Photo Monday: Ice Meets Water

hey guys and gals. As winter approaches slowly, i’ve started to migrate inside for my photo sessions. For this week, I had it in my head to reproduce a shot my brother and I loved a couple of years back. Thanks to JP, I have a super cool SB-600 flash to play around with. You should understand the name of this series with the last shot of the post. It’s awesome because it was exactly what I had imagined in my head. It’s beautiful to see the same shot appear on your camera LCD.

Hope you enjoy. Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Cheers,

Yellow Flower
Flower lit using a sun hidden behind huge white clouds. Thanks to our awesome new condo’s west facing wall of window.

Q-tip and reflection
Yes. It’s a Q-tip. I like the reflective surface that gives a natural reflection. Thanks to Scott Kelby for the trick.

Ice meets water
And for my favourite shot of the week: “Ice meets water”.

Tour de Bloc 7: Climber’s Rock, Ontario

I just posted a new entry with some more photos of the final problems. It’s all part of my new Photo Monday segment. Also, note that you can receive updates from this blog at any time by simply joining the mailing list in the right sidebar.

The first stop to season 7 of Tour de Bloc was held at Climber’s Rock. After only being open for a little more than one year, Climber’s Rock, of Burlington Ontario, is already positioning themselves as one of the best Tour de Bloc venues in the Eastern division. The gym has lots of space, and the organizers put in a lot of effort in. This year was another great example of a fun comp. Lots of good problems, a very good turn up in all divisions, and lots of great ambiance! Even though i overheard that the music was a little intense all day long… aanndd … there were two very important female competitors missing. wink. wink.;) Anyways, in all seriousness, the seventh season of the Tour de Bloc promises to be very good!!

I’m still working on the photos from the finals (check them out at my next photo monday!), but I wanted to share some shots I managed to take at the qualifying round. I was just walking around and took a couple of snapshots (see flickr for some extra shots). Excuse the intense post-processing, but that’s what you get when you have to crank the ISO all the way up to 1000… In any case, I find it gives a pretty cool effect (For more info, check out Scott Kelby’s post). Let me know if you dig or not!

Sebas stuck the dyno!
Sebas stuck the dyno! The croud went wild!!

Max worked hard on the top problems
Max worked hard on the top problems

Getting ready for the finals!
Getting ready for the finals!

Don’t forget, next Monday I will share my favorite shots from the finals. Stay tuned!
Oh, yeah, the results!

Women’s Open

  1. Nicole Ko
  2. Marine Cusa
  3. Shauna Post
  4. Leslie Allin
  5. Jany Mitges
  6. Ivona Rukscinski

Men’s Open

  1. Tash Zielinski
  2. Eric Sethna
  3. Sebastien Lazure
  4. Stephen Tambling
  5. Ayo Sopeju
  6. Dustin Kerr
  7. Keith Mackay
  8. Dustin Curtis

Awesome gym session

Being just back from a three week trip in Squamish, I wasn’t really looking forward to climbing on plastic again… but tonight turned out to be the best climbing session i’ve had in years! I’ve climbed about 12 problems and flashed them all! I stayed there only 2 hours and then came right back home.

Coming back to the Squamish trip, I will post some photos of the trip on flickr very soon, but for now, here is a sneak preview on the awesomeness that was Squamish!

The cutting edge, V4

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