Went to the TD Centre in downtown Toronto this weekend to tour the 54th floor as part of the Doors Open Toronto event. More to come from the 54th floor, but this shot was taken at the ground level plaza, in between the tall towers that make the centre.
On my way out the door to catch an early flight, I noticed the sun rising over the city. The sky was a brilliant orange-red colour and I just had to capture it. Screw the waiting taxi, I thought. And I grabbed my camera.
Just as luck would have it, a flock of birds flew across the scene, adding some life to the image. I’m really happy with this one!
This image is unaltered, except for being cropped. It was shot through my living room window, in manual mode (which is rare for me to use, but was a lesson learned from my shots of the sun rising over Uluru in Australia). I basically set the aperture and adjusted the metering until the results met my liking. My lesson learned from this shot: I should have used a better lens, like my 70-200L. Oh well, next time… 
This is a panorama of Irving Oil’s Saint John Refinery located in Saint John, New Brunswick. This is Canada’s largest oil refinery according to Irving. The refinery is truly massive and took 6 images to capture this image.
The six images were shot hand-held and were stitched together in photoshop using automatic adjustments. The resulting panorama was converted to grayscale in Lightroom and slight toning adjustments were made for contrast.
The image above is shown using Microsoft’s Seadragon technology. Scroll and pan inside the image to reveal more detail. You can see my images here
I took a walk around uptown Saint John New Brunswick today, as the sun peaked out of the clouds for a brief few moments. I’ve been here for a couple of weeks on business, but this was the first time I’ve had a chance to take any photos of my surroundings. I’m here for another 2-3 months, so there will be more to come. I’m hoping to get out and see more of my home province and the Maritimes and the great scenery it has to offer.
I don’t do a lot of selective colouring, but I felt that this image needed some spice. Let me know what you think.
P.S. That is a huge snow bank in front of the church. This city has had a huge amount of snow this winter!
P.P.S. The title has been changed from “St Andrew & St David Church” to the proper name of “Trinity Anglican Church”
The Chrysler Building in New York City as seen from the observation deck on the Empire State Building (taken back in June 2008). I was playing around with split toning and thought this gave the image a nice warm and historic tone.
The image is actually a panorama made from three shots of the building and stitched using Photoshop CS4 (which does a lovely job if I might add). Although this blog won’t do it justice, the level of detail in the image is superb, and I’m definitely going to be shooting more panoramas in the future.
Edit: I’ve embedded Microsoft’s Seadragon viewer so you can click and scroll inside the image to see more detail.
