The shot is a re-worked single RAW HDR image from 2008 and the British Open Car Show held annually at VanDusen Gardens in Vancouver. LOVE the red and chrome together. So slick…

Collector Jaguar

Jacob - Age 1.5yrs

is currently being featured on the super cool HDRSpotting website and was selected by the HDR editors as an example of great HDR work. [...]]]> I’ve re-worked a number of photographs from single RAW files into HDR images and have posted a few older images in my smugmug account for fun. This image:

Jacob - Age 1.5yrs

is currently being featured on the super cool HDRSpotting website and was selected by the HDR editors as an example of great HDR work. At least that’s what I’m telling myself and why it’s being featured. To view the HDRSpotting daily featured sheet, click here.

More HDR shots on their way… just waiting for a break in the weather (and my migraines) to get out there. PLUS I have a new 8mm fish-eye lens that I’m dying to test out and a 200mm f2 lens on its way. Yup, I’ve said it bef I’m a gear head LOL

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Originally uploaded by studiowerx

We had a super fun day yesterday at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in La Conner Washington.

My friend Yvonne and I drove down for the day to La Conner and spent 3 hours shooting tulip fields in full bloom. There were acres and acres of flowers to shoot and while [...]]]>

Skagit Tulip Festival-14

Originally uploaded by studiowerx

We had a super fun day yesterday at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in La Conner Washington.

My friend Yvonne and I drove down for the day to La Conner and spent 3 hours shooting tulip fields in full bloom. There were acres and acres of flowers to shoot and while every tulips starts to look the same after a while, they were all beautiful and full of colour [and even some with frangrance!]

I always seem to miss this annual Festival and time it either too soon to take full advantage of the bloom calendar, or usually I’m too late and the majority of the tulips have past their prime. This year, with our exceedingly mild northwest winter, the bloom season was early and the tulips were ready to be viewed and photographed as early as two weeks ago. Timing for this festival is critical. A few days can make a huge difference when we’re talking about spring weather… A rain/wind storm can decimate the fragile tulip blooms with a blast of wind, leaving nothing but unsightly stem to shoot. Not what I had in mind…

This year I vowed I would be on time, I would catch at least a good percentage of the fields and I would do what it took to get there. I took a vacation day on Friday since the weather was expected to cooperate and going on the weekend would mean massive crowds and congestion in the fields. Yvonne joined me and also took the day off work and we drove down in the mid-late morning.

It was beautiful. Sunny with a bit of marine haze, breezy and warm. Picture perfect photography weather. I’m so glad I followed my gut and blasted through my workload at the office so that I could take the day off the shoot the fields in the sunshine… today, it’s miserable. Raining, cool and the fields would be a mucky wet mess. Timing is everything.

Anyways… I’ve posted a few of the 200+ shots I took at in La Conner yesterday to my Flickr account and SmugMug. You can view them here and here.

As a special treat for my regular blog stalkers, I’m posting a high resolution screen saver/desktop image for you here in the blog. Just click on the image below, and select the size you want for your desktop! Just click on the image with the size you want in the caption, then right click on the linked image and ’save as’ to your computer. Then depending on your system, either set the image on you desktop as ‘centered’ or ’stretch to fit’ and voila! Spring has sprung on your computer desktop =)

Enjoy the eyecandy and have a great weekend.

1024x768 Desktop

1280x850 Desktop

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As featured on HDR Spotting today! Yay =)

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Originally uploaded by studiowerx

Shot yesterday in the beautiful spring sunshine… Have lived in Vancouver my entire life and have never experienced the tranquil, lush beauty that is Nitobe Japanese Gardens. They are truly wonderful and a place of great reflection – both IN and out of the water LOL! I will be back again soon.

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Nitobe-10

Originally uploaded by studiowerx

Shot yesterday in the beautiful spring sunshine… Have lived in Vancouver my entire life and have never experienced the tranquil, lush beauty that is Nitobe Japanese Gardens. They are truly wonderful and a place of great reflection – both IN and out of the water LOL! I will be back again soon.

For more of this spectacular garden and to see a few more pics from my walkabout yesterday, please visit me at Flickr

Comments and critiques are welcomed and appreciated.

