Agricultural Museum

The Agricultural Museum has a photography contest for members ever year and this year was no exception. When Dave and I got our annual memberships back in March, I read about the contest and waited patiently for the entry time to arrive. And it has - October 31st is the deadline for entry into this year's contest.I began looking into my photos taken at the museum earlier this year and found that the vast majority of them, including the ones I liked the most, were taken before the June 15 start date. I rushed to the museum and tried to take a bunch more to add to the one set that fell within the correct date range. They weren't as good as the ones I had taken before, but they did fall into the correct range and were acceptable enough to be entered into the competition.To be honest, I don't know which of the three images I submitted is my favourite as my favourite from the museum was taken back in April. None of the images have much Photoshop work, in fact the only thing that was done to them in Photoshop was some contrast adjustments and file size and type changes. The rules stipulated that you could only adjust contrast, brightness, and sharpness of the photos, anything else done to the images would eliminate them from the competition.

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A Little Hesitant

This was taken during Easter Weekend and as such the Agricultural Museum had just starting showing their baby animals (lambs, chicks and piglets). This little girl was a little alarmed by the lamb constant bleating - it really wanted its mother.

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Donkey

The Agricultural Museum is one of my favourite places to go to take photos and now that it is getting nicer out the animals are starting to come outside where there is better light. Wahoo!

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#288

This little lady lives at the Agricultural Museum here in Ottawa. It quickly becoming one of my favourite museums for a couple of reasons; it is really close by, it has pretty cheap entrance fee ($5 for non members adults, free for members), is pretty short in length (and can therefore be finished in a pretty short amount of time) and has adorable and photogenic animals. When it comes to photography it presents several challenges; animals that move around and are often being protected by mothers, fences and other animal restraints that decrease the quality of photos and several challenging lighting situations. All in all, it is a pretty great place to go to practice my photo skills without getting too discouraged.

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