Dritvik Elephant Foot

Dritvik Elephant Foot, a photo by Pantheroux on Flickr.

Here's an oldie, but a goodie. Taken on a black sand beach called Dritvik on the Snaefellnes peninsula in Iceland. These rocks were interesting in real life, but only came to life through the camera lens when I brought out the wide angle.

So far my experiment with posting photos to the blog from Flickr is working. The photos no longer appear in a public Picasa album, which is good. The downside - I think Flickr automatically crops the photos to square... so in some cases the composition is messed up (as with my gooseberries). I also have to log into the blog to tag the photos and reformat my text.

I have taken ~100 new photos in the past few weeks (some long exposures of Ottawa at night, and some shots on the Jack Pine Trail). Unfortunately, I can't upload them until my hard drive issues are fixed.

Five

Five, a photo by Pantheroux on Flickr.

I have unfortunately just been afflicted by a hard drive crash. With frequent backups, I have only lost a handful of photos. Unfortunately the lost ones include some of my recent favorites like my long exposure gooseberry shots.

I go stir crazy over the winter. I hate cold weather and don't have much patience for ice and snow. Graem bought me some cut flowers to photograph, and while sitting in front of the computer munching gooseberries, it occurred to me that they might also make good photo subjects.

I wanted to take long exposures by candlelight, but it was harder than it looked. I wanted directional lighting, yet the falloff from candlelight is so abrupt that I had to bring the gooseberries so close to the candles I was worried about them catching fire...not to mention getting the candles in the frame. I ended up with 2 groups of 5 candles each, one off to camera left, and the other to the right of, slightly behind the gooseberries. I was pretty happy with some of my results. I still have the edited JPEGs, but unfortunately with the hard drive crash, my RAW images are lost.

Forgotten

Forgotten, a photo by Pantheroux on Flickr.

This is currently the most viewed photo in my Flickr photostream. Taken in spring 2009 in Bents, SK with a Holga Toy Camera. The Holga is the perfect camera for photographing a ghost town. This is another test post... still learning how to post from Flickr to my blog.

Pantheroux's photostream

Pantheroux's photostream on Flickr.

I haven't posted here recently. I haven't had a chance to take many photos, and I'm still going through a bit of angst trying to figure out the optimal method for displaying my photos.

In the interim, I have created a Flickr profile. I'm supposed to be able to post photos from Flickr to my blog, but it will take a bit of figuring out. This post is mainly an experiment.