I have been playing in CS5 Extended (a trial edition while I decide whether or not I want to upgrade right now) and have done some work with the stacked layers ability. Essentially it allows you to stack your photos and then one way of displaying them is to multiply them on top of each other. It works brilliantly for fireworks and I am pretty happy with how the photos from Canada Day came out.
There are many items on my wish list, a few of which I am in the process of researching and purchasing, but this item is one that I don’t know when I will be able to purchase. 
It is a tiny Nikon camera that is actually a USB flash drive. The little lens comes on to reveal the USB key. How awesome is this?! A friend of mine got one from a Nikon rep when they came to introduce a new line of cameras to the store he works at. He showed it to me and then told me that it can’t be purchased from Nikon yet. You can get similar things from other places but they aren’t Nikon cameras. So for now I will wait patiently until Nikon wishes to release this to the general public.
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Above is the screenshot from Bridge showing the Before and After of today’s SOOC feature.
This was a shot I took of a “ferris wheel” (it is actually called the Skyview of something like that) in Niagara Falls. It is a long exposure shot done at night (f18.0, 6.0 seconds, ISO 200) that I was actually quite happy with straight of the camera. I cropped it down to 16”x20” as that is the size of print I wanted, but it wasn’t actually necessary as the original composition worked quite well. I converted the image to black and white. This was something I struggled with for a little while as I actually found the slight blue colours around the edges of the image very interesting, but the crisp whites when converted to black and white won over in the end.
I spent the past few days in Southern Ontario for business meetings and at night took the opportunity to visit some of the tourist attractions down there and of course made a stop at Niagara Falls. It was a little cold and windy, but well worth it, in my opinion. I just love how they light the falls at night. I waited around until the lights changed to variations I really liked and I think this version is my favourite.
These are the American Falls. The Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls are normally my favourite, but this night the straight, American ones really caught my eye.
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This past Thanksgiving we did a little semi-impromptu family portrait session. It took some coaxing but we eventually got some great smiles out of little Jackson.
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In which Pooh learns about mini-putt.
Taken in the Apple-shaped and -themed golf course at the Big Apple in Colborne, Ontario, Canada.
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In which Pooh becomes a cast member.
This was taken within the Magic Kingdom in Disney World (Florida). This was the Winnie-the-Pooh ride and I just had to take a photo of Pooh in a ride dedicated to himself!!
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In which Pooh finds a fishy friend.
Poor Fish Jenn has unfortunately passed away. She lived a happy life between the two human Jenns at Chris' work though.
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In which Pooh tries to help me at work.
In which Pooh celebrates Earth Day.
This photo was originally taken within Disney's Epcot centre and was supposed to be used for Earth day but I compeltely forgot about it until now.
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In which Pooh finds the chain.
I mentioned the other day that I had done a shoot with Dave and his sister Jessica – it was for their parent’s Christmas present and the above photo is possibly my favourite from the day. I am sure there will be more to come from this shoot.
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This is actually a shot of Dave from the recent shoot I did with him and his sister. Today is our 7 year anniversary and I just wanted to let the whole world know how much I love him.
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A shot I stole while at the office Christmas party.
The final assignment for my Lighting Techniques course was to produce a Magazine Cover. We were allowed to make any sort of magazine we wanted, from wildlife to animal based or even crafting or carpentry. I however, chose to do a Fashion Magazine and am so happy with how it came out. Chris was my model and I was able to use my Bowens 400/400 lighting kit for the first time. Chris and I took the photo using the Bowens kit and then I manipulated the background and text in Photoshop. Slap in a fake UPC and create some clever/interesting article titles (thanks to Chris and Dave for the help there) and you have yourself a magazine cover. This can be found on Flickr as well. 
Assignment 9 was a little difficult for me to distinguish from my other photos as it was all about diffused or bounced flash. I say this because it is very rare that I use direct flash so almost any of my small flash portraits could have been used for this assignment. I ended up submitting the two below photos. The first was shot with the flash in an umbrella setup. The flash was bounced off the white umbrella and onto the subject. The second photo was shot using the small flash attached to the camera and using a diffuser on it while also bouncing it off of the white ceiling above the subject. Diffusing or bouncing the light often enables you to soften the light up which can be harsh and unflattering otherwise. As always, these photos can be found on Flickr as well.
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