First off, let me say that this is not a rant or flame war on the use or not of High Dynamic Range (hdr). Hdr has its place in photography and it is hard to think that today could be without it. After all, today’s cameras almost all support a function called bracketing. Something we did manually on yesterday’s film cameras.
Bracketing was a fairly expensive business if you were shooting for yourself as an amateur. Even more, amateurs would need bracketing more than
The Devils Punchbowl in the Spirit Sands is magical place. It is a fairly exhausting trek to get there. Once you’re there, you want to stay, but you know that you’ll have to get ready to move again.
But before we leave, let’s go and take a closer look.
In southern Manitoba there is a desert. It’s not a real desert according to international standards, but it’s pretty dry year-round. Only in winter does it see some moisture. That’s also what disqualifies it from being a real desert.
On the far end of the Spirit Sands there is a spring with fresh water, flowing eventually into the river pictured above.
A few years ago I posted about Narcisse,MB, the world capital of Red Sided Garter snakes. At that time I guess we were not in the right season and we came back with only a few miserable snake pictures.
So I went back this year, and tried to pay attention to the calendar for them. So, this time I was luckier. The snakes were
In the last few years I have taken about 12,000 pictures in Manitoba. Lots of these pictures include the sky and some of them are all about the sky. There is always something interesting with a sky.
Be it an interesting cloud, colour or just the light. This time I thought I’d create a mosaic of sky photos I have to see how these compare with other people’s sky photos in other places in the world. So, if you