Time Immortal

Okay, I keep finding shots in the archive from the Scouts Canada camp that I like. This one is a bit dark in the foreground, but I tried to use some pseudo-HDR techniques and ImageFuser to bring out some of the foreground details.

One last shot from the Scouts Canada camp. This is a “spiral staircase” we lashed together to allow smaller Scouts access to one obstacle in particular. Also visible is a bucket of twine, which we use in copious quantity — think Red Green and duct tape — when building anything of this nature.

Okay, yesterday’s keyboard was kind of a diversion; today’s picture brings us back to the Scouts Canada camp, and the spar that the Rovers suspended some 40 feet in the air, between two trees. With rope.

We were proud of ourselves.

Here’s the first HDR image I’ve created using Enfuse, with ImageFuser for a GUI frontend. It’s a shot from the Scouts Canada camp I was helping set up last weekend — specifically, it’s a shot looking up a ladder at a spare we were lashing between two trees, some 40 feet in the air.

The results aren’t bad. Contrast is a bit low, although ImageFuser gives me a lot of control over that parameter, and I deliberately kept it low for this first attempt. What’s nice is that there isn’t much digital noise in the image, not any more than there was in the ISO 400 source files to begin with.

Here’s another shot from the Scouts Canada camp that I was helping to set up the obstacle course for. This is Matt, one of the Rovers.

I don’t know why, but I love taking shots where the camera is aimed down the length of a fallen tree. This one was taken at a Scouts Canada camp that the Rover Crew helped out at last weekend. Our responsibility was to build and help run the obstacle course there.

The Rover Den — home away from home for the 59th Edmonton Rover Crew.

Oh, and some yellow flowers..

The Rover Crew curls every Thursday evening at the Shamrock Curling Club in Edmonton during the fall/winter months. Usually, I can’t make it because of work and whatnot.

But today I managed to catch a bus south from work and got there in time to take some pictures. Most of the photos I took will become material for the annual slideshow I prepare for the Scout group every February. But this one picture, I thought, was worth posting.

Where was this taken?

Not much else to say. I hate shooting under the harsh flourescent lights in that arena, because invaraibly the colour balance of the shot is horribly off. Still, this one recovered passably, and I’m hoping the rest will turn out as good or better. The blessing of RAW photography, I suppose, is the flexibility I have in “after the fact” photo editing/processing.

I spent most of the day at a Scout camp helping other members of my Rover crew run an obstacle course. We used to run the camp every year — this year, because of logistical issues, we turned the camp over to another group instead.