Photography by John Reeve
- Photographs of the Yukon. Photographs of other places from a Yukoner’s perspective.
- Nature, landscapes, flora and fauna, close-ups, abstracts, impressionistic images, more...
- Photography for the art of it. Photography for the joy of seeing.
“Creating photographs helps me to better see the world around me. It simplifies
perception and focuses my mind’s eye to penetrate through the
visual and mental clutter of everyday life. And sometimes
peering through the viewfinder, removed from normal human
perspective and context, I see wondrous visions that would
never appear to me any other way. As such, my camera is an
instrument of discovery and imagination.”
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(Click on Image)Pentax K10D, Kiron 105mm f/2.8 macro @ f/2.8
Feature Photo
A recently photographed or
recently edited image. Updated frequently, usually weekly to
monthly.
View previous Feature Photos
Posted December 31st, 2011
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(Click on Image)Solstice Afternoon
Two hours after the sun
had crested its low arc across the southern sky, it is about to
disappear behind the distant mountains. Three exposures taken at 2 stop
intervals were processed in Photomatix and further in Lightroom and
Photoshop to create this HDR image.Pentax K-5, SMC Pentax DA* 60-250mm f/4 ED [IF] SDM @ f/8
News & Notes
Look
here for announcements of major additions or changes to this
website,
developments affecting the author that may be relevant to
content you
will see on the site and, perhaps, an occasional news or
informational
bit that might be of specific interest to visitors here but
you would
not likely see elsewhere. Don't expect frequent posts to
this section,
my priority for the website is the photos.
August 16, 2011 - The Whitehorse Photography Club Presents André Gallant : Sept 23 to 25, 2011
If you are in Whitehorse or the
surrounding region, you may not want to miss this weekend workshop by
the award winning, widely published New Brunswick photographer, teacher
and author. A close associate of Freeman Patterson, André Gallant is
best known for his impressionistic landscape photographs and he will be
sharing with us the techniques he uses to create these dreamy images.
There also will be a presentation on travel photography as well as a
session on photographing people. The event begins on Friday evening
with an audiovisual presentation that should appeal to a wide audience
including non-photographers. The main workshop sessions take place
Saturday. On Sunday there will be a hands-on field outing followed by
an evaluation of selected photographs from each participant.
For more information, view the information poster and detailed description. Also, check out André Gallant's website at www.andregallant.com.
If you are interested in attending, email your request for a registration package to Whitehorse Photography Club.
Note that I am involved in this workshop as an executive member of the club.
For more information, view the information poster and detailed description. Also, check out André Gallant's website at www.andregallant.com.
If you are interested in attending, email your request for a registration package to Whitehorse Photography Club.
Note that I am involved in this workshop as an executive member of the club.
The main reason for this overhaul is to upgrade and modernize the
source code behind the pages to provide flexibility for continuing
updates. This should improve page loading as well, but there are
additional important changes to enhance your viewing experience. If you
are familiar with this site you may already have noticed that the page
you are on has been shortened, with brief summaries of the old posts
below linking to the full articles and photos which have been archived in
a new page. Similarly, the main Feature Photos index page, which had
grown quite unwieldy, has been divided by year into more easily loaded
pages. But the biggest improvement here is seen when you click on a Feature Photo
image ... the enlarged view window now has navigation buttons so you
can advance through the photos in this view without having to return to
the index page each time. Pre-loading of the next/preceding image should
minimize your wait for successive images to display. The enlarged view
now can be accessed even if you do not have javascript enabled in your
browser but, if possible, you still should enable javascript for full
functionality including display optimized for your screen resolution.
Note that the url's have changed for all the pages in the Feature Photos section so please update any bookmarks you may have set.
This upgrade has been a long time in the works. Well over a year ago I realized I was going to have to switch to new web authoring software. I have been using NetObjects Fusion 7, a neutered version of which was provided free by my web hosting service, but it does not work satisfactorily in Windows Vista on my laptop and I knew it would have the same issues in Windows 7. My trusty Dell desktop XP machine was already over 6 years old at that time and starting to struggle under the burden of modern applications and all the security software one needs running in the background to stay safe these days. I would soon need a new computer with a new operating system. I was never happy with NetObjects anyway, especially with the restrictions of my web host's version which limits publishing to its server only with no real possibility to test first on the desktop. Plus it generates poor quality code that is both outdated and not fully compliant even with legacy web standards. That last point was problematic for editing my existing pages in another application and I decided I needed to rebuild much of the site from scratch.
