Extremes
2025-02-15
If I'm going to go out and take photos every day this month, I might as well change things up a bit. Day-to-day I tend to shoot with a telephoto lens—it's a fast lens so I can shoot quickly/with low light and it makes it means all the shots in my neighbourhood aren't just houses. My friend li had sent me some good photos they had taken on a point-and-shoot, so I decided to bring my smallest lens with me on Friday. It's a tiny plastic lens the size of a phone lens (I guess probably smaller than some modern phone lenses). I wouldn't want to shoot with it exclusively, but I think it takes some moody looking shots. I decided to follow that up by going for a walk on the river today with it and my largest lens—an even larger telephoto lens that I'm not entirely comfortable walking around with. I thought it was a pretty nice day for a walk, but it maybe was a bit colder than I thought because my camera stopped working after a while and I had to take a break at a coffee shop. I would have liked to have swapped between lenses a bit more often but it wasn't really the weather for it. Credit where credit is due, There was at least one occasion where the only way I could get the shot I wanted was from swapping in the tiny lens. Hope you enjoy
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- partially covered rabbit footprints
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- sawdust on snow
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- grass poking out of snow
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- cracks and bumps on an outdoor rink
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- trees casting shadows on snow
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- snow on a picnic table
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- grass drawing lines in the snow
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- a huge and a tiny lens side-by-side
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- the surface of an outdoor rink
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- a raven walking through snow
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- a branch sticking out of the snow
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- a path along a river
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- a snow-covered bench
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- a snow-covered bench across a frozen river
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- a trail across a frozen river
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see if you can spot this in the previous picture
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- the remains of a dock along a river
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- the concrete underside of a bridge
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- the frozen surface of a river
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- a path along a river
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- a bridge over a frozen river
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- a snow hut on a river
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- a child's drawing of a yeti peaking through a hole in a wall
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- a warming hut built to resemble a child's depiction of a yeti in a cave
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- a warming hut built to resemble a child's depiction of a yeti in a cave as seen from behind
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- a warming hut built to resemble a child's depiction of a yeti in a cave as seen from behind
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- two tall apartment buildings with balconies beside each other
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this is, conservatively, 20 stories up. very reassuring
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- a raven on a roof
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