Here’s one more buttefly from this summer! I came across it, I must have missed it earlier. Looking closer at the picture, I found that it was decent enough to post.

Welcome to the new version of my homepage :) Hope you like the colours! This is the seventh incarnation of this site. It is still lacking some polish, but i’d say it’s 95% per cent done. Which is about as finished as the old theme ever got… There will probably still be some changes around here as I gain some critical distance, but this is the result of a lot of work (and a lot of scrapped drafts!) so the changes won’t be drastic (hopefully). Mostly bugfixes (there are still a few bugs crawling around).

Once I had tweaked the first picture, applying the same effect to other, similar pictures was easy (though not all turned out).

I posted a picture back in May called The Great Greening. This is another picture from the same series, but I’ve played quite a bit with the colours. I spent hours playing with black clipping, curves, exposure, temperature, split toning and vignettes, all the while checking with Jenna (does this look nice? I lose objectivity when I work for too long on my own pictures). Most of the effect was achieved by applying a yellow filter to the highlights and a blue filter to the shadows. Hope you like it.

…and I don’t know what they’re called. But they’re pretty.

Umm, not much more to say about this picture. Perhaps not the best framed picture of all times, but it’s so vibrant!

Our cats are normally indoor cats, but Morph has had a yearning to explore the world beyond the big glass panes and those pieces of wall that tend to magically swing open. The other one, Helios, is terrified of the outside. But Morph got his wish not that long ago… this was his first major adventure outside.

I took this picture of the mall nearby the other day. The sky really was this vibrant, no fakery involved!

• Nikon D70, two second exposure to capture the light streaks.

Shot of the Chicago River (is that its name?) from a bridge, facing upriver (west-ish).

Sunset shot from Port Dalhousie in St Catharines, Ontario. I was taking pictures of the sailboat (which I thought would make a nice pictures), when this flock of Canda geese came paddling past, almost as if on cue…

Taken down by Port Weller, the entrance to the Welland Canal in St Catharines, Ontario, in June this year.

This is my second HDR picture, also of Niagara Falls. Hope you like it! I spent an hour tweaking and pushing sliders around in PhotoMatix, a programme that makes HDR pictures, to optimise the result, and then some more time doing post-processing in Lightroom. This one was composed of three different pictures, but unfortunately, they too were JPEGs.