Jesus, etc.

This is a statue outside St. Paul's Hospital here in Saskatoon. Some people contend this actually St. Paul, but I don't think the Apostles get that Sacred Heart thing on their chests. I dunno, I am not a Catholic.
The initial shots were taken on various Hipstamatic filter settings. The third shot from the top was used for the basis of all the other edits. Originally I was going to something with the collage/frames app Fuzel, but realised I needed to go back to SPH and take close up shots of the areas I wanted to focus on - the pixelation was just too noticeable.

The following shots were made (to varying degrees) with PhotoWizard, Pixtromatic+ and ScratchCam. 

Pitt Lake and the Polder

I was still very much enthralled with the Instagram filters at this point which these photos all show, except for the last seven which are straight up iPhone. (I didn't have any photo editing apps at this point) Nonetheless, I love this area of the Lower Mainland. 

Pitt Meadows. South of the Polder.

I have a fondness for Pitt Meadows, specifically the area north of the Lougheed Highway, that confounds a number of people I know. If I had the money, I would probably buy land and build a house in the area. This is the first series of shots from my wanderings around there in Feb. 2012.

A Little Experimentation

January 2012

The Bumblebee's Knees

I have no idea what these flowers are, but they are growing in the alleyway near my place and the bumblebees bloody love them. And, as it happens, I like bees and so it had afforded me some great opportunities to take pictures of them. 

I have used the Hipstamatic App to take these (http://hipstamatic.com/ if you don't know anything about it). For the pic above, I used the John S lens option (probably my favourite overall) and the Sugar colour film option with the Jolly Rainbo 2X flash. Really brings out the colours - deep, rich tones, very sharp.

Bot B&W shots use the John S lens with Claunch 72 Monochrome film option. I used the Jolly Rainbo 2X flash for the later pic but the first pics is sans flash. I don't know enough about the biology and habits of bees to understand why the bumblebees seem to fill up on pollen and then just... I don't know... nap (?) inside these flowers, but they do. This guy was sitting there, still calm, listless and was doing the same when I came back 20 minutes later.

These last ones were actually among the first to be shot almost a week ago. The top two use the Sugar film option, again, along with the Loftus lens option. The second picture utilises the Cherry Shine flash. The Last picture uses the Libatique 73 lens and Float film options.