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  1. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Thanks going to check it out.
  2. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Snowtown

    Here's a piece I wrote for the pop culture site Bad Haven if anyone is interested. [/B][/B]
  3. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Do you have to have adobe photoshop? I use Corel Paint Shop Pro.
  4. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Here's a hodgepodge of shots. I can't wait to get up North.
  5. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Chilling at a British Pub in Burlington Took this shot from my car window. I'm really starting to irritate the hell out of everyone.
  6. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    A refractory plant that closed years ago, but strangely there are still comings and goings. Another angle on those Telegraph Lines
  7. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    I took this shot at dusk. This is the lift bridge below the Burlington skyway. This is the pier into the Hamilton Harbour. I'm still working on my night technique. I got a few tips from Durka, but I have a long way to go. The channel between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour. Rule of...
  8. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Is it the ferry into Michigan? Or cutting across at the Sault? I was trying some darker atmosphere and attempting to catch the evening colours. What caught my eye about this was the telegraph line on the tracks. It's been cut for years and the the posts have all begun to lean as a result...
  9. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Thanks Dan, nowhere near your level, but I appreciate it. Thanks Johnny, but I'll be doing intensive driving over long hours for six weeks so I'm opting for the airplane. Sorry on the herb too, I'm drug tested regularly [safety sensitive] so I abstain.
  10. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    I'm flying into Edmonton. Jet Fuel is expensive.
  11. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Nope, but if time avails I'll be having dinner with Karrie and her hubby, so unglue your ass from that brokeback cowboy town and head North young man.
  12. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Right on both accounts. It looked like he had a baseball in his hand. But you can't tell from the photo.
  13. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Google Earth Coordinates: Latitude 43° 4'40.50"N Longitude 79°30'38.47"W Highway 20 approximate 6 km east of Smithville there is a rest area on the left just over a bridge that crosses a creek. Beside that rest area is house with a barn. The vehicles are behind the barn.
  14. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    I have no idea. I kind of snuck in there took the shots and got the hell out. I can send you the location if you like.
  15. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Thanks Bear. And Dex, I made a mistake, I have a 55-200 zoom lens as well.
  16. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    I also have an 18-255 zoom. I just haven't used it much. I'm heading for the Ice Roads in January, hoping to catch some interesting shots up there.
  17. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    My wife put it there. You said it's for me to look in when I make a fool of myself.
  18. Retired_Can_Soldier

    Photography: The Amateur's Eye

    Hey Folks. I finally, after years of whining and stamping my feet got a descent DSLR from my boys for Christmas. They bought me a Canon Rebel T3 1100D, which for an amateur like me is more than enough to absorb. Still learning I thought I'd post a few of the pictures I've done so far. I...
  19. Retired_Can_Soldier

    More awesome occupy protesters

    Haftin' To Be Uproared - #OccupyAtlanta - YouTube