Taken near our camp site up north on a foggy morning.

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Always like to set a few of these up around our campsite. Supposedly they keep the mosquitoes away, but I think a bug zapper would work better.

What do you see in these flames?

Really roughing it here, aren’t we? Just sitting around at our campground, I mounted the much maligned kit telephoto on my Canon Xti and pointed it in Rissi’s direction. Got some other shots too that surprised me. Maybe it actually is worth the $200 or so it’s reported to cost, not the $29.95 I thought one might be willing to fork out for a paper weight that looks like a telephoto lens.

This is the Kettle River that passes near the seasonal campground where we keep our camper. In case you don’t know around here ’seasonal campgrounds’ are places where you essentially park your camper for the entire season. It’s sorta between going to a new place every time you go camping, and having a cabin, which most keep for many years if not a life time.

It was our first trip up there for the season to get things opened up. Our main camper which we’ve had for a year now survived the winter just fine. No snow damage, all appliances worked, and no rodent infestation, always a concern when you leave a camper unattended for a long time. Also moved our pop-up camper which is used by our younger kids their friends back to the edge of the woods. It’s a lower area a hundred feet from the Horn River and spring time flooding has occurred there in the past.

Looking forward to many more trips up there, and hope to bring back some interesting photos.

This pretty much sums up our weekend.

I’ve become fascinated with capturing flames. This time I decided to experiment with shutter speeds and f-stops to both freeze the flame as much as possible while preserving depth of field. Took about 60 shots and some of them are quite interesting (more to come), especially at the higher shutter speeds (1/2000th to 1/4000th of a second). Haven’t decided yet whether the difference between what you normally see looking at a campfire and what the camera captures is because your eyes average the flames or the camera fails to capture portions of the flames. It’s probably a bit of both.

When I first looked at the pictures on my computer at home I was disappointed with what appeared to be a fair amount of noise in the black areas of the pictures, but for some reason it disappears once I process the raw files into jpegs. This shot was taken at 1/2000th of second, F/5.6, ISO 800, with a Canon EF50mm f/1.8.

Back from another weekend of camping. This shot of the Willow River (which is starting to run a bit low) was taken behind our campsite, down a mosquito infested path, and I endured a fair amount of bites on areas of my body not covered (hands, neck, and face).