Feeding Baby Flicker
These
birds were nesting in the trunk of an almost dead tree near my house. I
tried for days to get a sharp photo of them feeding but their heads
oscillate violently back and forth during the transfer and all I got
was dozens of blurred images. The other two chicks had taken flight and
it was my last chance with this late bloomer when I boosted my ISO to
4500 to achieve a fast enough shutter speed to freeze them. The Pentax
K-5 was up to it and, after some work in Photoshop with the Noise Ninja
plug-in, this image yielded a satisfactory 11" x 14" print.
Pentax K-5, Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM @ 400mm, 1/750sec @ f/8, ISO 4500
As this site is a labour of love that does not generate any revenue, I
chose another free (and unrestricted in this case) application as my
new web editor, the open-source KompoZer. I have since supplemented it
with BlueGriffon and I use
PSPad for direct editing of code. KompoZer proved to be even buggier than NetObjects, with an alarming propensity for annihilating large portions of a page upon applying the save command. But its capabilities are comprehensive enough for my purposes, it produces modern code with full implementation of CSS and the quality of that code is impeccable so my new pages should be widely compatible and adaptable into the future.
There was a learning curve with the new software and especially with the new architecture in order to effectively implement CSS. My progress has been excruciatingly slow. Web design is not desktop publishing, there are very real limits to what is possible and even within those limits the means to achieving the desired look and layout can seem quite obtuse. I can lose hours getting a single element on a page the way I want it, and that has only gradually improved with practice. Bugs in the software have brought me up against a brick wall from time to time and incurred catastrophic setbacks when I lost huge chunks of work on a couple of occasions before I learned to save and back up with compulsive frequency.
Quite honestly, though, the main reason this upgrade has taken so long is that life keeps getting in the way of me spending time on it. It has been a busy period for me, including major renovations to my house last summer that dragged into the winter ... and I still have some painting and staining to do. More relevant to the context here, I got my new computer in January and much of my computing time through the winter went into getting it set up. (I seem prone to making things hard for myself with complex configurations.) I might also mention that I spent some time familiarizing myself with a new camera, a relatively brief diversion to be sure.
The upgrade is not yet complete but it is now coherent within the new and rebuilt pages as well as between the new and the old so I am ready to upload all that I have done. And hopefully I will not again have to fire up my old computer to run NetObjects. The About page and the Galleries index page will be rebuilt in conjunction with updates to their content and I hope eventually to get around to completing the reconstruction of the Feature Photo pages, which to this point has been done back to the beginning of 2009. Other, static pages will live on in their current form ... they work okay and I have no reason to redo them if I will not be editing their content.
I have tested the new pages in current or recent versions of all the popular browsers. Since these pages were created mainly in KompoZer and BlueGriffon, which are based on the Firefox code, you can expect reliable rendering in Firefox. But I did not encounter any significant issues in any of the browsers, except I would advise avoiding the "back to main page" button in the Feature Photo enlarged view if you are using Opera. If you still are stuck on Internet Explorer 6 or earlier, sorry, I have employed some code that is not supported by these old versions so many of these pages cannot be expected to display properly. I cannot begin to test all possible configurations and it is possible that you may experience problems that I didn't ... or you may find oversights such as broken links. If so, I would appreciate it if you Report Problems so I can try to fix the issues.
Note that the url's have changed for all the pages in the Feature Photos section so please update any bookmarks you may have set.
This upgrade has been a long time in the works. Well over a year ago I realized I was going to have to switch to new web authoring software. I have been using NetObjects Fusion 7, a neutered version of which was provided free by my web hosting service, but it does not work satisfactorily in Windows Vista on my laptop and I knew it would have the same issues in Windows 7. My trusty Dell desktop XP machine was already over 6 years old at that time and starting to struggle under the burden of modern applications and all the security software one needs running in the background to stay safe these days. I would soon need a new computer with a new operating system. I was never happy with NetObjects anyway, especially with the restrictions of my web host's version which limits publishing to its server only with no real possibility to test first on the desktop. Plus it generates poor quality code that is both outdated and not fully compliant even with legacy web standards. That last point was problematic for editing my existing pages in another application and I decided I needed to rebuild much of the site from scratch.
Feeding Baby Flicker
These
birds were nesting in the trunk of an almost dead tree near my house. I
tried for days to get a sharp photo of them feeding but their heads
oscillate violently back and forth during the transfer and all I got
was dozens of blurred images. The other two chicks had taken flight and
it was my last chance with this late bloomer when I boosted my ISO to
4500 to achieve a fast enough shutter speed to freeze them. The Pentax
K-5 was up to it and, after some work in Photoshop with the Noise Ninja
plug-in, this image yielded a satisfactory 11" x 14" print.Pentax K-5, Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM @ 400mm, 1/750sec @ f/8, ISO 4500
PSPad for direct editing of code. KompoZer proved to be even buggier than NetObjects, with an alarming propensity for annihilating large portions of a page upon applying the save command. But its capabilities are comprehensive enough for my purposes, it produces modern code with full implementation of CSS and the quality of that code is impeccable so my new pages should be widely compatible and adaptable into the future.
