years I've been shooting, I've NEVER dropped a camera. I had mounted my camera on the tripod but neglected to properly tighten one of the leg segments and it collapsed. You know that feeling you get when you're two steps too far away to catch it and you watch it fall in slow motion? Here's the result:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It could have been worse. The lens itself still functions (it's my 17-35mm f/2.8 Nikkor wide angle). The Xume magnetic ring adapter screwed into the filter thread is beyond repair and worse, I can't unscrew it. The lens is sticky when you try to get to 17mm but it works. It focuses, it's still sharp, but I can't use a filter on it. I ordered a replacement Xume ring so I can use my ND 10 and my polarizing filters on my 70-200, it'll arrive from Amazon soon. The D800 seems to be undamaged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was one other "almost" incident. Flashing blue and red lights in the mirror... but the nice RCM Policeman took pity on a tourist not familiar with the surprise 50km zones and let me off with a warning. It's hard to spot those signs when you're busy slaloming around bottomless potholes. Watch out for the ones painted orange (marked for repair).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And one more: a screw sticking out of the tread of a tire. Fortunately, it had only just penetrated and it wasn't in the sidewall, so $7 for a quick patch and we were on our way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's three. I'm done, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On July 1, we moved to our new digs, a beautiful 2-bedroom house in Crow Head, across the road from the Crow's Nest Café and in walking distance from the point of land overlooking the bay. The view from the deck is awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is DEFINITELY going to get printed in large format. Contact me to reserve your copy. I'm also planning a sketch and/or painting of this scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The location is about 1 km south of the Long Point lighthouse. That's walking distance if you discount the steep hill enroute. But there are some interesting critters living at that hill:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a mixed-race family of foxes. The male (I think) has the coloration we're used to from the Algonquin Park area, it's a red fox. Mama and kit have cross-fox coloration.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These foxes are very skinny compared to the ones we have at home: but they are acclimatized to humans just like our old friend "Papa Fox" from Algonquin. And, I fear, they'll suffer the same fate. Cars come over that hill at 60 to 80 kph and the foxes like to sit right in the middle of the road. They accept food from people, coming just short of taking it from the hand.
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<b><i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Kittiwake Coast</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We drove along the "Loop" that skirted Hamilton Sound (Carmanville, Musgrave Harbour, Deadman's Harbour, Lumsden) then North Bonavista Bay (Cape Freels, Newtown, New-wes-valley, Greenspond). We ran out of time so turned back at that point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first part was a little boring... endless tracts of forest. We went into Carmanville... not much to see... then continued towards Musgrave Harbour. Best image from there was this one:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Laundry day in Musgrave Harbour. Classic handmade Newfoundland quilts drying in the ever-present wind. We saw quilts like these in the museum in Durrell, priced around $500. I plan to try to paint this image.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I spotted this shed and fence row along the way and thought it would make a good painted image.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back on the road, what's that in the distance? An actual iceberg, just off Deadman's Harbour! It was really far away (some 15 miles out, according to a local) and had been grounded there for some time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Newtown is a beautiful place. They call it "the Venice of Newfoundland", because of the Tickle (Newfoundese for 'stream' or 'river' or 'current') that runs through it. We stopped there for lunch. The striking hostess in the restaurant didn't want me to take her picture (Scandinavian look, braided blonde hair, beautiful face and figure) because "I hate pictures of myself"! But I'm learning to ask, and the worst thing that can happen is they say "no".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's an amazing church in the town, and I caught the reflection in the pond below.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I shot the church picture, I thought a better angle might be from the back deck of a café. They of course let me go there... then the store owner got to talking to us and it turned out he gives kayak tours of the Tickle. Amin went with him. It was expensive: $15! They were out almost an hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the way, there are power lines everywhere in Newfoundland. Because of the rocky soil, it's virtually impossible to bury cables here. I could tediously photoshop them out or simply leave them in. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Curtis, the kayak guide told Amin that a pod of 30 whales had been seen that morning off the causeway to Greenspond. We couldn't get to the car fast enough. But no luck, the whales were gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm hoping to be able to go back there in a couple of weeks to shoot some more. I had actually tried to find accommodations there for a few days enroute to Bonavista but couldn't find anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next day, we went out with Skipper Jim on his 22 foot boat. I've mentioned him earlier: we met last year when we went out on his boat, repeat performance this year. After I read John Gillett's book, I asked Jim whether he was the 'Skipper Jim' mentioned in it. Sure enough, it was him and he's another local with a colourful history in sealing and fishing. Jim's retired from all that and his passion now is the stars — he built an observatory which houses a 16" telescope and he waxed eloquently about what he's seen and his innovative construction. He's viewed galaxies and planets and the moon and, with a special attachment, the sun. Oddly, he's never attached a camera to the telescope so what he's seen remains in his mind or in a few simple sketches. He's very knowledgeable and an easygoing skipper on the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The whale was very far away when Amin spotted him spouting. Jim spooled up the engine and we set off in pursuit but he only came up the once. God knows how I managed to capture a couple of images, holding down the shutter button as we pounded through the waves. Here he is, my first (of many, I hope!) humpback whales of the year.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did a lot of editing to create this pastel silhouette. But this is how it really looked to my eyes. This will make an outstanding large scale print. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On Twillingate's north island is a point known as "French Head". We hiked up there the next afternoon. It was somewhat challenging given our late night and my knees and hips. OK, and the few extra pounds I carry around.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Here's Amin on the path up the hillside. He says he has a rather severe expression in this shot. I like to think that even he was somewhat taxed by the climb. Let's just say that was the reason. By the way, it was about 15° when we left the house that morning and 28° when we got back to the car after the hike. We were both overdressed. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll stop this here. Friday, July 7th. On the weekend we saw the capelin rolling on Wild Cove beach, did some more exploration and capped it off with a fishing trip with Captain John Gillett. Stay tuned!</span><br />
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Glenn Springerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05096211221259559835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31101098.post-5136316161835880162018-07-09T08:09:00.001-04:002018-07-09T19:19:20.999-04:00Newfoundland Journey, 2018 — Phase 2<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b><i>I'm on a two-month journey in Newfoundland. My goal here is to post some highlights, both in words and pictures, and to try to include some tips if you're planning to make the trek to the Rock.</i></b></blockquote>
What an awesome place. Every time you drive around a corner, there's another magnificent vista in front of you. Until you turn around and find and even better one behind!<br />
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There has been one disappointment. Last year was a banner year for icebergs. I saw hundreds. This year... none. Although they've popped up in St. Anthony (the very northwest point, near Labrador) and Bonavista (where I won't be until end of the month), the usual spots: Twillingate, Baie Verte, Change Islands, Fogo Island... are berg-less. We saw ONE off Long Point Lighthouse in Crow Head, but it was around 15 miles away, too far for the tour boats to visit. And almost too far for the 400mm Bazooka (we're calling the long lens that!), especially since it was in the haze.<br />
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The whales too, are conspicuous by their absence. Well, not entirely. We went out with John Gillett, host of the property we've been renting, in his 19 foot fishing boat (just an open whaler). Nothing. Then he went out fishing today with his buddy Wayne, and they saw a big male, showing off his tail. He had invited us to come along but we didn't.<br />
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The whales follow the Capelin when they "roll", when millions of them roll up on the beaches to spawn, and the whales gorge themselves. Apparently there are two groups of Capelin and we're between them. We'll see what next week brings.<br />
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The weather cleared a little bit the next day. We took a drive up the peninsula to La Scie, the last town on the point. I have this need to see what's at the end of the road... Amin feels the same way. I drive — or walk — until I can't go any further. There was a waterfall in Rattling Brook on the way...<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">...but I couldn't get there. It was 'way up and a long climb so Amin went up and I stayed down. This moss-covered forest floor was interesting. </span> </td></tr>
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Behind us was this beach with some colourful fishing stages. Here's a shot I took while waiting for Amin to come back. </td></tr>
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We drove up to Nipper's Harbour because Ray Mackie had posted a picture from there of an interesting rock formation. We couldn't find it. It was windy, cool, rainy... and there wasn't a soul around in the little town. We shot a few pictures and it was starting to get late, then as we're driving out a woman was driving the other way and we stopped her to ask. "Sure, b'ys, you be lookin' for the Lion. Follow me and I'll take you to where it's to". We did. Here's "The Lion".<br />
