Bruce Dean (Puchinpappy)'s photos

This photo demonstrates what we are going to encounter again as the winds have shifted and we are going to experience heavy doses of the smoke coming from the fires in Western Canada. This photo was taken at 1530 in the afternoon.

The Edmonton downtown in the background.

The back-lighting is offset by a welcome reflected fill light from the house window across the street.

From our back yard.

No time for fancy settings, it was getting away.

Stop signs in a historically French part of Edmonton displays both official languages. This is funny to me because when I was France I saw Stop signs that said Stop, not Arret. This is not the stop sign that ends submissions for the week on the Saturday Self-challenge. The challenge for this week is "Find something red, shoot it, but then you change the image into black and white." For Sight and Sound, "Stop in the Name of Love" en Francais. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gNW6xsNHkw

Although it looks like spider webs we think the water drops were found on some kind of fungus growth. My wife thought that the drops looked like oysters.

Saturday Self-challenge: Zoom Burst

The Edmonton Police Service has some fun at their tent at Edmonton's Heritage Festival.

They might not be glamorous but at least they will stay long enough to get their profile shot.

Performers at Edmonton's Heritage Festival.

At the Edmonton Heritage Festival.

Dancing in front of the Iranian pavillion at Edmonton’s Heritage Festival.

For the Saturday Self-challenge: Silhouette. The sun is setting in the northwest at 2130 hrs as our backyard faces north. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aae_RHRptRg

For the Sunday Self-challenge, fill flash. The same subject without the flash is in the PIP. In total one PIP is back-lit, one is in shade and this one is flash-lit.

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