I have way to many photos backed up, so its time to publish some. These are some pictures from my urban adventures. The Army Base is being leveled and turned into a housing community. The Federal building is undergoing a de-asbestos and update. The General Hospital is undergoing a renovation and conversion into living quarters, probably condos.

Enjoy!

General Hospital

Federal Building

Army Base

I was reading a blog post from Jeremy Brooks
about a man who threaten legal action because his photo was taken. I have had some issues doing video work a few years back of a lady who said she was in witness protection and that she wanted the tape back.

Its important to know your rights, there is a good article at Photojojo on The Ten Legal Commandments of Photography. Read thought it, and make sure you are abiding by the Law.
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Today i updated the gallery to reflect some of hte images that have been posted in thewonderingphotographer.com. I also have cuple hundred photos to add in sets as well as other images that need to be sorted for the photo blog as well as the gallery. On top of all that i have some RAW files to go through and develop that have been sitting in my to do folder for months now.

Lots to come.

I recently created two new Panorama images, one is a old building in Edmonton that i’m told my great grandfather used to own. the other is a sun rise from the school field in front of my place.

Check them out here.

I took this photo a few weeks ago and forgot to post it. Aiden had fallen a sleep on his couch pillow while we were watching TV.

I recently opened my PhotoBlog to the public and noticed after i uploaded some 95 images that they were all visible to the public, this was a problem since i wanted to have them display one day after the other.

At the moment pixelpost does not support this feature, although after looking around in the code i can see that it should be coming out very shortly.

For the time being I created a Addon that allows you to select any images you want and then cast them into the future, removing them from the public view as well as the archives or any other pages until the day comes when the dates match up.

Remember to log out of the admin panel otherwise all your images will be visible in the main image page.

I decided to modify my Pixelpost administration page to make it look a little nicer, as well as adding a fixed width, working at 1920×1200 on a site that is 90% the width of a 24″ screen involves a lot of mousing around.

How to install:
locate the Pixepost Admin folder on your webserver.
Rename “admin_index.css” to admin_index.css.original so you wont loose the original CSS file.
Next upload the new “admin_index.css”

I was startled to see some blue pixels in the upper left quarter of a bunch of images that were predominantly longer exposures anything over a second. I thought it might have been dust or something, so after some inspection and testing i found out that the blue pixels would show up even with the lens cap on, so unless i had some glowing dust in there the CCD was most likely the cause. I was glad to hear that the Canon warranty depot is only a few hours away and the store i bought it at, London Drugs would take care of everything for me. My expected turnaround should be 3-4 weeks.

So until them i am camera less.

I think every one who has taken any pictures that are blurry has thought at some point that they actually look neat. this is nothing new to me. I used to have a lot of streaks in the sky and all sorts of running around and crazy light photos. so its only fitting that i put some up.

Yesterday i bought the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II Lens i and after some consideration and comparison against the f/1.4 it became clear that the f/1.8 was mush sharper. the construction however is a plastic body so I’m not sure how long it will hold up. The price however at $109 cnd was unbeatable.

you can have a look at a full review on the lens as well as many other Canon and Sigma lenses at The Digital Picture.

Have a look at some of the sample photos.
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This is the last of the latest update to the gallery, there are many more images to look at. This is just a skimming.

Have a look at the Gallery.

Its hard sorting and uploading photos now, i have been taking a lot more, and categorizing them is begging to become a task in its self.

last night was a full moon, and i had tried many times to take a picture of the moon with my film SLR. I never really got a pleasing shot. That was until now. It is much easier to get a good shot of the moon. I tried the Sunny f/16 rule, i don’t want to get to much into that as i didn’t have a lot of success with film or digital. If you would like to learn about it check Wikipedia.

I however learned later that its better to get a photo of the moon later at night, at least when its higher in the sky.

The first shot is some atmosphere distortion being it wasn’t to far above the horizon.

The second shot is a Half Moon but has much more detail in the craters since the sun light came from the right.
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I snapped this pick while walking between offices, I thought it was neat with all the rusty staples and weathers paper.

I’m considering starting a photo a day section, so if any one knows a good word press plug in that will do the job please let me know.