Monochrome Chickadees

Bored at night with Mr Giggles

If this creeps outta my basement, I hope a bat is close by to knock it back down. This started as a practice in multiple exposure/light painting, that failed miserably, but its not over. And I will use Mr Giggles for a few more creepy pics

Bird day Saturday

I was burnt out from work all week, wanted to just hang out and take some pictures. The birds are plentiful around the feeder so I put up my burlap blind at the window and took a few pictures. Its unfortunate the 300mm lense I have is a soft lense, an aperture of f5.6 seems the sharpest point, but I managed to get a couple I am fairly happy with to show on my blog . Tomorrows another day

The chickadee swarm the feeder but don't stay still long, good practice

The Nuthatch, grabs seed from the feeder, finds a crack in wood to wedge the seed in and crack it open, these always do this upside down

Today is Aprils Birthday

Today is my wife Aprils birthday and wanted to share one of my favorite images of her, photo was taken at Nottawasaga Bluffs in fall of 2010

Taken with a 300mm lenses, and fair away from the background to get a shallow depth of field

Is it summer yet??

I miss the summer time, miss being able to stand on the deck without a winter coat, miss camping the most

I prefer to camp were there is no one else, or at least no one close by. We have our favorite spot, right on a lake, and although the area seems to get busier each year we normally get lucky and find at least one of our spots open. I have taken more photos in this area than I can count, I cant wait to get back.

I took this image one night around the quiet campfire, time exposed to show the fire, background light provided by the lantren, and what better than a Canadian camp chair to sit on

One of our trips I had the fishing buddies sit around the fire for a time exposure, had some wood on the fire that was providing some excellent sparks, I knew I had to grab my camera and catch the moment. Again I used the lantren to provide some back light in this shot

Early morning the fog rises off the lake as the day warms makes for some great photo opportunity, I used the trees to frame the upper part of the shot to draw eyes to the main scene in the image. I can almost here the loon and smell the trees when I look at this image

Until summer I will wait to hear the frogs at night - our yearly sign that spring and warmer weather is here

The New Freddys Photos

April has finished the new site for Freddys Photos

http://www.freddysphotos.com/index.html

Drove to Orillia

Today had to go to Orillia, I usually bring my camera when I go out

Window pics from a old barn in Coulson, Oro Medonte

 

Old run down shed,barn Colson, Oro Medonte

Gaggle of crows on a dead tree, Edgar, Oro Medonte