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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 …

Backyard Wildlife

I have the finally figured out how to work out an updated workflow for this site. There was a strange number of random issues that just started to break making is a pain to update and therefore I just stopped.

So, now that I have that figured out, I will …

Backyard Wildlife

Its not everyday that you see a hawk eating a starling in your backyard in the middle of the city.

Autumn and little birds

Autumn is upon us, or is that tomorrow, and the little birds are here to eat our natural feeders.

two small birds vying for space on the sunflower.

There are a lot of different flowers they can peck at, but this one sunflower seems to be the favourite.

chickadee sitting on a dried sunflower

There are chickadees too, but I only saw one so far …

Stormy Day in Lawerencetown

I'm happy to say that I think I have something resembling an image processing workflow, but I'm not sure that I actually like it. But I'm not going back to Lightroom, and CaptureOne doesn't have the image handling that I would need to switch, so here we are.

We headed …

Ravenscraig Field

We haven't been out a lot lately, I'm blaming the crappy weather and too much work, but this weekend was nice and I didn't have any deadlines.

We wanted to go to Frog Pond, but a lot of people has similar ideas as us, so we went exploring a bit …

Strange Looking Birds

I still haven't figured out how to add the image in the meta field to the post "nicely" so I have moved it to the bottom of the theme and will manually put them in the microblog. It may make some of the featured images look funny being at the …

365Project - Day 48

And good news, comments are back. I took them off to give commento another try, but their docs are offline and I would like to understand PHP a bit better. It has evolved a lot as a programming language since I worked with it.

So I'm using Hashover 2.0 …

Autumn Backyard Birdfeeders

We didn't have a birdfeeder this year, there was just too many warnings from provincial natural resources about the amount of bird flu in the wild population, so instead we grew flowers.

During the summer there were a few birds, but mostly pollenators, now that autumn is in full swing …