C Dunning Photography

I added 10 new shots to my flower gallery

2012-01-21T12:21:00.000-08:00

All photos taken with my Olympus e 420 and the 70-300 mm lens
here is one of the photos

floral gallery is here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p187470372

wow time flies

2012-01-09T17:27:00.000-08:00

First of all, happy new year! on another note, hockey season has started ...
and I have taken lots of photos. please check out my hockey page for all the shots. Here are some current galleries
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/f1068308630

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/f137538968

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/f489617091

instead of posting single galleries i'm giving you groups

rocks and water gallery

2011-08-22T13:44:00.000-07:00

I just added 40 more photos to this gallery all from august 20th, 2011 taken with my olympus e420 dslr. It was a beautiful day to take photos down by the water. I hope you like them..
you can find the gallery at the following location:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p393523416

one of the photos from that day is :

more clouds to view

2011-08-21T16:02:00.000-07:00

I have added 28 more photos to my clouds page on my website. I have a love of clouds and often do take photos of them. All 28 photos were taken with my olympus e420 dslr this past weekend on august 19th 2011. I hope you like them as much as I do.. some of the cloud photos do have a bird in flight :-)

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p404395203

Thief River Falls, Minnesota

2011-08-15T05:08:00.000-07:00

I was there this past weekend and it was a beautiful weekend to take photos - I was finally able to take in the river walk or at least parts of it. I got some great photos and I want to share them on my site. I picked 81 photos so far and posted them on the site. All photos are taken with my olympus e420 dslr although I did take some with my iphone that I may post up there soon.

you can check out the thief river falls gallery here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p290152055

more photos added to the floral gallery

2011-08-14T17:07:00.000-07:00

I added 14 more photos to the floral gallery on my website all taken in thief river falls this past weekend.

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p187470372

the heat is on....

2011-08-09T09:07:00.000-07:00

I have just added 14 more photos to my fire gallery on my website :-) I hope you like a little heat...
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p1024656533

seagulls gallery

2011-08-09T07:54:00.001-07:00

I have added a gallery specifically for seagulls, as I often take photos of them and I think they deserve their own page as does the pelicans :-)
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p699699770

avian gallery

2011-08-09T06:22:00.000-07:00

I just added 15 more photos to my avian gallery :-)

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p760927228

floral gallery

2011-08-08T17:35:00.001-07:00

I have just added 10 new photos to the gallery, I hope you like them.

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p187470372

Winnipeg Zoo Page

2011-08-05T11:12:00.000-07:00

I have added 36 more photos onto my winnipeg zoo page :-)

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p947918886

Cemetery Group

2011-08-05T09:31:00.001-07:00

I have now added a new group to my website labelled, cemetery. The first group of photos is from Elmwood Cemetery here in winnipeg. It is one of my favorites, not only because it is reported to be haunted. They do give ghost tours

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p605931706

rocks and water gallery

2011-08-05T08:32:00.001-07:00

I have now added more photos to the rocks and water gallery.

I hope you like them.

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p393523416

clouds gallery

2011-08-05T08:27:00.001-07:00

I added more photos to my clouds website :-) I hope you like them. I always loved clouds.

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p404395203

And I have also added a watermark to all my photos to discourage people from downloading them.

Kidder Recreation Area - Wahpeton North Dakota

2011-07-29T11:27:00.000-07:00

Fast becoming the best "catch" of the day is the Kidder Recreation Area in north Wahpeton.

The Kidder Recreation Area is 26 acres, located along the Red River. The Kidder Recreation Area is also home to "Wahpper", the World's Largest Catfish.

You will see Wahpper as well as some shots of the river :-)

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p158294135

Breckenridge, Minnesota

2011-07-29T08:24:00.001-07:00

Breckenridge, Minnesota, on the beautiful prairie of the Red River Valley of the North, is a unique small city of 3,559 people. It's located on the Headwaters of the Red River of the North, the longest North-flowing river in the United States, flowing 549 miles to Lake Winnipeg, Canada, and from there to Hudson Bay.

As part of my trip to Wahpeton, North Dakota we traveled across the bridge to Breckenridge to see the start of the red river. I have 26 photos loaded to the site and I hope you like it

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p732540901

pelicans :-)

2011-07-28T13:52:00.000-07:00

I have added 19 photos to my pelican gallery on my website. I do love to take photos of pelicans I think they are such neat birds.

