Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Conch stew with rice
Yesterday I wandered out to Lighthouse Inlet at the north end of Folly Beach. I’ve driven out there lots of times before, but never got out of the car to walk out there.
It’s a pretty nice spot and there were a few people out there enjoying the New Year day weather. Offers a nice view of the Morris Island lighthouse. Since it was just a spur of the moment thing, I didn’t have my regular camera with me.
Lots of interesting tree skeletons buried in the sand.
Lots of beach to wander along too.
Going to have to head back out there soon with the good camera.
2011 marked a return to the SLR world with the acquisition of a used Canon Digital Rebel XT. I spent most of this year experimenting, playing and learning. Lots of photos were taken. Lots of panoramas, experimenting with different photo settings, dabbling with long exposures and a lot of learning how to manipulate RAW images.
These are some of my favourites from this year.
This one was from a CSCLUG meeting we had at Coastal Coffee Roasters in Summerville. It’s the falling beans that I liked about this photo.
This was from a sunset photowalk at White Point Gardens. I really like the orange-y cast of the sunlight and the shadows of the trees.
This is from a night time photowalk I went on with some friends. A simple photo of some spanish moss lit by the flash, but it has kind of an alien look to it against the black background.
I started experimenting with star trails and long exposures recently. This is one of my favourites from my recent experiments.
The rest of my favourites are silhouettes, a technique I enjoy using. The first one was taken at the Red Bull Illume exhibit that was set up in Marion Square earlier this year.
These three silhouette images use my favourite light source: the sun. I just think objects backlit by the sun look really cool.
2011 was an interesting year, in that Chinese proverb/curse sense of the word. Hopefully 2012 will be less “interesting”.
I see new things in store for 2012 and it looks to be a busy one.
Probably the biggest event in store for 2012 will be getting past my qualifier. Once I make it past that, it should be a reasonably clear road to finishing my PhD. My original intention to do work, classes and research at the same time turned out to be somewhat overly optimistic, especially this past year where I didn’t get much in the way of research done at all. Hopefully I’ll be able to make faster progress starting in the new year, because quite honestly I’m starting to get tired of the whole school and research thing and will be very glad to get it over with.
Also looking forward to finally getting rid of this dud of a cell phone and upgrading to something with that will be a little more fun to use.
More simplicity is the goal for 2012.
Double shot espresso
