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RadMan

While I was taking shots (see Please Login or Register to see the link. post) I saw an opportunity to try and take a nice shot of my wife.

This is what I ended up with… critique and criticism is welcome!

… is the highway between Horseshoe Bay (North Vancouver) and Whistler, BC. Late in the September Christine and I took a little weekend getaway in Whistler. We’ve tried to make it an annual thing for us. We usually stay at the Whistler Pinnacle (although quite frankly I feel the hotel has been gradually heading downhill since we first started going up there.) Every time we go we also make a point of having a (in my case) steak dinner at Hy’s Steakhouse.

So about once a year I can say that I’ve had a really good steak!

Either way. Here are a couple of shots I took of the mountain landscape between Squamish and Shannon Falls, not too far outside North Van. I’d say my favourite is the last one. It can be really powerful country up that way!

… thought I would tool around a little with our Sigma Macro Lens (allowing me to get closer than usual). Just a couple of fun shots.

The one thing I WAS working on though was using the rear LCD screen’s “Live View” feature to try to do a far more precise job of focusing on the exact point I desired. Often, critical focus work requires a manual touch the AUTO just can’t compete with. Unfortunately, wearing glasses and having just generally poor eyesight, I have found that I have great difficulty through the optical viewfinder determining where the exact point of focus is.

SO… little effort and I feel I’ve managed to nail where the points of focus are:

The first are a couple of (seemingly) wooden statues that we have with a Thanksgiving theme. We got them at HomeSense (O_O – ya, I know…) of all places. We thought they were kind of neat as a table decoration.

The second is a collectible Disney statue which consists of a new Mickey looking at himself in a mirror and seeing the old Mickey. The effect is achieved by having two statues of Mickey (old and new) on opposite sides of a transparent plastic “mirror”. The effect works quite well and the piece is actually quite nice (even for someone that doesn’t have Disney fetish).

… like it or not, I’ve got quite a backlog of these shots, so too bad! Here they come. This time, more of Siam and Patches.

Apparently cats are lazy creatures (kinda like me!) Siam was feeling the need to stretch, and while Patches was contemplating climbing up onto the roof, she had decided it wasn’t worth her while.