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p988574644

Chahinkapa Zoo, Wahpeton North Dakota

2011-07-25T10:20:00.000-07:00

Recently I was in Wahpeton and spent a few hours at the zoo . I hope you like the photos that I took

you can find the gallery here:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p911169206

rocks and water gallery added

2011-07-25T10:17:00.000-07:00

I have added a gallery for photos of rocks and water mostly taken at sunset but with no sun in the photo. I hope you like them.

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p393523416

Here is a photo for you to enjoy.

added print ordering to website

2011-07-25T10:15:00.001-07:00

I have now added print ordering on my website so you can buy directly off of it.

www.cdunningphotography.ca

red squirrel :-)

2011-05-24T18:56:00.000-07:00

a gallery for a red squirrel :-)
I added 20 photos to this gallery for now, i'm sure i'll be adding lots more over the summer

all taken with my olympus e-420 dslr

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p652219822

flood photos in East Grand Forks, ND

2011-04-25T18:49:00.000-07:00

I went to take photos in East Grand Forks and Grand Forks in the US and I'm in the process of uploading 61 photos to the 2011 flood photos gallery on my website. I figured I should put all the photos in one gallery. its easier to view them. Here is a sample photo and the link to the gallery.

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p542918606

2011 flood photos

2011-04-13T16:43:00.001-07:00

The photos currently in this gallery are all from Stephen Juba park in Downtown Winnipeg. I walked along the path with a friend and took some shots I have uploaded 44 shots so far. I will include shots from other parts of the city and perhaps in the united states to this gallery as well.

The photo I am posting in this post - I used the Pinhole filter on - my olympus sp 800 uz

to see the rest of the photos in this set please click on the link below
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p542918606

Mondo Circus

2011-04-13T15:57:00.000-07:00

I was at the 2 pm show on April 2nd here at the Mts center. It started off 10 min late because of all the people on the floor wanting elephant and camel rides. It started off with a girl sliding down a wire and I thought, cool. However I found it kinda slow and sometimes hard to follow when they have things going on in all 3 rings at the same time. I would've thought they would've had more clowns then the one they had. This is the lion that started off the show. If you want to see the rest of the images that I took from that day click on the link below.

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p43718950

Disney on Ice

2011-02-25T05:20:00.000-08:00

Mickey and Minnie's Magical Journey had its first showing at the MTS center last night and I was there in section 218. We had fabulous seats and had a lot of fun. It was well presented and was just under 2 hours with the 15 minute intermission. The cartoon shows presented were the lion king, the little mermaid, lilo and stich and peter pan. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy and Goofy were also present but weren't on the ice long they were there more for introductions and let the other cartoons have the stage. The show really kept your attention focused on the ice and to what was going on, you definitely wont be bored at this event. Since I am a big kid I'd say that I would go see this again in a heartbeat. Its like watching your cartoons come to life :D

anyway, I took around 500 photos but decided to keep 125 of them and they are already posted on my site.

The link to the entire gallery is here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p321555660

red river freeze - winnipeg roller derby

2011-02-25T05:06:00.000-08:00

It was the Murder City Maidens vs the Red Deer Nightshades. It was held at the winnipeg convention center and I've always been kinda curious on why you walk through metal detectors and...they don't really check you. We just heard..oh ..it will beep anyway because of change, keys etc..and they just let you through. not that anything happened or ..well would ..I just find it curious.

Anyway, it was a fun event, even though I was cheering for the Murder City Maidens, the Red Deer team was very good as well and won the event.

I do have some photos and I will show the link to them now :D

the link to the gallery is here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p183175139

tenacious D

2011-01-04T15:26:00.000-08:00

with Jack Black, the story of his "band" ...funny but pretty dumb in parts. I have seen the movie before. Meatloaf plays his dad in the beginning of the movie.

Jack and his partner go after the magic guitar pick that was supposed to be created from a devil's tooth...
kinda goofy ending really...

3.5 out of 5

would I watch it again? I don't know...

the condemned

2011-01-04T15:23:00.000-08:00

This movie has stone cold steve austin in it.. first time seeing this movie or even hearing of it...
seemed pretty good of what I watched of it..
I was making dinner at the same time.

the movie itself reminded me a bit of death race, another cool movie that pits prisoners against each other...
death race with a car..and condemned on foot...
pretty good scenes and premise..the prisoners were dropped off on a secluded island given weapons and well..the last one to survive got his freedom while the whole thing was taped live and streaming over the Internet.

