Olympus XA

My Olympus XA haven't used it in years. It was one of the smallest rangefinder cameras ever made. Comes with a  very fast f2.8 lens and excellent lens resolution between f8 and f16. 

is it Spring?

I know it is Spring, but it was a great day to shoot winter themed photos. My silhouette on snow.

Photographer's market

2014 Photographer's market

As a freelance photographer, I am always looking for new clients, and this is my guide.  It's a great resource for growing \my businesses. This edition contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date market contacts for working photographers today: magazines, book publishers, greeting card companies, stock agencies and advertising firms. I order the paper back version, but a Kindle version is also available.

woodpecker

Shot this photo of a woodpecker on a utility pole from my gallery with my 500mm mirror reflex lens, hand held with no image stabilizer at  400iso   1/1000sec.

Mikael Kingsbury

Mikael Kingsbury at Val St-Come

 

 

Mikale Kingsbury a inscrit son nom dans l'histoire a l'epreuve des bosses de Voss en Coupe du Monde de ski acrobatique dimanche.

 

 

Le jeune homme de Deux-Montagne a battu Alexandre Bilodeau pour gagner une 21e victoire en Coupe du monde, eclipsant la marque de Jean-Luc Brassard, qui la reussi en 11 saisons, Kingsbury est seulement a sa 4e saison  sur le circuit

moon

Shot this photo of the moon Saturday night with my 500mm mirror reflex lens at 400iso, better results than I had expected.

500mm lens

My new toy, an Optika 500mm telephoto mirror lens with a fixed aperture of  f/8 , not sure what the quality of the photos will be compared to my 70-200mm L Canon lens. I will see if I can get  some good bird shots over the weekend.

The race is on

Quebec Provincial elections where called today for April 7th. PQ candiate lost no time intalling here billboards in Jolieete, Quebec.

Lac Saint-Pierre

Lac Saint-Pierre is a lake in Quebec, located on the Saint Lawrence River near  Trois-Rivières, downstream  of  Montreal. Including its shoreline, and wetlands, the lake is a nature reserve.

This seasonally-flooded area is an important stopping point for hundreds of thousands of migrating waterfowl. It is also an important nesting area for herons, more have been counted here than in any other place in North America. In 1998, it was recognized as a wetland of international significance under the Ramsar Convention..Lac Saint-Pierre was designated a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 2000..

Target Canada

Target which have opened 124 stores since last spring have revealed a $941 US lost in Canada. They had originally foretasted a profit. This Target store in Joliette, Quebec doesn't stock any English greeting cards, unlike the nearby Wallmart which stocks English material for customers.