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Weekend Baking

I got up to some more weekend baking and made my favourite cookies ever, ginger molasses. When it was time to put our portion in a tin, I noticed that it was round! The tin is over 20 years old! I have a few of the hexagon ones too, and …

Dramatic Cranes

We took a walk around Point Pleasant Park yesterday, and the lighting was perfect. Lots of dramatic clouds and filtered light.

Would recommend.

:wq

Spooky Season is here

Halloween weekend is over, the weekend that everyone does their parties, and trunk-and-treating. We went to a party with other like minded aka Covid is still everywhere and we don't want to get sick families on the weekend too.

Other than a halloween party, and a lot of autumn chores …

Slugs and Moss

A couple of weeks ago we went for a wander in the woods, and I was skimming through the pictures today and noticed something that I didn't see before, a slug under the moss. I didn't notice it when I was taking the picture, I just thought that the little …

More bees and flowers

I was going to test focus-bracketing, but then I remembered that there was a lot of extra pot-processing. So instead I just made the fstop number bigger (aperture smaller). Tomorrow I will probably add my flash for a flash for a full fledged macro-setup and turn the fstop to 11 …

Macro and testing 5:4

I have started thinking that square is getting old, only because its hard to print them, so I'm thinking about giving 5:4 a try. 8x10 is a nice size for printing photos, although I have a 4x6 printer, and that is the default ratio of the camera.

I don't …

Its now full Autumn in NS

Its full on Autumn here in Halifax. You could start to feel the change in the air early last week, but yesterday it was like the change was complete.

In a few weeks the leaves will start to change colour, and hopefully we get a lot of evening rain so …

Walk Flowers

There are a few flower beds around the Halifax Commons that have flower beds, not many, but the ones that are there are pretty.

Flowers and Butterflies

I stayed very close to home, in fact was mostly sitting bound, all weekend. But luckily we have a lot of pretty flowers, and a couple butter fly visitors to the yard.

There are some of the photos that I took, and there may be more soon.