I would definitely watch this again

4.5 out of 5 stars

mirrors

2011-01-04T15:21:00.001-08:00

I watched Mirrors with Kiefer Sutherland, although I have seen it before. It does get quite gruesome in parts but thats ok with me.

Kiefer finds trapped spirits in a burned out store...as a night watchman and some of the things he seems is pretty gross but cool at the same time. I rather enjoyed the movie..

4 out of 5 stars

Aliens in the attic

2011-01-02T07:42:00.000-08:00

I just finished watching Aliens in the attic and I found it pretty funny. I am happy that I watched it and I would definitely watch it again. Storyline was about some kids that went on a family vacation went to fix the satellite on the roof and found 4 aliens...in the attic..who then tried to mind control the kids. One of the aliens did put a mind control device on the teenage daughter's boyfriend and that was pretty funny..especially when the other kids got a hold of the controller.

very well done.and very funny.loved it

5 out of 5 stars..
and I would definitely watch it again :D

man on the moon

2011-01-02T07:40:00.000-08:00

I watched Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey it was of course about the life of Andy Kaufmann..
fantastic movie. I think he played him really well and kept me interested throughout the movie.
Funny that I haven't watched the movie until yesterday. I guess I've been meaning to ..but never did..
I try to watch all of Jim's movies because I like him as an actor and comedian.

I would give it 4 out of 5 stars.
and yes I would watch it again.

13th floor

2011-01-01T18:19:00.000-08:00

I watched 13th floor because of the actor that was in it.
He plays on law and order criminal intent. His name is Vincent D'Onofrio and I like him.
Plus I remember wanting to see the movie when it came out but never did for some strange reason..
the plot line is different...its a virtual reality within a virtual reality...
a murder happens...that appears to be in virtual reality but the murder investigation is real...
its pretty cool how the characters jump back and forth between realities...

I would give it 4 out of 5 stars...
and yes I would watch it again.

fracture

2011-01-01T17:04:00.000-08:00

the 3rd movie I watched today on netflix, it was pretty good. I enjoyed it.
Anthony Hopkins stars in the movie as a man who kills his wife...
and sets a trap for his wife's lover who happens to be the cop who arrests him for her murder and takes his confession. I think it was very well done. He goes up against a young prosecutor who doesn't know how to handle him. It does have a good story line and kept me interested in the movie all the way through.

5 out of 5 stars.
I would buy this movie and I would definitely watch it again.

fly me to the moon

2011-01-01T14:28:00.000-08:00

The 2nd movie I watched today on netflix, was fly me to the moon, a cartoon about 3 flies that want to go to the moon. I think that one too was supposed to be 3d....
but I watched it in 2d.

it was kinda cute...had some pretty good voices in it.
including Tim Curry and Christoper Lloyd.
the 3 houseflies manage to get onto the space shuttle and make it to the moon...helping out the astronauts when there was a short in one of the lines

I would give it 2 1/2 out of 5 stars...
it was cute..but would I watch it again?
I don't know...

Open water 2: Adrift

2011-01-01T14:24:00.000-08:00

Now that I have netflix at home I can watch a ton of movies..for $8/month. Pretty cheap! and it works fabulous. For a movie lover that is quite the deal and I can watch movies before I buy them..or just watch them over and over on the computer.

The first movie I watched was Open Water 2: Adrift. I have the first one on dvd so I thought I would watch the 2nd version online. It wasn't bad..although I think I did watch it before.

I did like the first movie better then the 2nd..
I would give it..oh...
3 out of 5 stars...

the story line is several people go out on a yacht for a nice little cruise..then they decide to go for a swim, unfortunately all of them jump off the boat..then can't get back on the boat as there is no ladder or way to get back on...I am not gonna tell you the ending but it was predictable.
still not bad though

Despicable me

2011-01-01T14:22:00.000-08:00

The 3rd movie that we seen on Christmas Day was Despicable Me. A cartoon that was supposed to be 3d but saw the 2d version of it. It was very cool. It would've been better seeing it in 3d but I gotta say it was good. A little corny in places but I liked the story line..and the scenes were well done.

