my boy

Dylan and Mommy.

4 1/2 years old.

Yup, I could keep doing this forever.

It makes my heart happy when he initiates stuff like this.

Nature is better than therapy.....

Peaceful, Green, and Vibrant. 

 What a lovely way to spend an afternoon. 

 I could literally spend all day doing this.

Rather than photographing the whole train, I decided to do just train bits...interesting parts.

Vegreville

Our travels on the open road took us to the small city of Vegreville where you will find lots of Ukrainian folks and the worlds largest Ukrainian egg.

That's my boy, in yellow standing  under the giant revolving egg.

 Now we can say we've been there.

Found a bit of info on it on the internet.

Material: 

Aluminum Permanently anodized in gold, bronze, and silver.

Number of Pieces:

Star Patterns: 524
Triangular Pieces: 2,206
Visible Facets: 3,512
Nuts and Bolts: 6,978
Internal Struts: 177

Weight:

Aluminum Skin: 2,000 lbs
Internal Structure: 3,000 lbs
Base: 27,000 lbs

Dimensions:

Length: 25.7 feet
Width: 18.3 feet
Highest Point from Ground: 31.6 feet
Over 12,000 man hours of design and fabrication were required to develop the structure

Wide angle images, and a little help needed....

I LOVE the wide angle lens for capturing landscape.  One of my favorite things about Alberta is the big sky. This lens does a fabulous job capturing the big blue sky, and fluffy clouds.

I have another image similar to this, I like the composition of the other image better, but I'm struggling with blown out over the top white clouds that I can't for the life of me fix in photo shop or light room !  

Here is the image.

Anyone have any suggestions to help out ?

(keep in mind, i'm going out on a limb showing you my errors and my less than perfect image, which is not easy to do, so pls be nice.  )

I'm more happy with it in b/w but still not happy enough

new lenses, new challenges

I've been a bit spoiled lately with new new lenses.  I've gotten two new, a wide angle, which I've  been desperately longing for, and a new all purpose telephoto zoom.  In fairness to me, they haven't been big splurges because I've gotten them for awesome prices, which makes me very happy.  

We were out on one of our adventures this weekend and I took the opportunity to try out my newest lens.  Pretty happy with it, it's sharp !  It's taking a bit of getting used to with how far away I have to be from my subject.  My previous favorite lens, and probably one i'll always love is my 50 mm which has me at a different proximity to my subject.  More practice needed with this lens, but so far, happy with this purchase.

These are two of my son on a disused train track.  I do know with one hundred degree certainty it is no longer used.  I personally wouldn't shoot on a track that had even minimal usage.

I love the first one here, my son looking so happy and carefree.  And the second image, his killer smile.  

Edmonton city view.

I will be back one day without a child in tow

On a day when there are storm clouds 

or a day with a fabulous sunset.