Last of the series… maybe.

Shot from the opening day can be seen here.

I originally didn’t like doing too much in HDR – it’s Fake looking, I admit. But “fake” could also come to mean painted, and I think that’s what I was going for in these shots. I wanted to showcase features of the park – it’s highlights as well as it’s location – but I wanted to do it in a semi-unique way.

I really gleaned this newfound inspiration from Stuck in Customs who shares this view of “do something different”. And while HDR is nothing new to the photo community, and certainly isn’t to many of your preferences, I’ll lay odds that it’s something new and unique to the people finding inspiration from the Park, who may want to take something back with them that they can renew that feeling they had when they visited the park.

Prints can be purchased here: www.photrade.com/JVL with 50% of my proceeds going back to the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation.

So I thought it would be a good idea to wake up at 4 today and “beat the sun” out to the Cancer Survivor’s Park, which I was scheduled to photograph at about 2pm.

I’m not sure if I saw the real benefit of that extra time spent in the dark – I certainly got some shots I couldn’t have at any other time of day.

Also, the po-po came about an hour into my shoot, seems that someone saw me shooting with a tripod and thought it was illegal, a crime, or doesn’t know what a gun looks like… anyways, a squad car pulled right into the park and three cops burst into the park running… I explained what I was doing, they laughed, left, and I stayed for another few hours until the golden sun rose too high.

It’s been a good day.

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