I do plan on getting it and hopefully seeing it in 3d at home one day soon. Steve Carell was really good as the voice of Gru, the wanna be villan in the movie.
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

4 out of 5 stars

Unstoppable

2011-01-01T14:19:00.000-08:00

The 2nd movie that we went to was unstoppable at cinema city on mcgillvray in winnipeg. I do love Denzel Washington and wanted to see that movie so we went. I was very happy with the movie. I was often sitting up closer in the seat to watch the action as it was happening. It is a fantastic movie, great drama. The movie is about a unmanned rolling train, at high speed down the tracks while carrying some dangerous goods..that would explode and take out a town if it derailed.
denzel plays a train driver who goes after the running train.
very well done indeed.

I would give it 5 out of 5 stars..
and I can see myself buying the movie when it comes out on dvd.

Yogi Bear in 3d

2011-01-01T14:16:00.000-08:00

well, I spent my Christmas Day by going to 3 movies and spending the day in 2 theaters here in Winnipeg. The first movie that we went to was Yogi Bear in 3d in st vital center - silvercity.

First of all let me say that going into the movie I had the impression that it was going to be really really dumb..but I was pleasantly surprised. I did enjoy the movie immensely.
It was good in 3d.. you saw some things flying out at you...it was really well done.

I would give it 4 out of 5 stars.

just want to say happy new year

2011-01-01T14:14:00.000-08:00

to everyone out there:D perhaps I'll add movie reviews to the blog as well as photos for the downtime that I have in between going places to take photos .

crushes and carnage roller - derby

2010-11-17T18:34:00.000-08:00

I went to the crushes and carnage event at the winnipeg convention center this past weekend (Saturday November 13, 2010) and it was lots of fun. This is the first time that I have gone to a derby event and I will go to another one. I believe the next one is on February 19th, 2011 and I plan on being there.

I posted 180 photos to my website and I hope you like them. I took way more then that but I pared it down to 180. next time I may sit closer to the action and see what I can get.

if you want to see photos check out the website
here is the link

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p286736116

and a photo

news article for the raiders hockey team

2010-11-17T15:29:00.001-08:00

today a news article was posted online and will be printed in the "times" community newspaper this week.
follow this link
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/sports/New-name-new-direction-for-hockey-Raiders-108504249.html

you will see the photo that was chosen.

I started a new page

2010-11-13T12:32:00.001-08:00

in facebook for my photos that I take for the MMJHL Junior Raiders hockey team come and check it out
http://www.facebook.com/pages/M-J-H-L-Raiders/152734681407161

view the moon

2010-09-25T10:06:00.000-07:00

I added a new gallery and 15 images of the moon taken on september 18th, 2010 while in grand marais, I had wanted the sunset but since i was a little late ..I turned around and got the moon.

these photos are all handheld, only postwork done is a little cropping

Lake of the Woods

2010-08-15T18:46:00.000-07:00

I have uploaded 80 photos to a new gallery called "Lake of the Woods" these photos were taken while on a pontoon boat and taking a tour of lake of the woods. The boat usually serves as a taxi to Coney Island Beach.

The photo included here I took while waiting for the boat.

you can find the gallery here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p496472373

added gallery for Kenora 2010

2010-08-10T16:55:00.000-07:00

I have added a gallery and 101 photos to my website under a gallery named Kenora 2010. I will be adding photos to the 2nd gallery soon....

here is the link to the gallery
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p502641227

added more images to my winnipeg zoo page

2010-06-17T14:14:00.000-07:00

and yes..lions are now here :D

link to the gallery
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p947918886

favorite lion photo

added new gallery

2010-06-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

for spruce woods manitoba

you can find the gallery here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p351270209

one of my favorite images from that weekend is:

adding 37 images to my sunset page

2010-05-25T19:57:00.000-07:00

I have added 37 images to my sunset page on my website. some of the photos are from hecla and are also in my hecla gallery. I figure they belong in both galleries. the sunsets from grand marais in grand beach provincial park will only be added to my sunset page.
the photo shown was taken at grand marais manitoba

the link to the gallery is here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p785181498

new photos added to my hecla island page

2010-05-16T18:58:00.000-07:00

I added 128 new photos to my hecla island page as I spent the weekend there.
go check them
I think this one turned out cool

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p780740214

Delta Marsh

2010-04-24T11:19:00.000-07:00

Some photos taken while visiting Delta Marsh and Delta Beach. All of the photos were taken with my olympus e300 dslr and worked on using dynamic photo hdr.

