Don Komarechka's photostream  

Photographed at The Big Nickel in Sudbury, Ontario (my hometown). I was up in Sudbury over the weekend for a family BBQ and took advantage of a clear night to make another star trail image.

This image is roughly a 50 minute exposure, including one frame during twilight that I jumped into and stared into the stars. This image was taken with a fisheye lens, but I manually corrected for the distortion in such a way that did not push the stars out of the frame (mostly using the warp tool in Photoshop).

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Hoot Hoot! This Eurasian Eagle Owl played nice for the camera and I got a great close-up. It’s a captive bird, held at The Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre just north of where I live. It’s probably the only place I’ll get to photograph this beautiful creature, as they aren’t native to this continent.

Here’s a tip for budding bird photographers: even in direct sunlight, don’t be afraid to use fill flash – it fills in the shadows so nicely on shots like this and really brightens the eyes. Many professional bird photographers use flash, sometimes with a “better beamer” flash extender for the light to reach the subject.

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A fisheye image taken roughly 1800ft above the Toronto waterfront in a helicopter.

This image was taken April 25th, a day prior to posting it here in Flickr, and it came as quite the surprise. I received a phone call asking if I wanted to come along on an aerial shoot, and of course I said yes. I asked when, and the response was "right now". Yikes! This phone call woke me up, scramble!

This is a single image and cropped slightly on the top and bottom. I wanted a slight bend on the horizon for a bit of the "little planet" effect. It was fun and unexpected day!

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Photographed in Wilkins Walk, Barrie Ontario.

This little patch of forest is right in the city and has a number of trails going through it. I jumped off the trails and just followed the stream until I found something interesting.

I was wearing rubber boots, but the water level was about an inch from the top of my boot... risky! :)

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Sometimes the lack of fine details are replaced with strong patterns on the tiny snowflakes, resulting in an entirely different type of beauty. This little plate was photographed at 6:1 magnification, as close as I could get. The angle of the flash allowed for varying brightness on different topographical levels of the snowflake, and defines certain contours for added fun. :)

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