Some colourful fishing boats docked at the marina at Cape Cod.

Taken just after dawn, the water was almost as smooth as glass. Post processing was done to give the photo an aged look to warm it up and add a timeless sense to the photo.

A macro shot of my new wrist watch. I used a 70-200L lens coupled with extension tubes to get this close-up shot. The detail is incredible with this setup.

I wanted to use Microsoft’s Seadragon/Deep Zoom to show this in all its glorious detail, but they just changed their server to show only albums, not the single photos. You can see this photo (and others) in my DeepZoomPix album here

Fishing boats resting on the mud at low tide in St. Martins, New Brunswick. This is a high-resolution panorama, scroll inside the image to zoom.

This post is an experiment using Microsoft’s Seadragon technology. By scrolling and panning inside the image, you can zoom in or out to reveal much more detail.

I took a drive out to St. Martin’s (New Brunswick, not the Carribean unfortunately) last weekend to try and see a little more maritime scenery than is available in Saint John. St. Martin is on the Bay of Fundy which is famous for having the highest tides in the world. I got there around low tide, and was amazed to see the boats were completely out of the water. At high tide they would be floating along side the docks. The Bay of Fundy apparently has areas with 50 foot tides. That is quite amazing.

The water shown in this image is actually a small river. I was standing on the bank of the river with the ocean about 100 meters behind me as I took the photo. If it were high tide, I’d have been in about 10 feet of water!

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

The wreck of the S.S. Maheno on Fraser Island, Australia.

The Maheno has a long history, stretching back to 1905 when it was built in Scotland to be used as a luxury liner for travel between Australia and New Zealand.  It served in the first world war as a hospital ship, and then was converted back to a luxury liner after the war.  In 1935 it was declared outdated and was being towed to Japan for scrap.  Along the way it encountered a cyclone and washed ashore where it remains to this day.

Pods on the London Eye.

Taken in Amsterdam.  I think this was some form of art or something.  Basically these are red plastic plates hanging on strings over the entrance to a street.  It was very odd, but I liked the way it was illuminated at night.

Another shot of bicycles in Amsterdam.  This scene was fairly common in the city, so I figured I’d capture it.  The bike racks are always overflowing with bikes, it’s amazing that anyone can find theirs in the mess.

I’m not really one for using selective colour on my monochrome images, however I figured this one lended itself well to the technique.  The image on its own was a little boring, and the background was overexposed.

The image was converted to black & white using an adjustment layer in Photoshop. The red areas of the bike were erased from the layer mask, letting the red show through.

A big wheel on a crane that was parked near the Mimico Creek pedestrian bridge (seen in the last post).  There were two of these large cranes parked in the lot, probably being used to launch sailboats in the nearby marina.