smoke from the forest fires up north hung heavy over the city this afternoon, casting a surreal orange glow across the sky.
this photo is the 1000th one posted to mindfulseeing.com
no more band-aids
smoke from the forest fires up north hung heavy over the city this afternoon, casting a surreal orange glow across the sky.
this photo is the 1000th one posted to mindfulseeing.com
It looked like it’d be another race home before a severe thunderstorm hit. funnel clouds were spotted northwest of the city, but nothing at my house (yet…)
as I was riding home, I could see a system moving in, with many rainy squalls and distant lightning. it kept me pushing hard, despite the headwind, and I managed to get home in record time – about 2 minutes before the monsoon hit my house.
I wasn’t thrilled with how today’s @dailyshoot shot turned out, so I tried a retake using RAW and a higher ISO/tighter aperture to help sharpen things up a bit. I think my 75-300mm lens just may be the softest damned lens ever made. Lens viagra?
the eastern edge of the Rockies, including Banded Peak, as seen from our house in NW Calgary.
the metal facade of the ICT building always reminds me of the Monolith from 2001. I wonder if it makes people smarter…
the world famous Alberta Blue Sky, one of the few redeeming things about living here through the 8 month winter.
Lightning strikes just west of Calgary as an afternoon storm rolls in from the foothills.
I didn’t have a tripod with me, so used a barbed wire fence post as a monopod, and used the remote trigger to set off longish exposures.