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p269061161

walk of fame - fargo

2010-04-24T11:10:00.000-07:00

I added a page for the "walk of fame" in Fargo, ND. More information about the walk of fame is included on the page along with the photos

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p977432734

Added more photos to my red river zoo page

2010-04-24T11:02:00.000-07:00

I now have 64 images on the website :D
the page is here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p399697665

red river zoo in fargo, nd

2010-04-18T18:56:00.000-07:00

well, we took a trip to the states this past weekend and on saturday drove from east grand forks, to fargo for the day because I wanted to see the zoo. The admission for the zoo is $8.00 and it was only open for 4 hours. New hours I think are starting may 1st. We spent around 2 hours in the zoo looking at all the animals and taking photos. the main attraction at that zoo are the wolves. At 1:30 pm they feed the wolves and while they are putting the food around the wolf display there is a zoo keeper on a microphone telling us all about the wolves and what they feed them and how. Once the food is out..they let the wolves back in the area and they run around looking for the food. I did take a lot of photos of the wolves and of course the other animals. So far I have worked on 47 images but I took over 700 so I will look at more soon. I also have other galleries to work on . I did go to thief river falls and have a few photos to put up ..but not that many as the weather was still pretty cool ....and I didn't get a chance to take many photos.
one of my favorite wolf photos is here:

the link to the site for the red river zoo is here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p399697665

added gallery to manitoba views

2010-02-06T17:19:00.001-08:00

All of the photos uploaded to the Senkiw view gallery were taken october 21, 2006 with a 6 megapixel Olympus camera. I will hopefully stop off there again one day soon.

the gallery is here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p443878155

I added a new gallery under 3d imaging

2010-02-06T17:15:00.000-08:00

called "poser renders"
so far 101 images have been uploaded

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p312433264

while you're there check out the other 2 galleries - daz renders and vue renders as i've added a few images to each gallery

added a cats gallery

2010-02-06T17:12:00.000-08:00

I added a cats gallery under the animals section and so far uploaded 28 photos.

you can find the gallery here:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p352667335

added an ontario folder and gallery

2010-02-06T17:08:00.000-08:00

well, I decided to add some new galleries to the site. I added photos from ontario that I took back in 2006, I initially wasn't going to do that but I figured what the heck its a good backup system for the photos as well..
you can find the gallery here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p78088601

Added more sunrise and sunset photos

2010-01-13T16:27:00.000-08:00

I added 14 more sunrise images to the site and 4 more sunset images to the sunset gallery.

the image shown is one of the sunrise images I have added to the gallery

New Gallery Added

2010-01-12T15:56:00.001-08:00

I added a new gallery called sunrises

All of the photos uploaded so far were taken yesterday morning I will add more from other days in the near future

A new year a new start

2010-01-10T06:43:00.001-08:00

Well its now 2010 and I am going to make a new start. Most of the photos that I've been taking lately have been just hockey. I haven't really gone anywhere lately. Once the weather gets a little better I am sure I will go take photos again. I am using the Olympus E 300 dslr camera now and I like it. Even though its not the same as the one I had I am getting the hang of it.

This blog is now directly linked to my website as I have it part of the menu items.

I have been doing more renders lately with my 3d programs and I plan on putting the renders on the website as well. I have become a vendor on Renderosity.com and have a couple of background packs for sale there as well.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=612848

there's the link to my store.

St Malo Jr warriors

2009-10-20T04:02:00.001-07:00

I also do photos for the st malo jr warriors and I was in st malo this past sunday (oct 18th) and took photos during the game against cross lake.

I was a little disappointed because my camera lens kept fogging up but at least a few of the photos turned out ok.
must find some anti fogging stuff...

the link to the photos is here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p538093706

vendor on renderosity

2009-10-10T06:44:00.000-07:00

I am a vendor on renderosity and I have 2 background packs for sale for you scrapbookers and digital artists..the photos can also be used for desktop backgrounds but please do not claim these photos as your own. I still retain the copyrights to them.

http://market.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=612848

that should get you to my vendor page where you can purchase my backgrounds

photographer for the 7 oaks raiders

2009-10-10T06:29:00.000-07:00

I am now the photographer for the 7 oaks raiders jr league hockey team.

to see the website for the raiders go to
www.freeteams.net/7oaks

and for the photos that I put up. they have a spot on my website here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/f1053222587

finally got new camera

2009-10-10T06:27:00.000-07:00

I now have an olympus e300 dslr
with 4 lenses
14-45 mm - is the digital lens
3 film lenses
75-150mm om lens
50 mm om lens
35 mm om lens

and the adapter to use them.
Only have a 1 gig card so far so I will have to get another one - perhaps a 4 gig one that should do for now.

getting there

2009-09-29T05:09:00.000-07:00

I should be able to get another camera in the very near future and i'm excited!
I wish to thank everyone who helped me get there..it is very much appreciated!

I wish to thank everyone

2009-09-13T15:46:00.001-07:00

Who has donated to me so far....thank you so much ! I do appreciate the help and am amazed at the generosity of people. Again thank you so much to the people who have donated to me and to the others who will.

house broken into

2009-09-04T06:46:00.000-07:00

and my camera(s), my laptop, 19" monitor, router and other items were stolen..i didn't have insurance..so any help would be appreciated. i have created a donate button on the left hand side so if anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated

I created yet another blog

2009-08-31T07:56:00.001-07:00

This one is more for my 3d art..and vampires! yes...in case you couldn't guess it..Anne Rice is one of my favorite authors....
and if you click the following link ..you will find my new blog

http://vampiredreamlovers.blogspot.com/

a slide show of my 3d artworks

2009-08-28T09:39:00.000-07:00

If you wanted to see some of my other works I do 3d artwork as well...and here is a slideshow for you to view. All of these images are on my website as well.

Cooks Creek Manitoba

2009-08-28T08:21:00.001-07:00

Cooks Creek manitoba is a short drive from Manitoba's capital city of Winnipeg.

Even though it is so close, a 46 minute drive - few people realize what is there. This is the immaculate conception church which also has a grotto. Isn't it beautiful?

it is a must see thats for sure. The church does resemble a castle. I am standing on top of the Grotto to get this view. This view is actually from the side...the front of the church has angels on either side..trumpeting to heaven.

the rest of the gallery can be seen here:

lets see if the slideshow works

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p1072573625/slideshow

Souris Manitoba

2009-08-28T08:15:00.000-07:00

We stopped off in Souris manitoba for one night of camping and at least it wasn't raining. It was a beautiful night..and yes I crossed the bridge...twice..the first time not so fun because some kids were behind me swinging it on purpose. the photo shown here is the swinging bridge. I'm standing on another bridge looking at it.

Built in 1904, the Souris bridge is one of the best-known long-span 'catwalk style' swinging bridges in North America. Patrick reports the 582-foot total length spans over nine piers making ten separate spans. The longest clear span is 242 feet. Of course you're just walking over planks..so it gives you a different feeling especially right in the middle.

anyway the rest of the souris gallery is here:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p150268434

some saskatchewan statues

2009-08-28T08:11:00.000-07:00

well along our trip we made some stops at some sk statues or if you want big roadside attractions that some towns put up to increase tourism.

There are 26 images up in that gallery so far:

the one thats shown here is in rocanville saskatchewan.

to see the rest of the images in the gallery click the following link:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p771326129

updating the blog

2009-08-28T08:08:00.001-07:00

boy do I ever need to update this..I tell ya life really does get in the way. I hope to update this blog today.

i've worked on some more duck mountain photos so theres now 85 images for you to see

the image to your left here is teh drive into duck mountain. The new photos are mixed in with the other ones so you'll just have to look through all 85. :-)

saskatchewan sights

2009-08-11T14:08:00.000-07:00

here are some views taken while driving through saskatchewan ....we stopped off at several small towns on the way back to manitoba. I found some amazing views. The above photo was taken along the highway between esterhazy and spyhill...

the rest of the images can be found here:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p481898399

powerview/pine falls

2009-08-11T14:04:00.000-07:00

we made a pitstop in powerview and pine falls on thursday july 23rd... I wanted to see the dam in powerview to take some photos...

I took quite a few from that location and uploaded 12 so far to my website ...

click the following link to see the rest of the photos

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p57177194

Melville Saskatchewan

2009-08-02T05:17:00.000-07:00

Melville is Saskatchewan's smallest city at around 4300 people or so. Located around 30 minutes from Yorkton Saskatchewan. This is the 2nd time that i've been to Melville. The first being in the summer of 2007. We weren't planning on going there but ended up there after it started raining at our campground. It was still raining off and on in Melville as well and I didn't get as many shots as I would've hoped. We spent one night there and left in the morning.

the rest of the photos from this set can be seen here

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p287128898

St Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church

2009-08-02T05:11:00.000-07:00

in Yorkton Saskatchewan is a must see if you're ever there. the address is 155 Catherine Street. Few Yorkton citizens are aware that in their very own city exists one of the finest paintings of its kind in North America. The painting is in the dome of the St Mary's Ukrainian Catholic church. The painting covers the entire dome and has a curvature of over 62 feet and is 55 feet from the ground. Stephen Meush is the artist who painted this between september 1939 and May 1941. The curvature required that the central figures and the 157 angels and cherubs surrounding them, be painted in a distorted manner so that from the floor level they would appear to be on a flat plane. The main colors are the orange, indigo and dull red as seen by Meush in Saskatchewan sunsets. Gallons of the best artists paints were applied together with Meush's own inks which he was continually seeking to improve. The paints penetrate to a depth of one eighth of an inch to avoid injury should flakings of plaster fall away. the painting is further protected by many coats of varnish.
The paining is an original and represents the coronation of the Virgin Mary in heaven. The image stands out brightly and depicts God as "the Ancient of Days" (Daniel 7:9) blessing Mary. Jesus is depicted holding a crown over Mary's head and te Holy Spirti is portrayed in the shape of a flying dove. Surrounding the thrown of God are 157 Angels of different sizes. Below the feet of Mary, there is a sky-blue streamer with a yellow inscription beaing the words, "Hail, Virgin, Full of Grace, Queen of Heaven, Holy, Holy, HolyAlleluia! Below the streamer there is an open book which reads: "Mary Advocate, Protectress and Perpetual Help of Christians."
Around the dome are 8 life size angels. These were done with a spray gun and a patter for each of the six colors.
the rest of the gallery can be seen here:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p366284888

i'm back from holidays

2009-07-31T19:23:00.000-07:00

well, I made it back in one piece..more or less..:P I took a lot of photos and I mean alot...over 1000..probably right near 2000...in the last 8 days. so I'm gonna have fun working on them..I am not sure where to start..but i'm in the process of uploading some photos to a new gallery on my website called duck mountain provincial park. Here is one of the photos. I'm uploading 38 tonight. We spent 2 nights in the childs lake campground and did a couple of trails. Although there was another trail we wanted to take called the wapiti trail but we couldn't find the start of it. We drove around looking for it..but couldn't find a sign. It rained on the 3rd day so we packed up the tent and left, we ended up in Saskatchewan - Melville to be exact for one night. The photo included in this post is in childs lake ...if i remember correctly.

the rest of the photos will be found here:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p814138338

holiday

2009-07-22T16:01:00.000-07:00

well, it is now time for me to actually take a holiday. Woohoo! I'll be heading out to grand marais,grand beach provincial park tomorrow morning and coming back sunday. I'll be sure to get lots of great photos.

Statues and Such

2009-07-21T10:37:00.000-07:00

I created a group of photos called statues and such on the website..and what I will put in there are well..statues from around the winnipeg area - like cemetery statues and other ones you find across the city and just outside of the city. The first 10 that I have up now are all from Holy Family Cemetery just outside of winnipeg.
The one that I have posted here of course is my favorite one if you want to see the rest ...click on the following link:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p1009876368

2009-07-16T17:27:00.000-07:00

this is smokey my grey kitty cat..isn't he cute?

