Week 23 - The ongoing quest for lightning

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I've been trying to get some good lightning photos for about 10 years now. Unfortunately I still haven't got anything good. A small storm rolled through last Thursday night so I headed out to see what I could find. I saw some good bolts on my drive out but by the time I got set up there wasn't much more than some flashes in the distance.

My main photo for this week was one of the last ones I took after the storm had passed. I added a second photo below, its the best one I got of a little lightning (just above the tree tops on both sides).

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On another note I finally bought a car, so my subject matter should improve a little as I now have a better means of getting out of the city, instead of relying on borrowing my parents van.

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Week 22

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With my 27th birthday passing yesterday, it's been a year now that I've had this blog going. It has changed a bit since my initial plan to post a photo everyday for a year, but I'm still at it. This week's photo is from a random journey I took driving around side roads just outside of Windsor. I couldn't tell where it is exactly though. I got a little lost in the process, but I enjoy that.

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Week 21

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I almost when to bed without posting my photo for this week. Not much interesting to say about it I guess. I've taken a lot of photos this past week but this is the only one I had edited and ready to go. Since my computer took about 5 minutes just to open this browser to do this, I'm not even going to try and open photoshop to get anything else.

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Week 20 - 100th post

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This is my 100th blog post since I started posting on here last year on my birthday. Just thought I'd celebrate that for a second before I get to my story.

So, a couple of weeks ago I was at work and got a call from one of the supervisors asking if I could work an upcoming Sunday shift. As I thought about it for a second, she added "its your weekend off." Weekend off? I thought. So I stalled long enough and she told me to think about it and get back to her.

I immediately ran to the back to check the schedule for that weekend. Turns out I had that Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday off. "Road Trip," said a voice in my head.

I ended up picking up that Sunday shift because I needed another shift off in order to work the Windsor Spitfires game. So I still had 3 solid days off. I worked Wednesday at 4am until noon. So when I got off I rented a car, packed it up and went to bed around 7pm in order to get an early start Thursday morning.

I was ready to leave by 6am. As I was on my way out the phone began to ring, it was work calling, presumably to see if I could work for someone who called in sick. I shot the phone the finger in a comedic fashion and slipped out the back door.

I didn't have much of a plan for where I was going. I just knew I was heading north (pretty much the only option, unless you're going to the states).

So, to make this quick, as I've already wrote more than I planned. I went as far as Wasaga Beach, zig zagging my way through back roads. I drove a total of 1600kms and got lost almost as many times as I wanted to.

I haven't even got to editing the photos yet, aside from these two. The first is a random barn on a sideroad that I came across in the brief break from pouring rain, snow and 60mph winds. I shot a bunch of this barn, but this one is made up of two different exposures. One I exposed for the sky, the other for the barn/grass. Then blended the two.

The second is a 5-photo panoramic. Aside from stitching the 5 photos together there's very minimal photoshop done. (Just levels, and unsharp mask).

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Week 19

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I don't have time for a long post, as I should be in bed already. But here's a quick shot from Saturday at Todd's book launch party for Major League Anxiety. Todd is on drums, jamming out some Weezer with Daniel Victor of Neverending White Lights.