Summer in full swing!

Hopefully the summer is going well for everyone! I myself have had a pretty busy July and only now found the time to update the blog. I also have a number of photos to add into the photos section which I hope to get around to doing soon.
The biggest photo event I had the chance to shoot was Toronto's 2007 Caribana parade on August 4th. It's a spectacular week-long celebration of Caribbean culture in the city topped off with a colourful parade through the lakeshore area in Toronto. It's really just an excuse to party for a week :)
This year I was positioned near the beginning of the parade and was dissapointed to find the route was bordered by 10 foot high fences! Shooting through the holes was challenging, but I managed to catch some satisfying moments nonetheless. I really should have made my way further down the route, but I really wasn't in the mood to walk down in the blazing sun and just made do with what I had.

Here's a few of my faves from that day (click to open larger in new window):






In other news, Lightroom 1.1 is out and has some nifty new features I've found pretty useful. It's now my main tool for handling photos along with Photoshop. Capture One 4.0 is targeted for release in Q2 2007, which I'm also looking forward to seeing in action. If it can give LightRoom a run for its money I'd be happy, as I do think Capture One is a better RAW image processor than LightRoom. but is just lacking in many other features.

Next week I'll be off on a week-long trip to Vancouver, BC and possibly Edmonton, AB. I hope to do a bit of hiking in BC and get some decent landscape shots. I'm already stocking up on a couple of 4GB flash cards (TigerDirect's prices are great for these) and also thinking about grabbing an extra portable drive to store images on. I also need to get myself a backup camera for these trips... the F5 is just too bulky to be practical nowadays.

So that's all for now, hopefully I'll be back with some decent shots in a couple of weeks, take care!