Up at the Cottage - Taking out the Docks

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Karrie and i went up to visit Katie and John at their cottage for Labor Day. We arrived on Saturday just before sunset.

Again i tried using the homemade ND filter to take pictures of the lake, during the day.

The colors didn't come out great because, just like when i first tried it at the waterfalls in Tennessee, i forgot to set the camera to RAW. So in that case it's just best to convert it to black-and-white.

You can see that max stood really still in the water during the 15 second exposure.

This was us sitting by the fire on Sunday night.

That same night i tried again to make a time lapse video of the stars in the sky. Here's the result.

http://youtu.be/5bPj0x4CZkI?hd=1

I still need more practice doing this. There needs to be trees or something in the foreground to give it a sense of scale. But i made sure to point the camera at the north star.

And this is what combining all of those individual photos into one picture looks like. You can really see from this picture how the north star stays constant in the sky.

Before we left on Monday we helped take out the docks and boat hoist. Here's another time lapse of that. It didn't take that long, less than an hour.

http://youtu.be/uPjHwmajupc?hd=1

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New Cottage on the Lake

Friday, 15 June 2012

My sister and brother in law just bought a cottage on the west side of the state. It's on a lake, so last weekend we helped them move the jet boat and boat hoist.

Here's pictures of the weekend we were up north to take the hoist apart. Then this weekend all of the parts to the shore station/boat lift were loaded on to a trailer and strapped down.

On our way with the jet boat and hoist.

Here is a panorama of the lake and cottage.

(click to enlarge)

I tried out my homemade ND filter with my camera. It really makes a calm looking photograph, especially when it's converted to black and white. This picture was a 30 second exposure.

Here's a time lapse video of us putting in the dock and putting the boat hoist together. It only took 2.5 hours to do but unfortunately my camera battery died after about 2 hours. So you miss seeing us push it over the sea wall and into the water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yRTklcaGzc

The rest of the weekend was spent swimming and watching max jumping off the dock, into the water.

This is a picture i took from about 8' past the end of the dock.

That's his Kong he's chasing on the right.

And here's more pictures of the lake and Max.

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