Voyages Around My Camera

Blog URL:http://cameravoyages.wordpress.com/
Blog Tags:photography, nature, art, travel, equipment, technique, birds, light, dark
Country:Canada
State/Province:Alberta

Photography as the common link between my varied interests. From history to biology, from garden to wilderness, from city to farm and around the world: it is collected light that binds them.



Latest Blog Posts



Facing sunsets is how many appreciate the evening, watching the orb as it appears to spread and flatten and then disappears below the horizon. Few know that this is not reality, but an optical illusion. What you see setting below the horizon is a mir...

The first part of my move is now complete! Voyages’ sister blog, The Bug Whisperer, has placed its final post. The Bug Whisperer is metamorphosing into a new website and blog, now called Splendor Awaits! Splendor Awaits will be my site for sha...

Reconciliation

on Dec 5, 2011 in: Landscape

  Voyages and The Bug Whisperer are taking a break. I need to complete a move that I began in August. I hope to be back around Christmas — somewhat more organized and with a clearer mind. Until then, keep well! Filed under: Abstract, Alber...

‘Tis the Season…

on Dec 3, 2011 in: Canada, Video

Every week I get dozens of requests for mentions on my blog. I ignore most, because they are not relevant to the theme. However, I can’t ignore Nature Conservancy, who do so much work preserving wild places around the world. If you are looki...

Stepping back.

on Nov 20, 2011 in: Landscape, Travel

Autumn in the prairie. Abandoned farm house, the fields now filled with tawny grasses and silvery sage. A chained gate is no barrier for the ghosts of this place. There is no isolation from Time. I feel drawn to abandoned homes and, although I wo...

If you photograph in the prairie, you are going to come across an old abandoned pickup. Many have photgraphed them. Some do it HDR, but I chose to desaturate it. (Southern Alberta, 22 September, 2011. Image manipulated in PhotoScape 3.5) Filed under:...

Wiley Publishing has produced a photo workshop series for a few years now, featuring books covering areas such as portraiture, infra-red and HDR photography. They have not stinted on the covering the essential skills, producing books on composition,...