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  1. Downes

    Focus Bracketing

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 25, 2024
    January 25, 2024. These frozen cedars in my hedge are my first attempt at photo bracketing. To do this, you have your camera take multiple images, each focused slightly differently, then you combine them into a single image. In theory, photoshop does ...
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    Spruce

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    | 2024366, spruce, Syndicated
    January 24, 2024
    January 24, 2024. I pointed my camera outside the side window and captured this image of spruce trees between the houses. It was an indoor day today spent mostly puttering on the computer. I was pretty itchy all day; it reminded me of last summer but ...
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    Duck Buck

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    | 2024366, duck, Syndicated
    January 22, 2024
    January 22, 2024. Art in a gallery on St. Paul St. W. in Old Montreal. I took the train here today to attend a Mongo DB workshop starting first thing tomorrow. https://flic.kr/p/2ptXFyR
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    Larose Forest

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 21, 2024
    January 21, 2024. Snowshoeing in Larose forest. It was a chilly -10 but I'm figured out how to stay warm in this kind of weather and so we has a nice outing in the snow-filled woods on a brilliant clear Sunday afternoon. https://flic.kr/p/2ptKHQ1
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    Olives

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 20, 2024
    January 20, 2024. Olives at a booth at the show. After a visit to Costco and the Shoppers for meds we went to the Home and Remodelling Show at the EY Centre. It was worth the time to find out what it would cost to fix the siding on the front of our ho...
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    Char

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 19, 2024
    January 19, 2024. This is our cat Charlemagne. He's a big softie. The lens I'm using isn't really suited to low light - I had to take dozens of shots before I got one that wasn't fuzzy (it doesn't help that the cat is fuzzy). Today I had one meeting a...
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    Solar Cells

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    | 2024366, solar, Syndicated, winter
    January 18, 2024
    January 18, 2024. This is an array of solar panels as seen from behind. They're alongside the tracks a few blocks from home. I took this photograph on my daily walk at lunchtime. I liked the clean lines and almost monochromatic look of the scene. Up e...
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    Starshine

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    | 2024366, dawn, Syndicated, trees, winter
    January 17, 2024
    January 17, 2024. The red from the rising sun was reflected in the snow coating the trees for only a few moments this morning before it climbed above the clouds. As a result I had that "Good morning starshine.." song in my head all day. Longish day wo...
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    Car

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    | 2024366, Car, crv, honda, Syndicated, winter
    January 16, 2024
    January 16, 2024. I went to visit my mother and Bernie after work today; this is my car in the parking lot at the residence where she lives. It gives you a picture of the weather we're having - cold, icy, and on the way home, a lot of fog. Just an ave...
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    Snowfall

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    | 2024366, casselman, snow, Syndicated, trees, winter
    January 14, 2024
    January 14, 2024. This was the back ward today - bare trees and plenty of snowfall. A pretty good storm is brewing. I stayed indoors all day and worked on my European project, making a ton of progress. I'm also waking up early because I have a 4:00 a....
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    Oak Leaves

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 12, 2024
    January 12, 2024. I photographed oak leaves from below against a fading blue sky that's beginning to haze over as a winter snowstorm approaches. Had a longish meeting this morning and spent most of the day reading for newsletter articles. No, I don't ...
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    Centretown

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 11, 2024
    January 11, 2024. This is some artwork on a fence around a vacant lot at the corner of Bank and Lisgar in Ottawa's Centretown. It's the site of a future condo, supposedly, though the fence is old enough to be seen on Google Maps. I was in the area to ...
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    Snowmen and Reindeer

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 10, 2024
    January 10, 2024. I spotted these porch decorations on the second of my 'daily' walks this year (it has been tough to get motivated). I spoke a bit with the owner who said he bought the reindeer but that his wife made the snowmen after he cut the wood...
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    Snowfall

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 9, 2024
    January 9, 2024. Working from home today because of the impending weather. It arrived around lunch time in the form of a good old fashioned eastern Ontario snowfall. A couple of meetings, and reading for my newsletter. A bit melancholy today - could b...
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    Office Day

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 8, 2024
    January 8, 2024. This is my office in the city. There used to be a lot more green but my plants all died during the pandemic and I never replaced them. These days I'm, in the office two out of five days, which makes it hard to find a routine. Not sure...
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    Tomlinson

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    | 2024366, 335, caterpillar, excavator, Syndicated
    January 5, 2024
    January 5, 2024. Tomlinson is the name of the company that owns this equipment, of course. It's a Caterpillar 335 Excavator sitting on the lawn at NRC waiting to be used in some of the construction currently being undertaken. I don't actually know wha...
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    Cedar

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 3, 2024
    January 3, 2024. Testing how well my new camera (a Nikon Z8) works. It works like a dream. This is the cedar hedge beside the house. Today was a work-at-home day spent mostly working on my newsletter, registering for a Mongo DB conference, and setting...
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    Turkish Lamp

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    January 2, 2024
    January 2, 2024. While we were in Barrie over Christmas I bought this lamp from a shop featuring Turkish rugs, dishes and lamps. The sparkly shade appealed to me. Anyhow, it now sits here in my home office, adding to the general ambience. Today was a ...
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  23. Downes

    Chinese Food

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    December 20, 2023
    December 14, 2023. This is a selection from the Chinese Food Market next to the Mandarin Restaurant on Ogilvie Road, where I had lunch. It was decidedly mediocre - the spring rolls especially looked like they had been in the freezer for a few years. I...
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  24. Downes

    D750

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    | 2023365, camera, d750, nikon, Syndicated
    December 20, 2023
    December 12, 2023. This is my tried and true Nikon D750 camera. I've been using this for, I don't know, almost ten years now. It's showing its wear and it has trouble focusing but I've been reluctant to spend money on a replacement because it's hard t...
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    New York Central Trail

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    | 2023365, russell, Syndicated
    December 13, 2023
    December 10, 2023. This is the ice-covered New York Central Trail through Russell. We wanted to finish relatively early today because I had to be up at 1:30 Monday morning, so we just went to Russell and did the trail and a look through the Tweed fore...
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    Pink

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    | 2023365, dusk, light, pink, Syndicated
    December 12, 2023
    December 9, 2023. This is the back yard in late afternoon. This was the actual colour; it was so startling I had to take a photo (even though yesterday's photo was the same location). The light was quite remarkable; the photo doesn't actually do it ju...
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    Blue Sky

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    December 12, 2023
    December 8, 2023. This is my back yard. I really liked the light of the blue sky and the clouds. A quiet day today working from home, mostly on the 'context recognition' research. https://flic.kr/p/2pm9icW
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    Canada Goose

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    December 11, 2023
    December 7, 2023. Canada goose as seen in the Hudson's Bay store downtown. I was in the office today working on 'context recognition' and over lunch went downtown to get some of my favourite Hungarian paprika spice paste (cutting through the Bay becau...
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    Snow-Lined

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    December 11, 2023
    December 6, 2023. I've been enjoying the way the snow has been stuck to the trees all week. We had a wet snow, and then it stayed cold, so the snow never melted, and there hasn't been enough wind to knock it down. I was going to go into the office tod...
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