May 16, 2012

Homestead Parklands on Perch Lake

This last weekend I drove over to Perch Lake to take some pictures. I go out there every summer all the time to swim and relax. It’s just a great remote lake that not a ton of people know about so it stays pretty peaceful. There is a nice beach on it, and folks go canoeing on it and scuba diving actually. I usually just float around on an inflatable mattress all day, it’s very pleasant.

Here is the set of pictures: Homestead Parklands on Perch Lake

Here are some specific pictures from the set:

A panorama from the trail out to the beach

From the beach looking back across the lake

From the picnic area above the beach

From the trails around the lake looking back at the beach

May 3, 2012

Whatever Happened to the Hockey of Tomorrow

The end of this hockey season came and playoffs started and our boys were out in the first round, as expected. I was getting some really bad reflection in some pictures so I went for a walk around the rink and got some pictures and different angles then I traditionally take. Overall I think I got some good shots.

Here is the full set: Hockey Night in Blaine 2012-04-29

Here are some shots from it:

April 29, 2012

Roller Derby

The North Star Roller Girls had their championship last night so I went down with my camera to watch and take some pictures. Lighting wasn’t that great so it made taking action pictures tricky. I’m only used to action shots at the hockey rink where the lighting is very bright so I had to do a lot of fiddling to get my camera set up to take good shots. Consequently I ended up with a ton of blurry shots, but I got some to come out pretty good.

Here is the full set: North Star Roller Girls 2012-04-28

And here are some shots from it:

April 27, 2012

Pictures Around Blaine

I went for a bike ride earlier this week and took my camera along with me. The bike trails go down around a few ponds in the are so I was able to take some nice pictures.

Here is the full set: Around Blaine

Here are some pictures from the set:

April 27, 2012

Dark Hockey Saga

Another couple of weeks of hockey to post up here. Playoffs start this week so only one more set after these more then likely. Here are links to the two sets:

Hockey Night in Blaine 2012-04-16
Hockey Night in Blaine 2012-04-22

Here are some good shots from the two sets:

April 11, 2012

Birds and Stars

I don’t just take pictures of hockey, I like taking pictures of the night sky and pictures of nature, right now mostly birds but I want to get more stuff.

Here are some nice bird shots I’ve gotten:

And here are some pictures of stars and the night sky I’ve taken that I dig:

April 11, 2012

Our Hockeys at War

Hockey on Easter, it didn’t make sense but there were practically full teams on both sides so I guess it worked out. No Corey at the game so he’s nowhere in the pictures but plenty of Kevin.

Here is the full set: Hockey Night in Blaine 2012-04-08

Here are some individual shots that I dig:

April 2, 2012

Hockey on Infinite Earths

I have two weeks of hockey pictures to post, and they didn’t even play last night.

Last weekend pictures are here: Hockey Night in Blaine 2012-03-25

Two weekends ago pictures are here: Hockey Night in Blaine 2012-03-18

Both games were a little rough, but that made for some solid pictures, here is a taste:

March 14, 2012

Hockey and Hockeyer

Hockey again this last week, and I got plenty of solid pictures again, here is the set: Hockey Night in Blaine 2012-03-11

The exciting part of this game was that Corey got in a fight and kicked out of the game in the first period. The other dude started it but Corey came out entirely on top. There are a few pictures of it in there.

Here are some good pictures from the set:

March 6, 2012

Hockiest Night

Hockey pictures post again! This game was a rough one, like 6 goals by the other team in the first period. I think the final score was 9-1. Luckily bad games still give me solid pictures, or I’d have no pictures at all. Ha ha! Here is the full set Hockey Night in Blaine 2012-03-04

Since I made a neat picture of Kevin last week, I made a cool one of Corey this week. I got a good set of pictures for it so here it is:

Here are some from the rest of the set: