added a few new pictures

hello! so my weekend was quite busy. friday was a write off seeing as i just got off the overnight shift. saturday we went to a friends house for dinner and ate a lot of food and hung out with the kids! sunday, we got our dog trained by "Barkbusters". It worked out quite well, and we are seeing a big improvment!

i did get some time to work on some pictures though. we will get to them in a minute. but first, i sold 2 more prints!! thats really good news and i am really happy to see my work go up on more peoples walls!

i also ordered a Nikon BR-2A reversing ring to tide me over until i get a macro lens :) once it arrives, i will post some pictures up for all to see!

without further adieu, here are the 3 new pictures i put up last night!




'Silk'




'Scorched Earth'




'Venting Spirits'


Hope you enjoy, as always, if you pop by the gallery, don't be shy and sign the guestbook or leave some comments! i always love to hear from you!

see ya next time!
C

New pictures will be up this weekend!

Hey all,
just wanted to give a quick update, i am working on some new pictures to add to the gallery this weekend! so stay tuned, i will add some links once they are up!

nothing else is really new, my lovely wife got me these a few days ago, so i am playing around with them, i think will make some neat effects with macro photos, water drops and other things.

i am also planning to get an infrared filter soon as well. i have been able to reproduce the effect in post processing sometimes, but i want the real thing :)

in the future, when i upgrade to a new body, i will keep my d80, and get it modified for solely IR use!! but thats a long ways off, unless i win the lottery or sell a lot more prints (hint hint :) )

anyways, i have to work tonight (ugh) and there is lots of cleaning to do around the house, and i need to work out!

also, my condolences go out to the family of my Si-Kung, Grand Master Sunny Tang (Dunn Wah) of Scarborough, whose mother recently passed.

take care everyone
C

An update

Hey everyone, so i have had a pretty busy couple of weeks...we went to toronto and dunnville, ontario last weekend to visit my grandmother and my uncle! we had a really good time as always! There is a link in the sidebar to his blog "talking about cancer" that is a very good read. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer about 7 years ago, he thought he got rid of it, but it came back again. The worst things always happen to the best people. He is such a strong person. it really makes you think about the important things in life and that would be family, friends, and just making the most out of everything.
My aunt and uncle were generous enough to invite us back for a few days around easter! so that will be fun. and that weekend is also my wife's birthday, so it will be a good time. anyways, i am off now, i just got home from a night shift, and need to eat! hopefully there will be some new pictures uploaded to my gallery later this week! stay tuned

to my uncle doug, you are an inspiration! stay strong, we love you very much and will see you soon!

C

some new pictures up!

hey all!

as you may have noticed, the layout of this page is ever changing. i am trying to match it as closely as possible to my gallery pages so the transition is barely noticeable. i think it is coming along nicely! i am getting a lot of help from Denise Goldberg (website here) who is an avid poster and blog customization expert at Dgrin (the Smugmug users forum). So thanks again Denise!

Well, i have put up some new images to my gallery! a few in the 'Landscape' page and finally a couple in the 'Break from the Norm' page.

be sure to check them out!




'No Escape'




'Tree of Life'




'Mystic'

Enjoy, and talk to you later

C

Been working on my Gallery page

Hey everybody! long time no talk.
things have been crazy around here! new work hours, my sisters wedding in a couple of days, laziness, etc.

but i have been working hard on getting lots of new stuff onto my gallery page. i also lowered the prices about 10-15% for prints in honor of this whole page getting up and running and all that!

so feel free to stop by and check it out, see the contact page if you want to get in touch me! also, leave comments and feedback, i always love hearing some constructive criticism or if one of my pictures caught your eye! here is a few of my faves so far:

thats all for now!
i plan to be working more on this page now that i have my gallery customization pretty much where i want it, so i can now focus on doing some of those things i talked about a long time ago on here, ie: reviews, techniques, etc.

okay, its off to bed, enjoy the pictures and take care

till next time
C

things are looking up :)

Hey everyone!
so i just got back from jamaica a few days ago! i had a blast! the wedding ceremony was amazing! i took about 600 pictures while i was there, and i am quite happy with a lot of them!
since i have been back, i have been working hard on my smugmug page (looky here). there is more photos being added quite frequently. so please check it out, and let me know what you think! feedback and critiques are always welcome (constructive of course).

