The Ben'enator » Winter http://benheide.com Social Portal for Ben Heide Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:03:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 First Family Skate http://benheide.com/archives/173 http://benheide.com/archives/173#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:40:42 +0000 Benjamin http://benheide.com/?p=173 Today was a good day to be a Canadian dad.  I took some time this afternoon to go buy my wife some skates and then we headed down to our “big” pasture so that we could go skating.  This was the first time I’d take my boys (5 years & 7 years) to go skating.  This was a bunch of fun as the boys were super excited.  One person not quite so excited was my wife – you’d also never been skating.

Unfortunately the audio isn’t working on the videos and is totally borked. That being said, you can still see that they are having a whole bunch of fun.

It was a great day and my oldest bay said “That is the most fun we’d had outside ever!”  It makes me proud that I can pass on the love of the outdoors and skating to my family.

]]> http://benheide.com/archives/173/feed 0 Winter Inspiration http://benheide.com/archives/168 http://benheide.com/archives/168#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:24:06 +0000 Benjamin http://benheide.com/?p=168 While winter brings its own beauty, I often find myself uninspired to take out my camera when it gets cold outside.  I was looking through a few of winter pictures that I’d taken last year and hope to get inspired to try out my 300S this winter.  Here in Alberta we are currently sitting under 3 inches of snow and while it looks pretty, the lack of color leaves me a bit deflated.

That being said, I’m pretty happy with how this shot turned out last year.  I believe I was using a D60 at the time.  It worked out quite well and I really like the depth of field in this image.

If you want to take a look at a few other winter pictures and such, I’ve got a couple more worth looking at over in my “Ben Heide” flickr stream.  I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments.

In about a month, I’ll be heading down to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV and will be taking along my camera of course and hope to get some nice night shows of the Las Vegas Strip.  Time will tell how it all works out, but I’m hoping for some nice long exposure shots as well as a some HDR action.

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