Wide 4

Wide 3

Wide 2

Walk through New West - a.k.a. Wide 1

Crater Lake teaser #2

Yes, it really is that blue.

Crater lake teaser

I need to streamline the photos a bit and select the 'winners' but I quite like this one

Borrowed lens test

I met up with Paul Friday night to borrow his 70-300mm VR lens because I'm thinking of 'making a change on the long end' and it's one of the options.

He was kind enough to let me play with the lens despite the slight drizzle (much appreciated Paul!)

The light was already fading when I left the house and I took a couple of quick shots with my 70-210 lens, for comparison:

That's 70mm f4.0 @ 1/40th sec hand held using ISO400. It was a not that easy to get a nice sharp shot :)

For you non-photographers, just ignore all the data after the images. I'm including it for the one or two people who look at this blog and shoot themselves :)


"Almost IR"

105mm f4.2 @ 1/50th sec ISO 400



Obligatory tin soldier shots to follow ;)

Chevrons

105mm f4.2 1/80th

After meeting Paul we swapped lenses, he wanted to try my Sigma 10-20mm and wandered around the Quay for a bit as the sun was setting.

Too many lines!

122mm f4.8 1/60th (VR was on in Normal mode for all shots with the 70-300)

Seeing double

270mm f5.6 1/320th

Portrait

70mm f4.5 1/125th

The man himself

70mm f4.5 1/40th

The Paddlewheeler at the Paddlewheeler

220mm f5.3 1/320th

River Adventures

135mm f4.8 1/320th

Cones

102mm f4.5 1/30th - railing supported, don't get too excited about VR performance or my hand-holding ability ;)

Sunset

122mm f4.8 1/640th

At this point Paul and I swapped back, I threw on the 10-20mm lens. Wow, that's a big change. Here is a photo from the same spot I took the one above from

10mm f5.6 1/30th

10mm is _really_ wide. I forget that when I haven't put the Sigma on in a while ;)

Not even looking

10mm f5.6 1/10th

Hand-holding at 1/10th of a second sounds wrong. Your brain rebels for a bit and goes "that didn't turn out".

After this Paul and I stopped off for some lasagna at Rivers Reach and a couple (ok a few) beer.

Good times!

Bjorn

English Bay Photowalk

After having some coffee I wandered over to English bay. I hadn't shot with my super-wide angle lens for a bit and decided to switch along the way :)

The man in the mirror



Down There?



Moss Macro



Tree bark



Worn



Under the bridge



4 degree Palms



(it was a pretty chilly day out :) )

Winter Beach



People and Pets keep out!



Some you may need to view larger for full effect. Just click on the image and you can see the album and run the slideshow full screen :)

Hope you had a great weekend.

Bjorn

Sunday, June 8

After going biking in the rain and mud of SFU and watching 4 hours of motorcycle racing after, I took a bit of a stroll.

Wedding



Killarney



Evening Beach



Beach Stairs



The end of spring



Larger photos available in the slideshow

Hope you had a good weekend.

Bjorn

UBC - May 7th

It was too nice to go to the gym, so I figured that UBC would be fairly empty with exams being over.

As always, I like taking pictures of pretty flowers, I just don't like looking at them. But I thought I'd post one shot up:




Applied Mathematics



Logs



Studious



The clock tower



Purpose



George



Why?



Protect!



Slideshow here

Thanks for looking.

Bjorn