Wow, february eh. I think someone isn't being fair dinkum with me...

I did try to post something a month ago or so, but then my other half yelled at me for stealing all the bandwidth trying to upload a photo when he was trying to play NHL 11, so I stopped.

I think this might've been the photo. I was at home one morning, and like a lot of nights, I didn't sleep much past 6am. In this case it was a good thing, these retards were outside jack hammering around 730, I looked out the window to check it out and saw a typical male-occupation-oriented situation of 5 guys standing around watching one guy work. So I took a picture.



I see no workers, just a lot of tools strewn everywhere.


Anyways, its Easter monday, I've concluded I hate holidays more than ever, but I did make it over to Saturna, and within a half hour of getting there some amazing light crept in, so I went on a shooting spree. (Something about that makes me nervous to leave it there, but I'm going to leave it, we'll see if anything happens)

So I crept around the garden with my camera, and mostly shot photos of the dog because he's fuzzy, and catches backlight beautifully.

Ozzie, a cockapoo-sheltie border collie cross.

I got about 2 good photos with the little monster, I almost got a couple other good ones, but everytime I put my camera to my face he'd start barking.

And then there were flowers...

It's been awhile since I've taken pictures of flowers, and I don't normally like to, cause everyone else does, so if I do, it has to be different somehow. I do like what I come up with when I point my 50mm at flowers though, cause the lens has a very short depth of field, and its fun to play with textures and pick your focal point out while leaving everything else as a dreamy haze. Bokeh when used properly is fantastic, but as the consequence with so many people getting ahold of cameras like mine and not studying photos and theory, bokeh is abused. I really will support anyone who wants to get into photography, but they have to be willing to spend some time. Its like me and my guitar, I don't subject people to it cause I'm not good enough, but I enjoy it, so I keep it to myself. I'm too much of a perfectionist I guess.

I know I've just vomitted a heap of things onto this for the first time in months, but I have one more, its a video. Its my first time lapse! I planted some calendula, and then got sick for 2 weeks and had to take about that much time off work (it sucked), so I took pictures every half hour for a few days of my calendula seedlings popping up through the soil.

So until next week, hopefully. . . adieu.