Such excitement as the Olympic torch run passes through Oshawa on December 16th, 2009. Darryl and I braved the bone chilling cold and flurries to witness the historic event not once, but twice. We met 2 of the relay runners in North Oshawa and then watched the final runner, local TV & radio personality, Dan Carter, bring the flame to the outdoor celebration downtown 2 1/2 hours later.
Dispite the fact I had long since lost all feeling in my fingers and toes, I enjoyed watching the flame pass within a couple of feet of me and seeing the sheer joy in the eyes of the runners as they passed with torches held proudly aloft.
They're finally ready! Hot off the press! 2010 Photographic Calendars featuring the stunning images of Paula & Darryl Kennedy.
$1 from the sale of each calendar will be donated to the John Nelson Moosedog Rescue Fund (http://www.elkhoundrescue.org/).
Each 8 1/2" x 11" (closed dimensions) spiral bound calendar is $15.00 CDN + shipping.
Sample images below:
Miss January by Paula Kennedy
May Lightening Storm by Paula Kennedy
Bee on Cone Flower by Darryl Kennedy
Northern Cardinal by Darryl Kennedy
Limited quantity, order yours today!! Send an email to paula@remember-me.ca if you are interested in purchasing one, including your mailing address & we will respond with payment due including shipping & payment instructions.
Clinic number one is done for the season and Darryl and I are off to an excellent start for the season with 3 honorable mentions each and one best in category for our division for me!
These are my images - Darryl will have to get off his behind and blog his own. :)
This image is an HDR of a sunset this past summer taken just north of Oshawa and was the best pictorial image in my division!!
Darryl and I are both getting acquainted with new cameras right now, so I have high hopes for our images this season!
A few years ago while in Lindsay, I was fortunate enough to come across a red tail hawk hunting by the roadside and even more fortunate that I had my camera with me at the time. I got what I thought at the time were once in a lifetime (for me) shots of it hunting, catching and eating a vole no more than 15' from me.
Today was proof that lightening strikes the same place twice.
Although not in Lindsay this time, I stumbled across another hungry hunting red tail hawk along the side of the road and was lucky enough to have my camera with me again.
Like the scariest of roller coasters, learning curves can be daunting... but the sense of accomplishment at the moment of enlightenment is not unlike the exhilaration upon conquering a terrifying roller coaster.
Today, I am at an SEO 1 day Bootcamp seminar. I've spent a great deal of time over the last year or so getting educated about websites and search engine optimization, but it continues to amaze me just how much there is to learn about this topic
Just when I think I'm at the crest of a hill on the learning curve, the track levels out and there's another impossibly high hill ahead...
To check out some of the sites I maintain, in addition to this photography website, please visit:
All three are very much works in progress and I'm always looking for ideas, suggestions and feedback from viewers on any of the sites. Something you'd like to see? Broken link? Please let me know - feedback is always appreciated!
Ask any of my friends or family what my hobby is and you'll get some puzzled looks and varied responses...I'm not one to stick with something for long, but when I get something in my head, I dive into it with both feet and a hearty "Hell yes!"
I've long claimed to have the attention span of a gnat so it's no wonder I've enjoyed many hobbies over the years, some I still occasionally dabble in...from collecting various items (the most extensive and expensive of which was a 2+ yr craze with beanie babies), clay sculpture, soft sculpture, painting, car enthusiast, and now, photography.
To be fair, photography has been part of my job now for nearly 10 years and a growing passion for much of that, which is really quite amazing - considering photography was the single component of my graphic design eduction in college that I abhorred most...could be because as a broke college student, some weeks the choice was gas to commute to school or pay to get photos printed for an assignment. More often than not, I was present in class, but had no photos to submit for an assignment. It was natural that I would grow to resent that.
Fast forward 15 years later and with the widespread availability of relatively inexpensive digital media, I can click the shutter to my hearts content at a negligible cost. Of course there's a cost, but I won't go into that now - that's not where I'm heading with this posted.
Photography and time travel - whatever could I mean?
Well, time lapse photography, which I am on the edge of diving into with both feet, having dipped my big toe in by doing my first 3 time lapse movies this weekend. They are clumsy efforts, at best, with much room for improvement...which will come with practice, research and the addition of a few additional bits and pieces of equipment.
The biggest negative, I guess, about time lapse photography, is the gross amount of time it takes to create anything of any substantial length. At 20 frames per second (fps), which is actually on the slow side, if you can believe it, this 45 second video took 1.5 hrs to shoot. And I don't have a cable release, a timer or shoot tethered to a laptop...approximately 1500 images...all created by me pushing the shutter release every 3 seconds. Is it any small wonder my index finger is a little tender today? This video is one of three shot yesterday - there was a sunrise, one of afternoon clouds and this sunset. Over 4000 images yesterday alone. My 9 month old Canon 50D rolled over 10,000 shots and climbing yesterday. Whew!
Not sure how long this fascination will last. Given my history, it will be brief, so enjoy while it while you can!
Welcome September and the beginning of the 2009/2010 Camera Club Season is upon us.
Next week, I have 2 club meetings, our Port Perry club has it's September meeting Tuesday and our first Oshawa club meeting of the season is Wednesday night.
Tuesday, we are having a workshop on composition, which is really the one and only thing I retained from photography in college - most likely because I also paint and composition is as important in one as it is in the other so I've continued to use it through the years. If there's one thing I struggle with in composition, it's creatively breaking the rules...
I'm excited about the Oshawa club this year. I'm a Team leader for one of the six groups for photo essays this season. We have the opportunity to complete five photo essays over the course of the season and have 2 well under way. We have a meeting coming up on the 13th to review where we are at on our assignments.
Our topics this year are street photography, architecture, Windreach Farm, weather & portraiture and this is in addition to our four clinics this season which are close encounters, weather, panoramas & crazy captions.
I'm looking forward to a very productive & informative season!!
Paula is an award-winning artist & photographer who's interests span a variety of subjects. Her life-long love of all nature began at a young age, as did her delight in capturing their images on paper & canvas. With training in both fine arts & graphic design, it has been a natural progression into photography for Paula. Paula currently shoots with a Canon 7D and never leaves home without her trusty Canon Powershot!
Darryl is an award-winning architectural technologist who owns & operates Cornerstone Drafting & Design, based out of Oshawa, Ontario. Darryl's curiosity with architecture dates back to his youth. His interest in photography followed shortly thereafter when he received a Pentax K1000 as a gift from his mother. Darryl currently shoots with a Canon 50D.
Miss January by Paula Kennedy
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