Monday, March 22, 2010

Tuffy's Tail

   On March 10th pretty much our entire house meandered out to the ranch at Cochrane for the annual trimming. This is when the ferrier class from Olds College gets to come practice their trimming techniques on the horses while exposing us to their inflated ideas about well behaved horses. In any case, it was fun listening to these folks, even more fun catching the horses and of course, a great photo op! I wanted to try a few of the photos in sepia but for some reason I never like my sepia shots like others. Instead, I stuck with good ole' black n' white!

   Here we have Tuffy's fat, white bum as a background with his tail stuck in the fence as the focal point. Black and White didn't change this shot much since Tuffy's white and the fence is dark... but still, it brought out good contrast! This is a shot I'm submitting to the Calgary Stampede Western Showcase. We shall see how it stands up next to other photos!



Monday, March 8, 2010

An Unknown Mountain

An unknown mountain just south of Saskatchewan Crossing on the Icefield Parkway (Hwy 93) in Jasper National Park. I played tourist on this on and just pulled over on the side of the road and jumped out of Georgie (my truck). I like the lighting and cloud coverage of the shot. It's one of many from the day trip Sara and I took up to Jasper and back around via the trunk road, back to Banff. It was an awesome, albeit long day, that was a refreshing change of mountains and great opportunities for more photos that you're sure to see posted on here!