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I shot some long exposures with the Neutral Density filter but in the end, it was this half-second shot with the camera as low as it could go near the water that I liked best. </td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;">Twillingate</span></i></b><br />
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I'm spending almost four weeks in Twillingate. The first four nights was supposed to be on Change Islands but that got screwed up and it turned out to be in Durrell, a suburb (!) of Twillingate. Happy accident, we got to meet John Gillett. The rest of the time is in Crow Head. More on that later. It's a jumping off point for visiting other areas, and a place to relax and try to work those creative muscles. Amin is staying until July 9th.<br />
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In this post, I'll take you up to the end of June, and start the next one with July 1st.<br />
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The day we arrived, we went on a quick scouting tour of the area. Then the GPS took us to our first digs, John and Linda's place in Durrell, but it insisted in driving us the wrong way, up to the hospital (I hope there's no message there) then up some blind roads. No idea why...<br />
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There are some gorgeous views in Durrell harbour.</td></tr>
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This is the next little inlet beside the last one.</td></tr>
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After dinner, we went in search of a sunset spot and found this little street along the water</td></tr>
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A spectacular sky greeted us that night. </td></tr>
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Next day, we accepted John Gillett's invitation to go out in his boat. We had told him we wanted to see whales... you can't just order them up! We put on our waterproofs and off we went in his 19' open whaleboat. But you need to know about John...<br />
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He is a sealer, or a "Swiler" as they call them here. He's been at it his whole life, he's my age so that's a lot of years. And, it turns out, he's written a book, called <b><i>"Leaving for the Seal Hunt (the life of a Swiler)"</i></b>. When we got to our place in Crow Head, what did we find on the bookshelf? Yep. I read it the first night.<br />
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John's had a Hell of a life. He's one of those people that PETA hates but you have to hear his side of the story. Sealing is no different from other hunting and without it, the ecological balance changes. There were some 2 million seals when they essentially killed the seal hunt some years ago, now there are more than 6 million of them. Each seal eats a kilo of fish every day, so that's almost 10 million pounds of cod being eaten DAILY, Around a million TONS of fish over a season: an order of magnitude more than man has ever harvested. So the cod fishery has been hugely affected, to the point where it's not commercially viable any more.<br />
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He talks about some hard times, in sea and weather conditions we can't imagine (sealing happens in April when the pack ice is still in and people die out there). And he's had some huge fights with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) that have cost him his livelihood. Now he's retired for the most part although he still owns a longliner and his son Richard is still in the game. He's a fisherman, though, from herring and cod to lobster and crab. If anyone knows the sea, it's John.<br />
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John Gillett in his element. </td></tr>
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In his book, John mentions a fellow sealer colleague called "Skipper Jim". Turns out that Trudy and I had gone out with Jim on his boat last year and Amin and I repeated the event this year. This community owes a lot to these people, streets and whole towns are named after these men. Their history goes back a long time ("I was born here in this house, and that's where my grandpappy lived, and..."). And every inlet, beach and rock formation has a name and a history to go along with it.<br />
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We didn't see any whales. It was a nice day but when you pass the breakwater or exit the sheltered harbours, you come to realize that the ocean is not a calm place, most days. Shooting pictures from a pitching boat, especially with the long lens, is a real challenge! We did get a number of interesting shots, though.<br />
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One of a million rock faces, seen from the sea</td></tr>
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This is a Black Guillemot in flight </td></tr>
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A pair on a rock face. </td></tr>
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This sea stack, giving us "the finger" is at the base of the cliff below the Long Point lighthouse. </td></tr>
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Here's a night shot of the Twillingate boatyards. Not from the boat... we found an appropriate parking place!</td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;">Fogo Island</span></i></b><br />
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The next day, we made the trek to Fogo Island. The ferry ride is short but you can't reserve your space, so we were concerned all day with the possibility that we might not be able to get back. That put a bit of a crimp in our day since we felt we were under time pressure. Turns out we were easily able to get on the late afternoon return ferry.<br />
