For those of you who have seen the British (aka the only, or the Original) Top Gear, you know where the title of this post comes from.
It was sitting next to the Audi, a Bentley and a Lamborghini (which has too many people around to photograph cleanly)
Another excellent shot from the Falls area, this time with my back against the falls, protecting the lens from heavy spray (more or less)
I'm not sure how street photographers get candid shots. Everytime I try, whether it is with my huge D1x or my tiny (by comparison) Yashica 124g, people notice and either run and hide or ham it up for the camera. Neither result is what I want.
I really like how this turned out. I'm going to hang it in my new office. Right at the base of the Niagara Falls, we were getting hammered by the spray, and yet I knew my Yashica 124G would be ok (the advantages of an all manual camera, no electrics to fry) so I took several images from this vantage point.
This is one of the pictures I was waiting for from the many rolls I took. The film had expired in the 80s, yet there was little (if any) effects from age. It must have been stored properly. Kind of unfortunate as I was looking forward to unpredictable effects, but at the same time I'm glad it worked well for some of the shots.
This little fellow simply blew me away with his grace and beauty. He's the closest argument for the existence of God that I've ever seen.
Ysterday I was walking to my car to go get some supplies and this little fellow was sunning himself on the hood of my car. I ran back into my place, grabbed my camera and my macro lens, and ran back out. 
I swear this guy looks like something that belongs under a rock. Maybe in the game it even does, cool paint job though.
This guy looks like he belongs in a box of Cracker Jacks. Threw a little Rembrandt lighting on him and he's presented here for your approval.
I'm trying to keep this journal family friendly, but this does look like bagpipes from the underworld.
"Gimme a steak, medium rare"
"Pink?"
Lovely little creature, beautiful colouring. Comes from a game called Warrhammer 40k. Neat tabletop game but the prices are too rich for me.
I was invited to a party where they had miniatures on display for an upcoming painting competition. I didn't have my full gear with me so I used local lighting and the off white (very off-white) wall behind them.
If you've never been to Niagara Falls, there is a walkway going along the river area that gets pretty heavily sprayed by the Falls.
When going nuts in PhotoShop, I wanted to ensure that each picture was different, and hopefully fit the style of the picture. Not always easy when starting with a Black and White image, but I think I successded on most of them.
I like how this one turned out, almost like it was supposed to look like this. The water is blue, the sun just rising over the land and up into the stormy skies.
PhotoShop, like LightRoom (and others whose names escape me at the moment) are great tools, but in my mind ones too easily overused to cover up bad photography. I have met more than my fair share of people who claim not to be great photographers, but great photoshoppers. Sure their work looks wild, but underneath it all, is there a good image to begin with?
The 120 film Yashica TLRs will take a maximum of 12 shots per roll. So unlike my dSLR, I have to be much more picky about when I fire the shutter. Plus the thing is totally manual, no light meter (well, the 124G does have one, but it's powered by an unavailable mercury button cell), so computer electronics, nothing of that sort, so you really have to know what you are doing because the film isn't forgiving.
I love shooting with Medium Format cameras, and especially Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) box cameras from the Japanese company Yashica. There is something about shooting with technology made in the 60s that appeals to me. 
I went with a friend to do some shooting downtown and had initially brought my newly acquired Yashica 44, loaded with film that had expired in 1963. This picture isn't from that, I'm still waiting on development of the 127 film. This is from my Nikon D1x.
Every celebration has to have fireworks correct? Well here is one from Canada Day. Shot through the hotel room window, but with it being night I don't think the tinting of the windows had too much effect. This shot wasn't on the tripod, but rather braced. SHould have used the tripod, oh well, live and learn.
Many things have occured since I last posted, I got a new job, went on vacation, all that jazz. I went back to Niagara Falls area for Canada Day, hoping to get some good pics of the area. The windows int he hotel room wouldn't open, so I tried to shoot through them for a dawn shot. This is the result. I'm not sure how I feel about it, the tinting was really captured by the camera, even though it wasn't that obvious to my eyes.
