Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 06:12PM 
On a recent trip with the Nature group of the RA Photo Club to Amherst Island in the St. Lawrence we drove 2.5 hours each way to visit Owl woods. Except there were very few owls, most of us could find only one. And the light was flat with low clouds, and snow flurries. Not the best shooting conditions for anything, let alone nature shots.
Monday, February 15, 2010 at 04:19PM 
2010 was the fourth year at the Bonnechere Cup in Eganville, the first with my new 7D. The images that came out of my 30D for the the first 3 years were very good, in fact good enough to win competitions at the RA Photo Club.
Hardware Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 09:13PM 
I have just recently purchased a Canon 7D, which become the 5th camera to serve as my top of the line digital camera.
In 1993 it all started with an Apple Quicktake with a whole 640x480 pixels and capable of take 16 very fuzzy photos. It was really only useable for emergency shots, but it was digital.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 09:52AM ;)
Over the past couple of weeks I had the chance to use a friend's Canon 5D Mark II for a range of shooting opportunities. Going from a Canon 30D with 8 megapixels on a cropped sensor, to 21 megapixels on a full frame sensor was quite a jump.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 09:00AM When I joined the RA Photo Club a few years ago I thought I had a pretty good handle on what made a good photograph. I had read a few Freeman Patterson books, and thought I understood light. Wrong.
After a few competitions at the Club with judges comments, a few visits to the critique sessions, and a few presentations by photographers at the Club, I realized there are a lot of rules. The rules are softened by comments that they are made to be broken, but like the Duck says, good art as a lot of rules.