Snapped a picture looking out over the experimental farm through this morning’s rolling fog. Those are trees and a little shed. No horizon line, though – just white meeting white.

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I’m building a slide-photography rig to be able to quickly capture a bunch of old family photos, but didn’t expect the inside of a PVC pipe to be so shiny. So my first few attempts produced some really fun swirly distortions that I thought were neat.

A good friend lent me his slide scanner, which does [...]

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Caught some deer out by the airport as we drove out to pick up Mom from work – and got a great panorama of Winnipeg while I was at it. Sorry if I’m reinforcing stereotypes – it’s not all fields, airports and grain elevators.

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I snapped some pictures of will’o’the’wisps tonight out in the rain.

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I couldn’t resist hopping off the bus at the Experimental Farm to snap a real-life example of a phyllotactic spiral. Then I missed the next bus, chasing bees around with my camera. I still managed to make it to work on time!

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I’ve been a big fan of “Pictory” since it started, a cool website full of interesting photos and stories loosely gathered around their theme of the month. Their topic this go-around is hard to stomach, though – literally. “Eat at Your Own Risk” presents a number of creatures I didn’t know existed (including the totally [...]

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Along the Rideau River just behind Carleton University, by the south point of Vincent Massey Park, you can often spot a pair of hideous deformed ducks swimming about. Life is cruel – they would have made a handsome set of swans.

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This little guy jumped out at us at Hog’s Back Park and begged to have his picture taken.

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Periodically (I think wind direction is the primary factor?) the Ottawa airport routes all the incoming air traffic directly over our house.  Because they’re coming down not far from here, most of them fly over with their gear down, well within waving altitude. I don’t mind the bit of noise they make – [...]

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A friend posted a link to a trendy new thing to do on flickr -  “The future of photography!” – an invention called the Cinemagraph. Here’s two of the better, more subtle ones from photographer Kevin Burg. They’re sortof like the photos in Harry Potter’s world.

Calling them a fancy name is disingenuous really, they’re just [...]

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