owl
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008You can tell I’m a towny when I get all excited about a blurry picture of a Hawk Owl:
It was kinda windy, and it was taken at maximum digital zoom. The Wikipedia link has a much better picture.
Archive for the ‘photo’ Category
giveaway: windshare turbine picture
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Decided to give away my favourite picture of the WindShare/Toronto Hydro wind turbine under an open licence.
Here are the file details:
File size : 719263 bytes File date : 2003:02:23 16:25:10 Camera make : NIKON Camera model : E2500 Date/Time : 2003:02:23 16:25:10 Resolution : 1200 x 1600 Flash used : No (auto) Focal length : 8.9mm (35mm equivalent: 58mm) Exposure time: 0.0007 s (1/1451) Aperture : f/3.4 ISO equiv. : 100 Whitebalance : Auto Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : program (auto) Jpeg process : Progressive GPS Latitude : N 43d 37m 54.98s GPS Longitude: W 79d 25m 32.4876s Comment : WindShare / Toronto Hydro wind turbine Comment : Exhibition Place, Toronto Comment : taken on opening day, 23 Feb 2003 Comment : licensed Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons by the Comment : creator, Stewart C. Russell / scruss.com - 23 March 2008
It’s also on flickr and Wikimedia Commons.
wish I had a canon …
Saturday, March 15th, 2008It’s probably as well that the most basic digicam that CHDK runs on is just too expensive to be an impulse buy, else I’d be doing all the weird and wonderful things you can hack your Canon digicam to do.
All that’s left of Bishop’s Block
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Two windows are pretty much all that’s left standing at Bishop’s Block, which was one of the oldest buildings in Toronto. It would seem that the façade is being kept for the new Shangri-la bourge hut, but the way the workers have been wrecking old bricks, it would be a surprise if much of the outer wall can be rebuilt.
probably the wrong time to have bought a polaroid back
Thursday, March 13th, 2008ice crystals
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
okay, so maybe it’s not spring, then
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
not so clean
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Took the D70 in for a sensor clean to Vistek. Pretty decent that they they could do a sensor clean for $35, I thought.
But I’m back on the stretcar for a reclean - they missed a huge macule which is obvious even printed at postcard size. Add four TTC trips each visit, I guess I didn’t get such a bargain.
glacial
Monday, February 25th, 2008
Toronto’s ice melter
Icebeard
a note for Rob (and others in Waikato) to say that it’s rather cold here
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
king st abstraction
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
kaleidoscope images
Monday, December 31st, 2007
if you have to park, park artfully
Friday, December 28th, 2007The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has done about as much as you can with the bare walls and gloomy spaces of an underground parking lot:
291 bridge over the Missouri, La Benite park
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Movie Theatre, Osceola, IA
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
oh and i went to high school with him too
Friday, October 19th, 2007now this is a live music photoblog: rahimlive.
from a vibrating ferry
Monday, October 15th, 2007
“It looks like Lite Brite”, said Catherine.
enwave reflections
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
the bird that you can see
Sunday, August 19th, 2007We had a wildlife day today. At breakfast, we had a large raccoon amble across the deck. At lunchtime when I was setting up the grill, this large hawk was looming above me:
What alerted me was the skrrt, skrrt of it rubbing its beak on the aerial, as in the last picture. Once it had finished gnawing on its recently deceased dinner, it sat about for a bit (quite literally fed up) seeming unperturbed by me sticking a big ol’ lens at it. But then, if you had Leatherman tools for hands and tin-snips for a face, you wouldn’t be worried about anyone trying to mess with you either.
Ripley Wind Farm
Friday, August 10th, 2007I drove through Suncor/Acciona’s Ripley wind farm the other night. They’re just constructing, but this summer has been almost perfect weather for building (dry, still — which kind of sucks for farmers and those of us with wind farms nearby, but it’s an ill calm …).
I don’t usually take pictures of parked or machines under construction, but these Enercons are quite something.
