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Last night while listening to several different performers at the Fred Eaglesmith Charity Picnic most people with a camera were pointing them at the stage.  Not me.  Mine was aimed straight up for 50 minutes.  Six hundred frames later I had a 25 second time lapse video.  The following image is a frame capture of that video.

Perseid Metoer Shower

With all the hype this week of the great Perseid Meteor shower that 2015 was to deliver I didn't want to miss out.  I headed out to the beach near Lake Erie after dark (about 10:30 pm), pointed my camera south then north.

First shot is over Lake Erie with the Port Bruce beacon flashing.  I was using an app for my camera to record a time lapse of the movement of stars.  The process took about 20 minutes taking about 100 separate images.  I didn't like the outcome so I grabbed a single image merge and worked with it.

The second shot was a little simpler; point the camera in the general direction of the milky way, focus (not easy in pitch black) and expose for 25 seconds.

Port Bruce

Last weekend the weather was extremely dramatic so I took a drive down to Pt Bruce expecting a nice sunset. On the way hay bales coaxed me out of the car early.  Later while I was shooting along the shore two young women asked I could take some shots of one of them with her own camera.   After doing so, I asked if I could take a few shots of her with my camera.  Walaa said sure.  Then the light did what I had hoped for and lit up the sky amazingly.  The wind was pushing water up onto the pier and the reflections were an unexpected bonus.

Early Morning Garden

Today we had the chance to revisit Charlie's garden.  When you walk through the pathways you wonder just how much time Charlie must spend keeping everything so tidy and fresh.  All I know is I would never be able to do it.

Tall trees line his property's eastern boundary.  The sun this morning was strong and the trees caused the light to enter the back yard in streams.