Tag: Life

Connected Vision

Last night I had a bit of a rude awakening. I woke and headed to the bathroom for a pee. I was only a couple steps out of the bedroom when WHAM, my head connected with the linen closet door that had opened all on its own (I wonder if the cat had a role in that). The door was at a 45 degree angle to the hall and I managed to connect right with the edge.

I woke Sue with the noise (sorry about that), and it took me a couple minutes to work the stars out of my vision. Back in bed it took me a while to get back to sleep.

When I got up in the morning, I saw a small scrape on my forehead where I hit the door. Mental note: close the linen closet door all the way when I am done.

Model Destroyer

The coolest thing we saw and did last weekend was the model boat show. These models were extremely detailed. I can’t imagine how many hours went into creating them. Elliot was spellbound by them and loved sitting next to the pond watching them drive around in the water. Amy enjoyed them as well, but not to the extent of Elliot.

I had lots of fun with my camera, a polarizer, and some decent lighting to make some interesting shots.

This sailboat was actually wind driven. There was no motor on this one.

This next ship was a model of a Canadian destroyer.  Some cool features: two spinning radar dishes, a Sea King helicopter whose rotor blades could spin, and the turret on the front not only turned, but also had a 35 shot magazine and could fire pellets!

I think my favourite was this aircraft carrier. Very detailed and lots of fun to take pictures of.

This working sub could actually dive below the surface and motor around a bit. I wondered how he controlled it underwater since radio waves don’t travel so well through it.


Midway Draw

After dark a friend and I wandered down to the midway to take some night shots. I was surprised at the lack of people at the midway this year. I seem to recall it being packed until closing on previous years. Perhaps there was just too much going on around town to draw a big crowd.

The octopus ride made for some fun once it got moving. Long shutter, small aperture, low iso, lots of blurry goodness.

I like the simplicity of bokeh shots, so I tried that out for a bit. There were quite a few throwaways, but I had a couple I liked.


Review Short

One of the things that was happening as part of the international fleet review was a performance by the Snowbirds. We heard where they would be performing and thought that Cairn park close to our house would be a decent place to view them.

Now we have seen them many times before and love our Snowbirds, but this year I was disappointed by the show. We were late getting to the park, and then we realized that there were going to be some trees in the way. Add on top of that the Snowbirds were performing down low, and we didn’t really see much. It also seemed rather short.

I still got a couple shots off though.


Floats Wander

Today was the Victoria Day parade. We actually watched the entire parade which in previous years ran over 4 hours long. This year it was a little over three hours and the kids enjoyed every minute of it.

There were lots of excellent floats, lots of wonderful bands, and some leagues of people I had never heard of before. The weather was spectacular as well. A little breezy, but nice blue sky with white fluffy clouds.

With the kids snacking and taking in the action, I was able to wander a little and take some pictures. All my pics are here, but below are some highlights.