To view more of my photography please click on www.rakmilphotography.comWest Block on Parliament Hill reflected in the windows of the Bank of Canada Building. Shot in black and white, processed in Adobe standard colour. HDR bracketing and reprocessed in black and white.
To view more of my photography please click on www.rakmilphotography.comYou can always count on Chickadees, anytime of the year, always hoping for food. Flying right at you and just missing. They seldom perch like this one did and patiently wait for their portrait to be taken.
To view more of my photography please click on www.rakmilphotography.comI wanted to try my HDR technique on modern buildings. It worked well, with a few issues concerning very tiny details I decided to remove. There is still a school for the wild HDR that focuses on colour tones. But I think that going a more natural route works nicely for the things I like to shoot in town.
To view more of my photography please click on www.rakmilphotography.comEvery year I hope to get one or two scenes of a heron hunting and this one did not disappoint. The stare, the sudden movement, and the tasty morsel in the beak. Classic Green Heron, determined, poised and fast.
To view more of my photography please click on www.rakmilphotography.comI came across this wooden house just off the downtown core of the city. From my perspective the place looked western and to best capture that I shot a portion of the side of the building where the trellis and windows were the highlights. A piece of the whole telling a larger story.
To view more of my photography please click on www.rakmilphotography.comI was reading an article about landscape photography and making use of the foreground, specifically about anchoring your photo with three things. I thought it might be fun to take a series of photographs of three things. The next day in the park I saw what became this photograph – two lilies, the island bush and the reflections. It’s a start on the project.
To view more of my photography please click on www.rakmilphotography.comI saw something like this in a magazine. I suspect they used a tilt-shift lens to make sure everything lined up ( special manual lens that allows you to change perspective in camera). But I doubt, from experience, that anything lines up these days. Perfect lines just don’t exist. Just as no two balconies mirror one another. It struck me as an interesting view on life.