I will be posting another shoot later this week from the La Conner Tulip Festival. I’m taking Friday off [to avoid the weekend crazy] and driving down to La Conner Washington for the day with a co-worker, who I’m sure plans to pick my brains about shooting in HDR – lol! It could make for either a very LOOOOOONG day, or fast one – we’ll see…

Have a good week everyone.

It’s great to work for the City sometimes, because I can get access to areas that are often closed to the public or under heavy supervision. The back deck of Britannia [...]]]> Yesterday, while the weather was nice and clear, I headed out for a quick shoot in Steveston. This time I went to Britannia Heritage Shipyards.

It’s great to work for the City sometimes, because I can get access to areas that are often closed to the public or under heavy supervision. The back deck of Britannia is like that because of the need to maintain the historic site and to ensure that no one falls into the water or injures themselves. Anyways, I popped in to the office at the site, and a co-worker was there from our department so she let me on to the back deck and I spent about 1 hour shooting the exterior and interior of the building. Here are the results… LOVE!

For more images from this shoot, please visit my SmugMug gallery here… Thanks and enjoy!

I’m heading out to shoot again later today… maybe ;^)

I’ll be teaching a 4 hour workshop on designing and self-publishing your own photo and portfolio books at Langara Community College on May 22, 2010. The class is being offered for the first time at Langara and came about in a funny way…

During my landscape photography class at Langara, as part of [...]]]> Yep… It’s true =)

I’ll be teaching a 4 hour workshop on designing and self-publishing your own photo and portfolio books at Langara Community College on May 22, 2010. The class is being offered for the first time at Langara and came about in a funny way…

During my landscape photography class at Langara, as part of my chosen curriculum for my Commercial Photography program, my instructor Jim Balderston showed an interest in the books I had published. One class, I brought in a few and he was blown away. So, after a bit of discussion, we [Jim and I] thought it could be a great class to offer the photography students at Langara – and since I was the one who had shown the potential of the books, Jim felt it appropriate that I introduce the idea to the department head Greg Blue… Greg was also impressed and could see the HUGE potential for not only photography students, but fine art and graphic students too and as they say, the rest is history LOL!

More details will be shared on my blog once registration for the course is open. So if you’ve ever wanted to create a coolio book like me, sign up for this 4-hour workshop and amaze your friends, family and YOURSELF!

It’s an 8×10 landscape book and is available for purchase now! For a 30 page preview of this 58 page book, please click here.

To order, simply [...]]]> I’m obsessed with graffiti art, spray art and HDR photography… So, when the opportunity to combine these obsessions presented themselves this week, I had to make a book about it.

It’s an 8×10 landscape book and is available for purchase now! For a 30 page preview of this 58 page book, please click here.

To order, simply go to my online Blurb store to purchase, or contact me directly for an autographed copy. I will have these fresh-off-the-press books in hand in about 10 days.

For a sneak peek at some of the photos, visit my smugmug site by clicking here!

Thanks for looking…

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Originally uploaded by studiowerx

For more industrial landscapes featuring my favorite HDR photo technique, please click here…

Photoshoot includes images from industrial landscapes such as rail yards, container depots, piers, river fronts and demolition sites. I love graffiti and tonight I was able to find a fair amount of it… Enjoy the industrial eyecandy [...]]]>

containers 02

Originally uploaded by studiowerx

For more industrial landscapes featuring my favorite HDR photo technique, please click here…

Photoshoot includes images from industrial landscapes such as rail yards, container depots, piers, river fronts and demolition sites. I love graffiti and tonight I was able to find a fair amount of it… Enjoy the industrial eyecandy =)

I have to say that night time shooting is ranking waaaaaay up there with my enjoyment of photography.

Yeah, it’s challenging. Yeah, [...]]]> I spent about an hour or so shooting West Coast Amusements Carnival last night… The weather was cooperative and was threatening rain tonight, so I dashed out at about 7:30pm last night for the quick shoot.

I have to say that night time shooting is ranking waaaaaay up there with my enjoyment of photography.

Yeah, it’s challenging.
Yeah, it’s a pain to drag around a tripod.
And yeah, it gets chilly at night…

BUT the colour, vibrantly hues images against a dark, midnight blue sky are worth the effort! PLUS I love the blur of the rides as they whirl around and leave light streams behind – it’s so surreal!

For more of this collection of Carnival shots, please click here for the online gallery!