Ottawa Winterlude IV

Sunday morning. Batteries recharged, and I started with a couple cups of coffee. SMS comes in, "Breakfast anyone?" What can I say? I needed energy and body fuel to keep up with the walking and the cold. We met up at Zak's Diner in the Byward Market. Now there was just 8 of us. It's a busy place, but I think it was worth the wait. First thing ordered? COFFEE! Then food. I will have to check that place out again the next time I am in town. After breakfast, we wandered through the market and headed down to Confederation Park again to check out more ice sculptures. It was colder then the previous day and the wind had picked up.

After about an hour or so I made my good-byes and headed to Sparx Street for the Winter Brewed craft beer festival. Sorry no pictures from that. I was too cold to even think about taking shots. All I can say is that an outdoor beer festival in the middle of winter in Ottawa is definitely up there with bad ideas. Good beer though.

After I tried a couple of samples I headed back to the hostel to relax and warm up. Monday morning I packed up and headed home. It was a good trip. Over Sunday breakfast we discussed doing another hangout in real life. If things go well, it's off to Montreal for Jazz Fest this summer. I think I may need to bone up on my public school French.

July Scavenger Hunt

Okay, I will post my pictures now for the Chrysta Rae July Scavenger Hunt from Google +. It was a tough month with lots of stuff going on in my life. In the beginning of the month I had a small accident and bruised my tail bone. This put a small damper on my motivation in many areas. I managed to pull through and get something done. After looking at the list I had a few ideas of what I wanted to do. As my Tuesday post noted, I had some dreams for the Rust category. Ah well, at least I had some other ideas. The good news is that I did manage to raise my thinking and shooting a bit. I had a few images that I was proud of this time. Not good enough overall to be honest, but the competition is fierce. So, the all the reveals have been done, and winners announced. And now I give you my album for the July Scavenger Hunt!

Model: This one is going to get a behind the scenes post due to all the work and detail. It was also awarded an Honorable Mention by one of the judges for the hunt.

Motion 
  Kiss: another behind the scenes post for this one as well.

Blue: Yet another behind the scenes, well I may combine this one with Kiss since there were fewer images used in the creating of both.

Puppy

Tree


Lines

Rust: This was the image I ended up using.

Reflection: Quick and dirty, using one of my friends as a model. If I had asked I could have gotten an even better skull for this category. Ah well, I am happy with the way it turned out for something shot in a rush on the fly.

Breakfast: Another rush image since I only had about an hour or two to shoot, process, and then upload. Proper lighting I think would have done the trick. Still a fun shot. I think I have a few BTS pictures of this one as well.

Okay, there are my pictures. I now will link the full categories for each word. Remember there are about 300 pictures minimum per album. And there are a lot of amazing images. So sit back, grab a beverage of choice, and enjoy.

Model
Motion
Kiss
Blue
Puppy
Tree
Lines
Rust
Reflection
Breakfast