So for the 2nd straight week the photo of the week was taken north of the border! We were driving along the highway from Montreal to Ottawa and the landscape was, well, pretty dull. It was green enough with an occasional farm, but more importantly, it was a rare occasion that I was not driving. I enjoy doing drive by shootings, with cameras that is. You never really know what you are going to get and I consider this photo a beautiful mistake going 100km per hour. The lighting just changed and I was zooming the Nikon 70-300 lens all the way out and just trying to get some silo shots. Well this is what happens when you continue to shoot through a sparse tree line while tracking the silos. The trees have turned into puffs of abstractness and the photo is more painterly. And yes, the window was rolled down. Enjoy it with a cup of coffee and start your week thinking just a little differently.
Author: Gabriel Biderman
D’oh!
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We’ve waited 20 years for this!
Ahhh, the Simpsons. Many a Sunday Nights have been spent making dinners with friends and family and watching America’s favorite family make fun of American families. Now 20 years later the Simpsons hit the big screen with their first motion picture. Do you have your ticket?
Well, I have mine!
A 2:45pm opening day ticket to the Simpsons Movie on 42nd street and a quick stop to the Kwik-E-Mart before the show is definitely in order.
Try turning yourself into a Simpsons character at www.simpsonizeme.com
Smell you later!
Canadian Photo of the Week (July 22-28)
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I’ve spent the last week in Canada touring Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto for B&H. I usually try to travel with the top of the line equipment but I had heard some good reviews on the latest Nikon 70-300 f4.5-5.6 VR lens that comes in at a modest price of $479. The VR or Vibration Reduction on this lens works really well and I was safely shooting at 1/60 second with the lens zoomed all the way out. This shot is also a perfect example of looking at all of your surroundings. I was with a couple of coworkers at the top of Cypress Mountain, which overlooks Vancouver. The sun started setting around 8:30pm, this shot was taken when I stopped shooting the city of Vancouver, and looked behind me at the mountain range. The beautiful pinks and purples were making their last gasp by 9:20pm and I zoomed in to make more of a selective landscape shot. It was a fantastic sunset which seemed to last forever and reminded me again why I love the west.
Jamie loves Christy
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To Jamie and Christy ~
A Toast, or as I like to call it,
a Blessing.
A blessing
on Christy and Jamie,
a blessing
on their love,
a blessing
on those of us gathered here,
a blessing
on those who are not.
It is Love we are celebrating
take a look around –
Christy and Jamie
have created this world called
Jamelot
with love, laughter, and a lot of hard work.
On 7 – 7 – 7,
the luckiest day of the century,
we are all truly blessed to celebrate you and your love!
Everyone please raise your glass as Jamie and Christy kiss 7 times!
Blue Whale Birthday
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94-feet-long and weighing in at 21,000 pounds, the blue whale model on display at the Museum of Natural History’s Milstein Hall of Ocean Life gives you the rare chance to actually stand under a life-size whale. Sculpted of fiberglass and polyurethane, it is the largest model of the largest creature that has ever lived on Earth. First constructed in 1969, and recently renovated in 2003 the whale is suspended in the hall at a single point to the roof trusses of the building!
Look Mom, no wires!
A lot of us are fascinated with the sea, it covers 2/3 of earth, yet we have explored about 5% of it. I know I’m fascinated with the ocean and I can barely swim!
A recent journey back to the Museum rejuvenated my fascination of dioramas and Big Blue here. As a child I always loved visiting the Museum of Natural History in New York with my parents and often dreamt of blue whales floating above me like a mobile. A good friend of mine, Angelia, often told me that one of her favorite things to do at the Museum was to sit under the blue whale, her spiritual animal, and just be at peace. The sounds of the ocean are all around you and the heavy blue lighting also make you feel, well, a little below sea level.
Now today just happens to be Angelia’s Birthday…I hope you have a whale of a day!
What’s your spiritual animal?