PoTd - September 29 | The Photographer

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Pic-of-The-day - "The Photographer" or "The Tourist in Red"

I was out on a walk taking some shots & getting some practice (& content for this blog, as well as Flickr & Twitter) when the red sweater & hat caught my attention. She was taking photos and leaning on the wall, I liked the composition of the vertical bridge supports in the back & the trees in the mid ground. Once she started walking it all fell into place.

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PoTd - September 16 | Old Bridge

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Pic-of-The-day - "Old Bridge"

Machinery on an old railway bridge across an old Welland Canal.  I'm not sure what the machinery was used for,  it doesn't look like a lift bridge, there are some on the current canal, maybe it was a swing bridge that rotated around a center I was more interested in shapes and colours while I was shooting and didn't give much thought to the mechanics until later.

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PoTd - September 12

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Pic-of-The-day - "501".

A 'crows nest' at the top of a railway bridge across one of the old Welland Canals.
I'm fascinated by the machinery at the center of the bridge.  I'm speculating that it was a swing bridge when there was active shipping in this version of the canal.

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PoTd - September 7

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Pic-of-The-day - "Pilings".

Posts that I believe where pilings for a bridge abutment.  They surround an abutment of a train trestle crossing the Welland River (aka the Crick).  There's a lot going on in the area, The rail line goes under the QEW & over the Welland River, at the spot where a hydro canal starts funneling water to the Sir Adam Beck power plant.

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PoTd - September 6

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Pic-of-The-day - "Yet another obsession".

Along with my other obsessions & favourite things to photograph, I'm obsessed with wiht railway tracks. There's so many reason to love them, aside from the visual appeal, which is enough all by itself.

So many are seldom-used or completely unused. They are stoutly constructed entities from the past that still work as well today as they ever did.

They are industrial, historical & officially off limits. A railway brings so many things to mind, travel,  & adventure, there's also nostalgia & a bit of loneliness or at least isolation that's mixed in with the entropy of an old railway.






With all that sub-text, how can I resist?

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PoTd - September 5

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Pic-of-The-day - "5 pieces of graffiti".

Taken Beneath a QEW bridge/overpass in Chippawa running above a railway line & the Welland River (AKA the crick). This was one stop on a local photo challenge.

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PoTd - September 4

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Pic-of-The-day - "The Photographer".

Taken beneath a QEW bridge/overpass in Chippawa running above a railway line & the Welland River (AKA the crick).

This was one stop on a local photo challenge. We (EpicDi, KDH & myself) set out one after noon in early July to give it a try.  We started out fine, but as we went from location to location we got side tracked by spots that interested us more than the ones on the list and we ran out of time long before we finished the list.
In the end we did get what we where looking for. A fun day of photography.

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PoTd - September 3

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Pic-of-The-day - "Vintage Train Bridge".

There's so many reason to love Railways, aside from the visual appeal.

They are stoutly constructed entities from the past that still work as well today as when they started.

A railway brings so many things to mind. Adventure, industry, travel, & much more.  There's also nostalgia & a bit of loneliness or maybe isolation, that's mixed in with the entropy of an old railway.

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PoTd - April 18

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Pic-of-The-day - "DOF".

In the photography world 'DOF' is stands for 'Depth Of Field'.  DOF describes how much of the photo is in focus at one time. DOF is usually used in connection to shallow depth of field where only a small part of the image is in foucs. This can be a very striking technique.  Deep DOF (with most of the frame in focus) is often overlooked but, can also be useful & interesting.

I actually find Deep Dof to be a bit more difficult. It's not difficult to achieve, but it's difficult to direct the eye of the viewer to the intended spot. It's easy to direct the eye when theres' only a small area in focus, so easy it sometimes feels like cheating.

Sometimes I need to remind myself to practice deep DOF & use other ways of directing the eye, like colour, leading lines, choice of subject etc.  I really set myself a challenge this morning and I 'm not sure I really achieved what I was trying too, but as they say 'practice makes perfect'.

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PoTd - April 17

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Pic-of-The-day - "I Love Bridges".

What else can I say?

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