Archive for the 'Photography' Category

Fall Colours at Lake McArthur, QC

We’re beginning to see a nice range of colours around the lake but the leaves will probably be at their best in a week or two.
Here’s an album of some 20 shots I took while waking the dog around the lake yesterday. The sky was overcast which is good for colours but makes for featureless [...]

My Photoblog

I created a photoblog to showcase some of my more serious photography. I will post some of my best pictures on a regular basis. You can find it here.

Photography Connects Us to the World

The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.

New interesting web sites

I found a couple of new and interesting websites on Panama.
The first is a blog called Birdwatching In Panama. It provides bird photos and bird watching and hiking tips.
The second one is called PTY4U.com (PTY is the ICAO abbreviation for the Panama City Tocumen International Airport). This site provides dozens of nice pictures of Panama, [...]

Panama’s Sarigua National Park

We unfortunately had to cancel our trip to Coiba Island after our boat ride became unavailable. So instead we spent three days exploring the Azuero Peninsula of Panama, and it was well worth it. What a beautiful place that is, with extremely varied landscape that includes rain-forest covered mountains, rolling plains, a desert wasteland, and [...]

Pictures from Panama

I posted about 50 pictures from my last trip to Panama, you can find them in my photo gallery.

The Canadian dollar is on a tear.

The Canadian dollar hit $1.10 US this morning as the USD continues it’s precipitous drop towards becoming an irrelevant world currency.
I wrote this blog entry a little while ago about how Subaru (and other car companies) are raping Canadians. Well now, the new numbers are something like this:
Subaru Outback XT Limited in Canada: $45,900. The [...]

Got to love fall

I took these pictures around our lake house today. Got to love these colours! And to think the colours are actually past their peak…

Nikon tops Canon in digital SLR sales

Nikon has been doing great in the DSLR market for the last couple of years. They’ve been selling everything they make and they are building new plants to meet the demand. They are doing particularly well in the beginner cameras with the D40/D40x/D50 but they are also doing very well in the advanced cameras (D80) [...]

Nikon is Number 1 in Customer Satisfaction

A recent survey by J.D. Powers and Associates places Nikon well at the top of customer satisfaction for Digital SLR cameras. Suprisingly, Canon is not even number 2, a spot taken by Sony!