It’s long been a goal of mine to grace the pages of the NASA website “Astronomy Photo of the Day”. Last week – I achieved that goal and was granted the page for the 20th of July. The day was a great one. My stepfather celebrated a milestone birthday in style, it was the 42nd [...]
The talks at Quexa 1.0 went great as I mentioned, so please – enjoy!
I’m now posting some of my photography at my Tumblr blog. Because of it’s architecture, I can queue up photos and hope to post 2 or 3 new images every day. I just have to keep up shooting them! I’ll still be hosting a few here – but the regular updates will go there. Visit [...]
Well – 2011 is starting to shape up a little. The trees in Alberta are budding and green, the grass is returning (except where the dog has destroyed it, and the mice have destroyed it, and the snow mold has destroyed it) and I’m set to mow tonight. The skies are blue, the clouds are [...]
Rocking the Time Lapse Shooting time lapse video has been made a piece of cake thanks to the DSLR. Here is a quick how-to on how to shoot time lapse video with your DSLR. 1. Setup Setting up for the timelapse is a surprisingly complicated affair. No – it’s not difficult in the intellectual sense, [...]
So – with my recent (ok, lifelong but only recently realized) interest in Astronomy, astrophotography, and video of course, I’ve come to find that there are a few limitations to my ‘getting long in the tooth’ EOS Rebel XTi. I’ve had a few things that really bug me about the camera. Limited ISO Coming from [...]
This has been a hell of a year. We started on a crappy foot, with little and big ones starting to get sick around January 5th. It’s now March, and we’ve collectively not been healthy yet. We are however on the mend, and looking toward March, April, and Spring just around the bend. Which brings [...]
IMG_4745_Dodge Originally uploaded by ‘Scratch’ Courney Milne (http://www.courtneymilne.com) passed away just a few short weeks ago. I haven’t thought much about him for some time. During my formative years behind a camera lens, he occupied some of my attention while devouring articles and publications on exposure, composition, and the art of photography. Though his passing [...]