Historic Acadian Village in New Brunswick - Part 4

This is my fourth post from my visit at the Historic Acadian Village this summer (www.villagehistoriqueacadien.com). I'll eventually run out of pictures and move on to something else :)

  

Historic Acadian Village in New Brunswick - Part 3

This is my third post from my visit at the Historic Acadian Village this summer (www.villagehistoriqueacadien.com).  I have not even gone through all my pictures yet, but here are a few images I took of people working there.  They have to live essentially as Acadians lived a few hundred years ago.  They have to pump their water by hand, pick their food from the gardens, fix fish nets by hand, clean sheep wool to make clothing, and the list goes on.

Fundy Trail 2012

We had a nice trip to St-Martins, New Brunswick this summer and visited the Fundy Trail.  Beautiful place that has expanded so much that you almost need more than a day to do everything now.  My father came along with us on this trip and it was a lot of fun! 

Had many great shots, but selected a few for the photo blog.  I shoot in Manual mode almost all the time and I'm noticing that I'm messing up fewer pictures now.  I sometimes will get a few over or under exposed images, or sometimes the depth-of-field is not exactly what I would like, but getting closer to getting it right the first time as time goes on.  It's all about practicing - so happy shooting! :)

Neth & Rocky's Wedding

This is the first wedding I've attended since I got my first dSLR (the used Nikon D60).  I didn't have any special lens (only the basic 18 - 55mm lens that came with the camera).  With this lens, it is challenging (not really possible for the most part) to properly blur out backgrounds, even with largest aperture possible (bokeh).  I also did not have liberty to move around, as I was not the assigned photographer.  So I did what I could from where I was.  I am posting a few of the pictures that came out decently well (in my humble, uneducated opinion anyways!)  This was a very simple and small wedding, but a very special and happy day for the couple in question nonetheless!

2012-01-07

The first snow man of the year... I worked rather hard to put up this 6'+ pile of snow.  It melted away rather quickly, but that's not really a bad thing - a mild weather with little snow is fine by me :)

A nice fresh snow...

Some boys never grow up!

My son talking on the phone (receiving birthday wishes)

2012-01-05

Another low-light experiment... this time instead of using a candle, I used an LED flash light.  Provided much stronger light and was much easier to work with.  Also could create a "light spot" effect, which I couldn't do with the candle.

A quick snapshot of my only nephew as he came to visit on Caleb's birthday.

This was delicious!  A traditional meal from Edmunston, New Brunswick area cooked by my parents-in-laws.

One of my sister-in-law's flower arrangements in the house.