Carpe Lumen Photoblog» Carpe Lumen – Photo of the Day

Is Love Dead?

PhotoBear — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:31:45 +0000

You’ll have to decide the answer to the question yourself. Processed to give an aged, 60s-style film look.

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Focal Length:35mm | Shutter speed:1/320 | Aperture:ƒ/4
Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi | Shooting Date: April 12, 2010, 6:46 pm

Country Laneway

PhotoBear — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:27:06 +0000

This is the entrance road to a nearby conservation area this spring. I wanted to go in and take pictures in the area, but the gate is closed this year and it is too far for me to walk – it’s about a kilometre and a half to the marsh that this road leads to.

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Shooting Details:

Focal Length:105mm | Shutter speed:1/250 | Aperture:ƒ/8
Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi | Shooting Date: April 12, 2010, 6:25 pm

Seniority

PhotoBear — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:22:02 +0000

Believe it or not, this is right across the road from “Big Red“, the barn from a few days back. It might even be owned by the same people.

I played around with sepia and some other settings to make this picture a little more suited to the character of the barn.

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Shooting Details:

Focal Length:73mm | Shutter speed:1/400 | Aperture:ƒ/8
Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi | Shooting Date: April 12, 2010, 6:16 pm

Sploosh

PhotoBear — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:32:19 +0000

Waves splash over the rocks as the sun sets.

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Shooting Details:

Focal Length:105mm | Shutter speed:1/320 | Aperture:ƒ/5.6
Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi | Shooting Date: April 11, 2010, 6:22 pm

April Flowers

PhotoBear — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:22:49 +0000

Tiny blooms just beginning to emerge from the forest floor.

If April showers bring May flowers, I’m not sure what April flowers bring?

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Hey Bud

PhotoBear — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:38:05 +0000

Another semi-macro shot, using a 36mm extension tube. Tree buds, just about to burst forth.

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Shooting Details:

Focal Length:105mm | Shutter speed:1/500 | Aperture:ƒ/4.5
Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi | Shooting Date: April 11, 2010, 6:04 pm

Big Red

PhotoBear — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:16:11 +0000

Every time I pass this barn, especially in spring when it contrasts with the green of the grass, I want to take a picture of it. I finally did!

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Shooting Details:

Focal Length:48mm | Shutter speed:1/400 | Aperture:ƒ/8
Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi | Shooting Date: April 12, 2010, 6:15 pm

Sea-n-Sky

PhotoBear — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:26:45 +0000

Actually, it’s Lake Ontario, not the sea. Unless you want to count that as an inland, freshwater sea.

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Shooting Details:

Focal Length:65mm | Shutter speed:1/1000 | Aperture:ƒ/8
Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi | Shooting Date: April 11, 2010, 6:11 pm

Sappy Bud

PhotoBear — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:22:47 +0000

Semi-macro closeup of tree bud, shot using 20mm extension tube (or was it 36? Ack!) The tiny droplet of resin was interesting, I wish I’d had better light available.

That bud is about the length of your thumbnail, by the way.

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Shooting Details:

Focal Length:105mm | Shutter speed:1/500 | Aperture:ƒ/4.5
Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi | Shooting Date: April 11, 2010, 6:02 pm

DripDrop

PhotoBear — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:22:21 +0000

Lucky timing – caught a drop falling.

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Shooting Details:

Focal Length:105mm | Shutter speed:1/320 | Aperture:ƒ/4.5
Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi | Shooting Date: April 11, 2010, 5:49 pm

Arc

PhotoBear — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:00:58 +0000

Lightning on August 20, 2009

A different shot of the lightning that came with yesterday’s storm.

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Zap

PhotoBear — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:59:12 +0000

Lightning on August 20, 2009

A major storm system hit Ontario today, causing what were possibly tornados in a town called Durham, and killing one person. We braced ourselves for the worst tonight, but other than a spectacular light show and a brief downpour, it was over before it got to us.

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Shooting Details:

Focal Length:18mm | Shutter speed:50 Seconds | Aperture:ƒ/8
Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi | Shooting Date: August 21, 2009, 2:44 am

Scrub-a-Dub-Dub

PhotoBear — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:00:27 +0000

19ish-day-old gerbil babies, cleaning their faces

A group shot of our litter of strange critters that shouldn’t be… washing their faces. Eyes should be open soon.

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Gerbil Babies

PhotoBear — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:55:57 +0000

Baby gerbils, about 19 days old - the one in the foreground is grooming

How we came to have baby gerbils is one of the strangest of the strange stories – one of our MALE gerbils seemed to spontaneously change sexes after living with several other males for 2 years, and suddenly produced these offspring. Can’t explain it, other than to think perhaps the mother was a hermaphrodite and lost her boy bits when some of the older gerbils died off and their survival was apparently threatened. Weird, but a happy result.

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Streak

PhotoBear — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:11:45 +0000

Meteor trail during the 2009 Perseids

For the first time, I managed to capture a few meteors in photos tonight that were actually clear enough to be seen. This one conveniently passed nearly through the centre of the frame, and only needed a minor crop to make it presentable. Of course, image quality is always an issue but tonight the conditions were frustrating – VERY high humidity misting up the atmosphere, and the moon was very bright, causing light pollution.

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Accumulus

PhotoBear — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:00:40 +0000

Clouds gathering over a cornfield

More clouds from the storms yesterday.

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