Here are a few photos from the line of storms that blew by Calgary On Sunday July 6th, from along Hwy 24 between the Trans-Canada and Carseland, Ab.
Though I didn't get to see the big Mother Ship formations, what we did get to see was still impressive. It's hard to grow tired of the skies in Alberta.
Sunset over Cranbrook, BC
I'm currently on a bit of a road trip out to the west coast and have seen some awesome sunsets and some clouds wrapping around mountain tops. This made me want to test something out. So lucky you, the reader, get to be my test subjects.
I recently bought a Canon 6D. I have been wanting to upgrade to a Full Frame SLR and between some OT and my day job and getting some more client work I was able to make it work. I know the arguments of it's not the gear etc and I may get into that another time but not today.
My experiment I am wanting to try and see how it works is:
The 6D has built in wifi, a feature I have always dismissed in DSLRs, until now. Canon has an app called EOS Remote it has a bunch of really neat nerdy things in there which the tech geek in me loves. The one main feature is the ability to view and transfer the .jpg previews onto you iphone. Ok I know Big Deal, but here is my experiment. Those jpg transfers are the photos are here in this blog post, with a mild bit of editing in snapseed
Are they the best quality I could put out, probably not. Are they a preview of what I could be working on and get people interested? Hell yes.
So here is to no more iPhone photos of the LCD screen of my SLR as a preview of what's to come. I'm enjoying this new bit of tech and it may even help me to post more on my blog.
Welcome to my experiment.
Morning clouds in Idaho
Engulfed - Morning clouds in Idaho
I'm excited to share with you that myself, along with two other Canadian photographers, are featured in the April 2014 issue of Absolute Photo. This well written piece by Kingsley Singleton goes beyond the how and digs deeper into why. Sharing some of our philosophies and motivations for choosing black and white in a colour dominated world. The innovative magazine is made for the iPad, available only at the iTunes store. Defiantly worth picking up.
A huge thanks to Kingsley for inviting me to be apart of this. It was an honour and a great experience. Also check out the great work from the other photographers in the feature. Dave MacVicar and my friend Grant Murray
Well, here we are, finally. After talking about this for way too long, due to good mixture of procrastination and somewhat poor excuses, I have finally shipped. This is my new site and I'm quite happy with it and the way it has turned out. If you were at all familiar with my old site you'll probably notice some definite changes. Changes like a more focused approach to my portfolios. You may also notice a lack of colour with my photographs. It's not that I am against colour,actually I quite enjoy it. Black and White however, is the medium that I am currently most comfortable with and I feel that it works best with the photos I am making.
So why a new site? What was wrong with your old one?
Those were some of the questions and or responses I would get when mentioning I was building one. So here are a few answers:
I was really wanted a cleaner, fresher look and the software (www.squarespace.com) I use had come out with their new version (yes I know that was in 2012) that had a lot of new, highly customizable templates to choose from. I took my time learning the ins and outs of most of the templates and just how to get the look and feel I was wanting. More on the nerd side of why, is when squarespace launched their new software, it was more than just new templates. It had been rewritten from the ground up. They changed everything and the way you now add content and edit your site is so much nicer and intuitive then previously, the nerd in me couldn't pass it up.
A second reason is I have been wanting a way to sell prints from my website, without you needing to jump through hoops to do so. Along with the slew of new templates, along came the ability to do just that. I am excited to implement that into the site, I just haven't set that part in motions just yet but it will be coming soon.
There is a handful of people I would like to thank that have helped me with this project. Either with giving an objective view on the basic look of the site. With the curation of photographs and proofreading /editing through portions of the writing and just overall encouragement. To save myself and possibly the ones who I am thanking from embarrassment, I'll just say; you know who you are. Without your help this may have never been completed.
Thank you.
-Kris Schofield
I've seen a lot of them. Some have been blah or so-so. Most have been stereotypical but rarely over the top.
On Saturday Jan 18 my wife and I went out for a drive. We went down to Nanton, Ab. Then headed west to Black Diamond and Turner Valley. While walking around Black Diamond after a visit to the Blue Rock Gallery, there was a really nice chinook arc just to the west of us. Time to head back home. We went through Turner Valley and the curiosity of flood damage got the better of me. That's when it happened. The blanket of red. Not just the sky, but everything.
This sunset fell into the category of over the top. Well over. The photos of this I tried with my SLR I haven't taken a look at just yet. But I am extremely happy I had my phone with me to at least record what we were seeing. And that's where these photos are from. My phone. Unedited. Enjoy. I sure did.
