Sharon and Jacques’ Excellent Blog

I spent several days looking at different ways to post-process images to redo some of the art work at home. I came up with the following using a combination of Photoshop, filters and Nikon Capture NX.

My personal favourite is the last image. Something about the nature of the light, mist and boy staring at the [...]

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Ontbirds (an excellent birding mailing list for Ontario) reported a Ruff, a shorebird and also a bird I’ve never seen before just outside of Angus, Ontario. I decided that I would give finding it a try rather than going to Long Point as the weather was a little on the rainy side further south.
The birds [...]

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I was back at Beamer Point CA outside of Grimsby, Ontario on April 6. Contrary to expectation, it was very sunny with a cold north wind blowing off Lake Ontario. This created perfect blue skies which made it extremely difficult to see any birds. The birds that were seen were generally very high. The net [...]

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The spring hawk migration is in full swing with good numbers of birds migrating. Between 1200-1300 birds were seen. In total, 13 species of raptors were seen including golden eagle, bald eagle, red-tailed hawk, red-shouldered hawk, northern harrier, rough-legged hawk, Cooper’s hawk, northern goshawk, sharp-shinned hawk, peregrine falcon, osprey, turkey vulture and American kestrel.
 Pictures of some of the [...]

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On the weekend, I was out and about looking for interesting birds to photograph. At this time of year, waterfowl predominate most of the birding and photography. At Humber View Park East at the bottom of Parklawn and Lakeshore in Toronto, I found a male and female harlequin duck. In my opinion, the male harlequin [...]

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Bald eagles are becoming a more common site in Ontario especially during the winter where they can be seen sitting on the ice. During a drive around my favourite birding spots, I found bald eagles at Nanticoke, Long Point and LaSalle Park.
LaSalle Park in Hamilton has had several reports of up to 9 bald eagles [...]

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I have added the first of several galleries of Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat is relatively unknown in North America but is considered one of the 10 wonders of the world. It is the world’s largest religious monument and its well worth visiting. It’s first mentioned in our travel blog here.  
For those that want more information [...]

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One of the most common complaints that I hear is that my pictures are too dark or too light or printed output doesn’t match what you see on the screen. There are 2 sources for this problem. One is monitor calibration, the other is printer calibration which will not be addressed.
Monitor calibration is an exact [...]

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