Area 53 - Photo 40 - Above The Banners

Another Windsor Spitfires season begins, another championship raising takes place.
I managed to get out of bed despite being sick as a dog to collect my credentials and photograph the ceremony. I only stuck around for a period and managed not to vomit onto the ice below in time to snap a few pics. Plus, I still have no real idea how to work my new camera and all it's funky settings, Sunday was definitely not the day to try and learn.
Anyway, my photo of the week is the four banners taken from in the rafters with new Spitfire Jack Campbell (10th pick overall in the 2010 draft) in the crease below.
The others include a closer pick of Campbell, a cool pic of Di Salvo on the other end of the rink facing his own net, and an overhead of a fight being wrangled up by the refs.
I hope you enjoy the few I got, and I hope to enjoy the long season ahead trying to utilize my new equipment to capture some great hockey moments.
Til next week,
t

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Area 53 - Photo 39 - Girlicious Embraces UWindsor

I had Girlicious perform at the University of Windsor Pub this past Thursday night and took the first real challenging photos I had taken in weeks.
It was the first time I used my new Canon 50D and I was having a hell of a time figuring it out on the fly without ever checking out all the features I had no idea how to use, but eventually was able to find the right settings to get at least a couple alright photos of the show.
The new renamed Thirsty Scholar wasn't as full as it could've been that night, but the crowd loved Girlicious, and Girlicious loved them back.
This is my favourite of the bunch, Natalie reaching out and embracing her Windsor fans.
Now that the my few weeks of chaos at work has passed, I'm hoping to get out there and really take advantage of the new camera.
Ciao for now.
t


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Area 53 - Photo 38 - Arrival

Since I'm catching up on the last two weeks at one time, here's blog two in the last few minutes.
During my week of madness my friends welcomed their daughter into the world.
Of the few times I've managed to stop in for visit since she's been born these are the best I've managed to get of her with her eyes open, which was about 30 seconds combined.
What a sweetheart!
The second is a random macro shot I took during one of my visits of an ant on a beach towel.
The ant is cool, but I really think I'm more fanscinated with the fabric of the towel.
Enjoy.
t

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Area 53 - Photo 37 - Detroit Vu

So i'm the latest I've been in regards to mine and Cale's weekly photo blog.

My only defense it that it's the busiest time of the year for me work-wise and I've just been too consumed to keep up, nor did I actually have time to take any photographs, most specifically I really wanted to get some shots of Alexisonfire and all the other bands I had perform at the E3 Music Festival (I'm pissed I was too busy to partake in any photopraphy action but what can I do). On the bright side, Cale Best and Ashlyne O'Neil got the job done in capturing E3 on camera.

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My only shot is a panaramic of the Detroit skyline I did one night during University of Windsor Welcome Week when I got a break to attend a concert at Caesar's Windsor's. I took it with my iphone from their upper level restaurant called Vu.

It's slacking I know, but it's something, I hope you like it.

t

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Area 53 - Photo 36 - High Rollin'

My pic of the week is aptly named, since this guy is high up on the Ambassador Bridge painting it with a roller. There's no way in hell I'd be doing that job, EVER!!!
This was just a random photo I took walking back from a work lunch outing, which was right by where I park my car. Good thing I had my camera in my truck at the time.
The second pic is also 'high rollin', only in the sense that I was on the suite level of the Fox Theatre in Detroit indulging in an amazing buffet before the Stone Temple Pilots concert.
I took this photo with my camera phone, but I still like it. At least more than the panaramics I took on the same night, they look cool, they just weren't as clear as I hoped they would be.
Maybe I'll get the chance to go in there one day and use my good camera instead of my iphone.
Fingers crossed!
I hope you dig the pics!
t


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Area 53 - Photo 35 - Thamesville Bridge(s)

The Historic Thamesville Bridge was the 'happy accident' of the weekend before rain put a damper on things and ended a random road trip on account of the downpour.
I didn't know it at the time but it turned out the bridge is actually in fact historic.
There was a rock at the site telling the whole story but I couldn't get a shot out of the car window with the heavy rain.
Check out this link, it's got a bit of history about the bridge(s).
My pic of the week is a panaramic of the current bridge and the south remains of it's original predecessor. The rest are a collection of the site including a water level scale underneath the bridge, a cemetary beside the narrow entrance of the area, and the odd pic out being a shot of some cool clouds I saw when I was getting in the car beside a gas station.
For more info on the Thamesville Bridge and to see some cool pics of the bridge from road level click on the link to what they have to say about it on historicbridges.org
I hope you enjoy the photos.
See you next week.
t

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Area 53 - Photo 34 - The Moon Shot

My photo of the week pretty much speaks for itself, it's a moon shot, or I guess, a half-moon shot.
The second is a panaramic of the pond at Ojibway Park facing south.
That's all.
Enjoy!
t


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