also, my beautiful wife bought me a cokin circular polarizer as a wedding gift :) very excited about that, it came in handy on the beach!

well, i have to go to work now, so i will leave you with a shot of us from our wedding to make you all jealous!



see ya!!

c

Some Construction Going on

okay, so some of my links in my old blog posts are going to be messed up for a bit!
i am transferring my photo hosting to smugmug!! thats really exciting news, that means prints will be able to be purchased and my site will be far more organized. so i am keeping flickr for stuff i want to post to forums and stuff, so i am purging it right now, thats why the links wont work. bear with me, everything will be in order in a few weeks!!
check it out: http://craiggosling.smugmug.com/
take care!!
C

new year! new gear

hi
its 3 weeks into the new year! 2009, crazy stuff....the states has a new president as of today!! thats really good, glad to see bush out of there and am very interested in what obama is going to do for the country. we need someone like him up here in canada! lets see, what else is new, i am getting married in a couple of weeks in jamaica!! i am super excited about that. my son is now officially a year old as of december 27th, cant call him a baby anymore, now he is a toddler. he is very close to walking on his own and is imitating so much (he can wave now!!)

hope the holidays were good to everyone. they certainly were for me. my soon to be wife was, as usual too good to me! she got me a bunch of nice clothes, and a lowepro primus AW camera bag!! from the rest of the family i got about $450 in gift certificates to my fave camera shop. so after much deliberating, i went to the store on boxing day, and bought a whole bunch of stuff:

• SB-600 speedlight
• mc-dc1 cable release
• nikkor 50mm f1.8 lens w/ uv filter
• sto-fen omni bounce for speedlight
• spare 4GB sd card

that should tide me over for a bit, dont you think?
i LOVE the lens, its barely left my camera since i got it. such a quality difference from that to the kit lens. and the razor thin DOF is very fun to play with. the flash is also amazing and opens up all sorts of possibilities. dayna really wanted me to get it after i borrowed my dads and she saw the pictures, everything is so bright and vivid. if you take a lot of indoor shots, i highly recommend it! a big step up from the little built in flash.

i am going to set up a proper website soon with a image gallery and whatnot. a couple of friends were looking through my images and found the layouts of the flickr page and blog a little busy/confusing. so i will probably keep this page for writing about whatever and have the other site as a means to purchase prints and look at what i am currently working on! i know its not much now, but its hard to get out all the time, plus its friggin cold here now. i went out the other day to shoot this shot:





and nearly froze my fingers off! plus i dont have winter boots so my shoes were full of snow. oh well, i got the shot and it turned out as i wanted :)
i also got the chance to play around with light painting the other day, this is something i have been wanting to do for awhile but never got around to it! so dayna was out with a friend and the little man was asleep so i went to the basement and experimented a little.
here is a couple of shots i thought were cool:




well, thats all for now, i am off to bed! have to work tomorrow ugh...why cant i just win the lottery??

oh and just one more quick thing!! i sold 4 of my pictures last week!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was getting a little discouraged to be honest, but yah, 4 pictures!! they are on there way here from the print shop, i am super excited... btw, i am happy to sell any of my pictures as prints, so please buy some :D

phew that was long winded!! good night

happy holidays!!

just wanted to wish everyone a happy holidays, however and whatever you celebrate! thanks for checking the blog out. my new years resolution (one of them anyways) is to update this page more!
i have begun working on my long term review for the D80, so thats coming along.
i also got to play around with a sb600 speedlight yesterday, and it was amazing! so for christmas, i had asked for money from everyone to get a new lens, but now i am seriously thinking about the flash. it changes the images completely! you will see some in a little bit, when i get around to posting some on my flickr page!
on another note, i joined deviantart recently. figured it was a good place to get some images out there as well. i just started that page, so eventually i will have prints available to purchase as well as some desktop wallpapers and things like that! here is the link: My deviantART page
check it out, and leave some comments if you would like, i always enjoy receiving feedback!
take care everyone and all the best in the new year!

Happy Halloween!

loving it!
Originally uploaded by supervillain1

Here's my little guy all dressed up for halloween! we went out trick or treating and had a grand ol time!