taken at the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre near Midland, Ontario, Canada with a Pentax K10D, image altered in Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 using the clarify function.





Althought part of my reason for buying the Pentax was its ability to use old manual focus lenses I have found myself using almost exclusively the FA 28-80 f3.5/4.5 lens. Not terribly wide but very useful for general purpose photography.  Some days it does seem a heavy rig to tote, in which case I will take my tiny Sony or my Nikon Coolpix, especially if I have no specific plans to shoot and am just taking a camera along in case a UFO lands beside my car.

1975 I took this photograph and the other day found the old print and scanned it. The Hog Bay CPR  Trestle bridge was built in 1908 and torn down in 1978. On Georgian Bay near Port McNicholl, Ontario.  Over 2000 feet long.

magical photos by Lauren Bentley - found her work on flickr and then found her website, dreamy, surreal, vivid, splendid....

purchased one of these and am getting used to it.... a heavy solid DSLR, very similar in feel to my old PZ-1...I have been mainly shooting in jpeg format to begin with.  Using some old lenses of mine from previous Pentax bodies: FA 28-80  and 100-300, a manual 50mm f1.4 M lens and a Vivitar 19-28mm zoom lens.

I like the camera enormously. More comments to come.

Second Life is a virtual world with a full economy. Part of the economy is art and culture, many art galleries. At the Exposure Fine Art Gallery, real world and Second Life (SL) photographer PJ Trenton is showing for sale photos he has taken in SL and  Real Life (RL).  One interesting function in SL is the ability to take snapshots. Trenton's work is not snapshot quality. He is a fine artist. He has taken an original approach: instead of photographing the beautiful simulations of Second Life, and there are many, he has found the simulations of urban decay, the mean streets. He has a good eye for composition and he has converted his colour photos to black and white which admirably suits the gritty city subjects he has found. Trenton is a Canadian photographer living in eastern Ontario.

Part of the show is a group of fine colour portraits made in SL.

Highly recommended.

To access you will need a fast PC, download the second life software to your computer and set up a free account.

The location in Second Life is at Exposure Fine Art Gallery, Bluehound (158, 18, 115)

the website for Second Life is the link below:

see the work of David Hemmings

I am lucky where I live, on the shores of Georgian Bay. These were all taken at dawn very close to my home. I post them to show some variations on the pretty standard and hackneyed subject of dawn.









This last black and white shot was taken on Sept. 9, 2007 - Nikon 5700 on a tripod with ball head.

I bought a Canon G2 several years ago. I still use it and find it capable of making excellent photographs. It is a 4 megapixel camera.  Two features I like especially are the f2.0 lens (can help make a shallower DOF photo possible) and the low ISO setting possible (50 ISO).

small green dragon dog toy:



Saturation set to plus and exposure compensation set to -1/3 (I keep the exposure compensation for almost all shots to keep the colours rich and to avoid blowing out highlights).

Shakespeare the wonder dog on the back deck:




Shot in black and white in the camera --
glass left out before a thunderstorm:



close up of Crown Royal bottle:

found a group on flickr where flickrfolk post photos of what they carry in their pockets - interesting stuff

my stuff :


[photo made with my Nikon5700, yes I do have three batteries]

the link gets you to the pool