Project 365 - Day 364 - Bronte Harbour

For the second last day of this project, I decided to go back down to one of my favourite haunts.  I went down to Bronte Harbour.

The ice in the picture is quite thin, to the left of this shot the water is open and moving.  The geese shown in the lower right hand corner are actually standing on the ice itself ... not swimming in it.

It just might be time to fly south birds ... :-)

Project 365 - Day 363 - No Rest for Santa

Well, today marked the last of the Christmas festivities that we had planned this year.  4 Christmas dinners, and one open house, and we got to see a lot of friends and family.  It is now time to start planning for next year.

This got me thinking about Santa.  It must take him forever to make all the toys for the little boys and girls, so he must have to start right away.  I am sure he takes Christmas day off, and maybe Boxing day as well, but he is probably back at it again on the 27th, making toys.

I have a figurine that I painted probably 12 years ago of Santa making a dollhouse.  I decided to do a portrait of him for tonight's shot.

Project 365 - Day 362 - Tree at night

Tonight I went back down to Coronation Park to shoot some stars.  I decided to use my tree as the foreground for some start shots.  It was really dark due to the lack of moonlight, so it was really hard to focus.  I ended up bracketting my focus on a number of shots and picking the best one later when I could see what the focus was doing.

Project 365 - Day 361 - Snow and running water

One of the things I like about early spring is the melting of the snow, and how the creeks and rivers start to carve their way through the ice and snow.  Today is a very nice day, it is sunny and hovering around 0 deg - the perfect ingredients for open water in the creeks and rivers.  This is a shot I got this morning around the corner from my house - I love the reflections in the pooling water, just before it goes down the little mini rapids.

Project 365 - Day 360 - Coronation tree from another angle

This shot is of my favourite tree in Coronation Park.  You can see that the remnants of the ice storm are pretty much gone from our neck of the woods.  We went to see my sister this evening for Christmas dinner and she still has a lot of ice on her trees.  Her neighbourhood is just north of us, about a 10 minute drive.  It is really strange how different the results of the storm are from area to area.  I guess there is something about living closer to the lake - but it usually feels colder around the water.

Project 365 - Day 359 - Luca and the Nerf Gun

So this is my cousin's son Luca.  I had him pose like this, and used a small aperture to blur his face while I focused on the barrel of the Nerf gun.  The gun was not loaded, and neither my camera nor I was in any danger during this time.

Project 365 - Day 358 - One more ice storm shot

This was shot on the way to a family dinner, the first of four Christmas dinners this year.  Yum.  Anyway, this is up in Brampton, along highway 407 where the ice on the trees and bushes is still pretty thick.  You can see a lot of ice build up on the transmission towers.  These lines all survived the storm, but some are still coated in ice even though it is sunny outside.

Many thanks to my patient wife for pulling over on the side of the highway so I could get this shot... :-)