Sunset at English Bay, Vancouver BC
Posted: May 26, 2012 Filed under: fine art photography, jmeyersforeman, landscape photography, photography, places, street photography, sunset, travel, travel photography | Tags: boats, British Columbia, Canada, English Bay, False Creek, photo, photograpy, Stanley Park, Sunset, tourist attraction, Vancouver 2 Comments »
English Bay, Vancouver BC, a great place to watch the sunset. Of course there is so much more to do on or near the beach in downtown Vancouver. Besides the ususal beach activities, like swimming and sunbathing, the seawall runs all the way around English Bay from Stanley Park to False Creek and is used by runners, walkers, cyclists, and rollerblading for recreation and commuting. Not far off the beach, great restaurants, shopping, art and people watching.
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Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver BC
Posted: May 25, 2012 Filed under: architecture, bridge, jmeyersforeman, landscape photography, photography, places, street photography, sunset, travel | Tags: Burrard Inlet, cloudy, grey, Lions Gate Bridge, North Shore, photo, photography, Suspension bridge, Travel and Tourism, Vancouver 2 Comments »
One of our favorite places to visit when in Vancouver is Stanely Park, more specifically Prospect Point with this magnificant view of the Lions Gate Bridge and the Burrard Inlet. A suspension bridge that connects the City of Vancouver to the North Shore and major landmark of the city. Yesterday was a cloudy rainy grey day, and I used a long exposure just before sunsest to show the traffic moving across the bridge.
Bridge over spring waters, Cochrane ranch, Cochrane Alberta,
Posted: May 23, 2012 Filed under: Alberta, brides, graffiti, jmeyersforeman, landscape photography, people, photography | Tags: bridges, Cochrane Alberta, Cochrane Ranch, landscape, photo, photography, spring, tourist attraction 8 Comments »
Lady n’ Lace
Posted: May 17, 2012 Filed under: black and white photography, Calgary Portrait Photography, fine art photography, people | Tags: Art, calgary area, Calgary Portrait Photographer, Hobbies, Lace, light, photo, photography, Shadows, shawl, studio photography, style Leave a comment »
Instead of a lady in red I have a lady n’ lace. I couldn’t really say “in” lace because there really isn’t enough lace to be “in” .
I have often read that in order to learn our craft, be it painting or photographer we should study the masters, taking my inspiration from the Shawl Project, and photographers Ginni Savalli and Jeff Klingler I wanted to study light, or more precisely one light in portrait and studio photography. It was their work that most inspiring for me, and I am looking forward to experimenting and learning more. I think something like this in high-key would also be very interesting. or maybe a red background and red shawl?
If you know anyone in the Calgary area who is interested in sitting for photos and helping with this study let me know.
Andrea, black and white portraits
Posted: May 8, 2012 Filed under: black and white photography, Calgary Portrait Photography, people, photography, portrait photography | Tags: Black & White, black and white portraits, Dubrovnik, models, people, photo, photography, portrait, square format 3 Comments »
Andrea was so great to work with, natural candid portraits. Here she was under a archway, with just a sliver of light across her face, she knew exactly how to work with the light. With a beautiful young lady comfortable in front of the camera, it was easy to get some great portraits. I decided I like the square format for this image.
Calgary Peace Bridge, in black and white
Posted: May 4, 2012 Filed under: black and white photography, bridge, Calgary Alberta, fine art photography, jmeyersforeman, photography, places, street photography | Tags: black and white photography, Bow River, Calgary, Fisheye lens, horizon, lines, Low-angle shot, Peace Bridge, photo, photography, square format 12 Comments »
I had a few comments about the bridge yesterday, some suggested the image might look good in black and white, so I thought I would give it a try. What do you think? I like the lines and shadows, they become the subject as much as anything. While making changes to the image I also thought I would try out the square format. Yes, the images is square, measured by the computer, my personal measuring tape cannot be trusted! I think because I kept the horizon low, and the lines at the top seem to be expanding as they get closer to the top of the frame the image has the illusion of height. The fisheye lens used at a low angle has added to the illusion. Let me know what you think, colour vs black and white, regular horizontal format v square format. I don’t think there is a right or wrong, it depends largely on the purpose of the image, and the story being told, but I would like to hear what you think.
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Hugging Pine Trees…….
Posted: May 2, 2012 Filed under: Calgary Alberta, Calgary Photographer, jmeyersforeman, photography, places | Tags: Fisheye lens, group hug, Haiku, hugging, Optics, photo, photography, pine trees, poetry, sunday, wide angle lens 3 Comments »
Sunday, we went for a walk, it was a beautiful spring day, and as usual I had my camera with me. This time I decided to take with me, and use only my fish-eye lens. I like to work with one lens for a while it helps to see things differently and understand how that lens works in different situations. Here I was laying on the ground in amongst a group of pine trees. The ultra wide optics causes some distortion around the edges give the illusion that the trees are in a football huddle, or group hug!
I sit here looking at the photo and think there should be a great haiku poem about the hugging pines but can’t get my head into it this morning, how about you, does this image spark poetry in you. if so let me kow…………
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camera collection
Posted: May 1, 2012 Filed under: black and white photography, fine art photography, still life photography | Tags: baby brownie, Brownie, Camera, collection, gift, hawkeye brownie, High-key lighting, inheritance, photo, photography, still life 3 Comments »
I have had the light table set up with a high key lighting for a while experimenting with the light. I think I am just about done with it now, I will have to try something new soon. Here is a small sample of my camera collection. Three of these are old brownies, three of the cameras my mother gave me, they are not the same three!
The camera on the far left is a baby brownie that my grandmother had as a young mother. The next camer is a Brownie Hawkeye that belonged to my mother-in-law, and was given to me after she passed away. It had not been used in years I cleaned it up, and have shot a couple of rolls of film it’s beautiful. The other two camers were gifts, my mother loves garage sales, and occassionally she comes across something she know I would love to put on the shelf. I don’t know how she does it!
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Happy Holidays to one and all!
Posted: December 22, 2011 Filed under: black and white, black and white photography, fine art photography | Tags: 2012, black and white photo, black and white photography, Christmas and holiday season, christmas images, Happy holiday Greetings, Happy Holidays, photo, photography, Santa 4 Comments »
Happy Holidays, Santa Greeting from jmeyersforeman
I wanted to take this time to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season, I hope Santa is good to you, and that all your wishes, dreams and aspirations come to fruition in 2012. I am taking the next 10 days off from blogging. As usual I will have my camera with me always, and if I see you I hope to get a great photo of our time together!
take care and I hope to see and hear from you in 2012.
Coffee and almond croissant, the perfect breakfast…….
Posted: November 3, 2011 Filed under: food, photography, still life photography | Tags: almond croissant, breakfast, cappuccino, coffee, croissant, food, photo, photography, still life photography, wordpress photo challenge 22 Comments »
okay this might not be the perfect breakfast in a nutritional sense, but there are mornings that it is essential……….somedays it is the reason to get out of bed and go on with the day.
wordpress photo challenge – breakfast.
