Mallard ducks are almost as common as the Canada Geese, although not quite as intrusive.
I haven’t been chasing the babies around this year as much although I still have been delighted to catch a few images of duck families at our golf club, Osler Brook in Collingwood.
Timelapse Photography – taking hundreds or thousands of pictures on a specific time interval (usually between 1 and 30 seconds) and then pulling them together into a video which is typically shown at either 24 or 30 fps, is a fascination of mine.
I’m amassing quite a collection of these little clips and hope to use them in some of my videos. Here is a video with a collage of timelapse scenes:
More examples are in these posts.
Here’s a short timelapse video of a storm at Osler Brook Golf Club in Collingwood, Ontario on May 31st.
We were about to go out on the course but the horn blew before we started.
People have been asking how this photograph of mine ended up in the May 2013 Special Edition of the Canadian Geographic Magazine on “Wicked Weather”.
Here’s the story. I joined the Canadian Geographic online Photography Club last year and have uploaded the odd photo based on their monthly requests but very few, actually. I’d like to get more involved but I am running in so many different directions at once, as it is. 🙂 Anyway, on one of my rare visits, there was a call for photographs of extreme weather pictures in Canada for a contest with The Weather Network. I uploaded a few pictures and a couple of them were from the same day in Toronto.
In August 2012, I went to a wedding for my long lost friend, Jola on her father’s boat, the Island Princess on the Toronto Harbour. She had moved out west 20 years ago. We lost touch until we reconnected on Facebook. I was very excited to go to her wedding, see her again, meet her wonderful husband, and go out on the cruise.
But it was a stormy day in Toronto. The skies were foreboding, winds were strong and it rained on and off all day. Still, her father Bob is sea captain and he took us out anyway, and found a calm area to park in the Toronto Islands. On the return cruise, we were greeted with beautiful double rainbows all across Lake Ontario. Stunning and great omen for Jola’s marriage, I thought.
So, back to the Canadian Geographic Magazine. I uploaded a few pics and forgot about the contest. There were thousands of photos submitted and many of them were quite stunning so I wasn’t really expecting anything. Then, a couple months later, I received a request from the magazine for high resolution versions of two of my pictures for this issue. Just one of them actually made it but it was also under consideration to be the cover.
Here are some short timelapse videos of various ‘people’ activities.
1) some family members practicing golf and instructing young Jasper
2) a gathering to remember Madeleine in April
Timelapse photography/video of a sunrise off the pier in South Haven on a frigid spring evening in May 2013:
Below are over 100 images from the Fashion Show at OslerBrook on December 7th with Dianna Elliott’s (vintagecatwalks.com) beautiful Vintage clothing.
To enlarge an image, click on it and then you can scan through the images on this page.
“Just Landed” is a neo-realist, 4 minute short film about two Pakistani immigrants to Canada and their struggle to fit in. The highly educated, older brother is unable to find employment while the younger brother/student assimilates to the Canadian way of life too quickly, causing conflict. This was a film school project for York University in May 2012.
I was very excited to hear that I was the winner of the DayTripper TV Photography Competition – both the Grand Prize and first prize in the Portraiture category for the photo below (and I won something in another category as well).
This image was taken in Innsbruck, Austria in January, 2012 during the Youth Olympic Winter Games. My niece, Roni Remme, was invited to represent Canada for Alpine Skiing so twelve of her family/ fan club members made the trip over. On the final day of racing, she delighted her fans when she came in second in the Ladies Slalom event. Immediately after the race, they performed a small ceremony at the bottom of the hill and it was quite snowy. They were actually facing reporters and each were interviewed by television crew afterwards. Then they were whisked away for urine tests and received their actual medals later that night in the ceremony in the square.
The actual medalists for the Ladies Slalom were:
GOLD VLHOVA Petra SVK – Slovakia
SILVER REMME Roni CAN – Canada
BRONZE TKACHENKO Ekaterina RUS – Russian Federation