There was a learning curve with the new software and especially with the new architecture in order to effectively implement CSS. My progress has been excruciatingly slow. Web design is not desktop publishing, there are very real limits to what is possible and even within those limits the means to achieving the desired look and layout can seem quite obtuse. I can lose hours getting a single element on a page the way I want it, and that has only gradually improved with practice. Bugs in the software have brought me up against a brick wall from time to time and incurred catastrophic setbacks when I lost huge chunks of work on a couple of occasions before I learned to save and back up with compulsive frequency.
Quite honestly, though, the main reason this upgrade has taken so long is that life keeps getting in the way of me spending time on it. It has been a busy period for me, including major renovations to my house last summer that dragged into the winter ... and I still have some painting and staining to do. More relevant to the context here, I got my new computer in January and much of my computing time through the winter went into getting it set up. (I seem prone to making things hard for myself with complex configurations.) I might also mention that I spent some time familiarizing myself with a new camera, a relatively brief diversion to be sure.
The upgrade is not yet complete but it is now coherent within the new and rebuilt pages as well as between the new and the old so I am ready to upload all that I have done. And hopefully I will not again have to fire up my old computer to run NetObjects. The About page and the Galleries index page will be rebuilt in conjunction with updates to their content and I hope eventually to get around to completing the reconstruction of the Feature Photo pages, which to this point has been done back to the beginning of 2009. Other, static pages will live on in their current form ... they work okay and I have no reason to redo them if I will not be editing their content.
I have tested the new pages in current or recent versions of all the popular browsers. Since these pages were created mainly in KompoZer and BlueGriffon, which are based on the Firefox code, you can expect reliable rendering in Firefox. But I did not encounter any significant issues in any of the browsers, except I would advise avoiding the "back to main page" button in the Feature Photo enlarged view if you are using Opera. If you still are stuck on Internet Explorer 6 or earlier, sorry, I have employed some code that is not supported by these old versions so many of these pages cannot be expected to display properly. I cannot begin to test all possible configurations and it is possible that you may experience problems that I didn't ... or you may find oversights such as broken links. If so, I would appreciate it if you Report Problems so I can try to fix the issues.
Older News:
March 8, 2009 - New Gallery: Snow Sculptures
May 11, 2008 - Magnified Images of Feature Photos
Clicking on an image in the
main Feature Photos page opens a popup with a larger, high
quality version of the photo that is an appropriate size
for your screen resolution. JavaScript must be enabled in
your browser for this to work.
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February 18, 2008 - New Camera and Lenses = New
Perspectives
Since
going digital in 2004 I have been shooting with a Konica
Minolta Dimage
A2, a compact sensor, fixed lens camera, albeit one of the
most
advanced examples of its type, designed for serious
photographers. Now
I have purchased a Pentax K10D digital SLR, with which I
can use all my
old lenses from my Pentax 35mm SLR's, including my much
loved Kiron
105mm f/2.8 Macro and Pentax A 200mm f/4. New digitally
optimized
lenses work better with digital cameras though, so I also
have bought
some new lenses: Sigma AF 10-20mm f/4.0-5.6 EX DC, Tamron
AF 18-250mm
f/3.5-6.3 DiII LD IF Macro, Pentax FA 50mm f/1.4, Sigma AF
70mm f/2.8
EX DG Macro and Pentax AF 31mm f/1.8 Limited.
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December 31, 2007 - Added page for Recent Feature Photos
December 2, 2007 - Major site update ... Finally!
The
first update to this site comes after much grappling with
web editing
concepts and methods and with uncooperative software.
Improvements to
the underlying structure of the pages should make future
updates easier
so more frequent, smaller updates are anticipated. At this
time,
notable additions include a "Feature
Photo" home page feature that will be updated
fairly often and a few new galleries
in Flash format.
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April 16, 2007 - Welcome to “Visions of a Contemporary
Yukon Sourdough”
"After
considerably more learning and preparation time than I had
counted on,
I am almost ready to upload my brand new website, version
0.1. As
recently as six months ago, if anyone had suggested I
should have my
own website I would have scoffed at the idea ..."
I came to a realization that sharing my photos via this site would bolster my reasons to keep creating images and help motivate me to keep advancing my photographic and photo editing skills.
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I came to a realization that sharing my photos via this site would bolster my reasons to keep creating images and help motivate me to keep advancing my photographic and photo editing skills.
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