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When we landed on Fogo, we stopped at the tourist info office near the ferry terminal. "<b><i>Closed for the Season</i></b>". Huh? Prime time! The height of the tourist season. All around the island we found that places were closed... apparently their season doesn't start until July 1st. One day away. We even had trouble finding a place for lunch, the only restaurants open were at the highway crossroads in the centre of the island and one restaurant in the town of Fogo. Very strange.<br />
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"Closed for the season" </td></tr>
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By the way, I was there 12 years ago. The town hasn't changed, still only 2 restaurants. But there are a lot more bed-and-breakfasts and holiday rentals. Their tourist traffic is severely limited by the ferry schedule.<br />
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Fogo is different from the rest of Newfoundland. First of all, the geology is different. Apparently a glacier scraped across the land umpteen years ago and left behind a plethora of rocks scattered on the ground.<br />
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The people and structures are a bit different too: they pride themselves on being more true to their origins.<br />
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and in Joe Batt's Arm is a place many have heard about, the Fogo Island Inn. This high end hotel (that's putting it mildly: suites go for $2800/night, and people like British royalty, the Prime Minister, even Oprah Winfry have visited there) doesn't seem to fit. The town is populated by retirees and blue collar types (if they can find work at all). The Inn caters to the rich. Mention Zita Cobb, the person who made it happen and the world is suddenly Trump/Hilary polarized. They either love her or hate her. Lots of more info via Google or as comments on my Facebook post (have a look).<br />
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The ordinary tourist can't access the place. Cars aren't allowed, and you need to have a reservation even to enter the lobby. The odd building towers over the town which is populated by people who can barely make ends meet.<br />
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They also built 4 or 5 unique "artist's studios" on the island. Each one is a weird concept shape and yes, it really is skewed like it appears in the picture. I didn't get close enough for a proper picture. </td></tr>
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Atop the town of Fogo is an inland lake. A short hike takes you to this point. Since I only had my 70-200mm lens with me, I created a multi-exposure panorama that resulted in a huge 150Mp file. </td></tr>
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Another shot on the way down from the lake, showing the town and in the distance, Brimstone Head, thought by teh Flat Earth Society to be one of the four corners of the Earth </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Well here we are, about a week into the trip. I've had lots of opportunity to post to the blog but not the energy!</i></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Day 1 was a really long drive, we made it all the way from Minden to Edmunston NB. About 1200 km. We hooked around Montreal to avoid the traffic: good idea. Follow the signs to "Sorel-Tracy" then stay on the '20'. If you see a car ram into the back of another one in the lane beside you, don't wait around... you can lose a lot of hours that way!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A loon in a nesting box is a mandatory stop. But we didn't stop for any other photos that day. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Day 2 we drove from Edmunston to Peggy's Cove. We had to get there by 4 because Ryal's Wholesale's last lobster cook was at 4. I had the best lobster EVER there last year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We arrived at Peggy's Cove, just in time. Pulled into Ryal's parking lot: they weren't allowed to cook lobster any more! (the government wanted them to put in bathrooms, proper flooring, extra ventilation, thousands of dollars they weren't prepared to invest). So... we were disappointed. Still, we went to a restaurant and had a $35 lobster dinner. Not as good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next day was a driving day, to get to North Sydney for the ferry. We stopped in Halifax to have lunch with Nadia, Amin's daughter who took time out from studying for her bar exams for a short visit. Then off to Cape Breton and the ferry. Again a minor food disappointment, when we discovered that the restaurant I liked last year was shuttered up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're taking the ferry to Port aux Basques, be sure to spend the extra $20 for reserved seating. Not the most comfortable in the world (sort of like an airline seat) but it was separated from the regular decks and quieter. Also here's a hint: when you come in, tell them you don't want to park on the lower deck (smile nicely...). We were actually one of the last off the boat and manoeuvring to park was a challenge!. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We arrived in the fog and rain (what else is new!) and our first stop for pictures was about 30 km up the road. Awesome spot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From there we drove up to Gros Morne, but we just stayed on the south side, where the tablelands are and headed for Trout River. We'll do the north portion on the way home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We stayed the next couple of nights in Coffee Cove... wait for it...</span><br />
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