Grand Beach

2009-07-14T08:08:00.000-07:00

I was recently at Grand Beach this past weekend, the photo here is from west beach taken on sunday. I took quite a few photos while visiting both beaches and going on a trail. I was a little disappointed that one of the trails was flooded and that back beach wasn't really walkable anymore. The rest of the photos that I have up so far are here:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p344145006

I also updated the floral gallery as well so check that out

classic cars

2009-07-10T09:17:00.001-07:00

A mosaic made from some of the classic car photos that I took this past wednesday while at the Pony Corral in downtown winnipeg.
the rest of the photos that I put up so far you can find here:
http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p26446046
Check out the Pony Corral here:
http://www.ponycorral.ca/

i'm on photographers direct and have a couple photos up there

2009-07-07T12:33:00.001-07:00

Photographers Direct - stock photography images

gimli manitoba

2009-07-06T19:08:00.001-07:00

On Saturday July 4th we made a little trip to Gimli inbetween peewee baseball games. We had a 5 1/2 hour break between games at a tournament so we first went to winnipeg beach and then landed off in Gimli. These photos are from strolling along the harbour.. the clouds were kinda cool and we just missed the rain. I found a new program to play with called dynamic photo and used it to work on my images.

the rest of the photos are here:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p18179793

fireworks, goldeyes baseball and a stray dog

2009-07-02T15:00:00.001-07:00

well, the last couple of days have been interesting here, a stray dog came to visit me. He was very sweet indeed, but I can't afford to keep a dog...so I called the lost animal line and I think they finally came to pick him up because I didn't see him when I got home. I did get some photos of him of course and posted around 15 on my website. the link to see the rest of the photos is here:http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p882653701

Tuesday Evening we went to see the winnipeg goldeyes play against the schaumberg flyers they won 16-4 it was really a blow out. For the most part a good game although one of our players - the short stop was injured and will probably be out for the remainder of the season. The link to the rest of hte photos is here: http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p851523435

After the game, they had fireworks in which case I had my 40-150 mm lens on the camera and I think I probably should've put the other lens back on..but I kinda like how some of them came out. The link to the fireworks is here: http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p813840902

2nd camping trip 2009

2009-06-27T13:17:00.000-07:00

For our 2nd camping trip of the 2009 season we went to my favorite place to camp - Hecla Island. I find Hecla to be one of the most beautiful spots I have ever camped. I would love to have a house or cabin there one day. I can see myself retiring there. That is my dream. This time we left on a Saturday morning - June 20th and stayed Saturday and Sunday night and came back on the monday. That way we didn't have to rush to get set up and had more time to explore. We arrived in the late morning got our site and set up. Had something to eat then went to the beach. I figured I would run around and take photos more on Sunday and use Saturday to relax. The beach was nice but they need more sand on the beach as sitting on rocks was quite uncomfortable. The water would've been way too cold for me to go in because this year it still snowed in may and that lake did not thaw out until late in may. I will post one of my favorite photos from that day which is one of my saturday evening sunset photos. I didn't get very many photos that night because the mosquitos were just eating us both alive. I believe I got around 10 or so shots and then left and walked back through the bush and went to the marina. I stayed at the marina while my boyfriend went back to get the car. I did get some lovely shots of the marina while the sun was setting. Sunday we did the lighthouse trail and walked along the beach and part of the golf course. It was a beautiful day and we carried with us lots of bug spray. Its too bad that there were so many mosquitos because boy oh boy were there lots of them. I've never came across so many mosquitos in my life. No matter how much bug spray we put on they still kept coming. We saw a few deer, lots of geese and goslings and even a jackrabbit. My boyfriend saw a fox but I missed it because I had the camera focused on a deer and didn't see it run behind me. By the time we made it to sunset beach the sun had already set but I set up the tripod and managed to get some breathtaking photos. Unfortunately it rained overnight and some of our stuff did get wet and we packed up around 9 am to come home. Even with all the mosquitos it was a fantastic time and I can't wait to go back.

to view the rest of the photos from hecla island please follow this link:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p780740214

First Camping Trip 2009

2009-06-27T12:54:00.000-07:00

Well the first trip this year was to the Whiteshell Provincial Park and we stayed at the Nutmik campground. We left home on the friday night (the weekend after the may long weekend) and made it to Nutmik just before 8 pm. We had no fun when we first got there because we made it just before the office closed and first picked a site just from the map.. we drove and took a look at it..didn't like it so we picked another one and drove back..which was fine. Well after setting up the tent we found out that the electrical box at the site didn't work..so we found yet another site and literally carried the tent over to the new site and set up there. It was too late to go back to the office and we knew no one was coming for that site so we figured we'd just drive to the office in the morning.

Even though the weather channel had told us that the low was around +5 I think it must've dipped down to -5 because we froze. Even that portable heater didn't work friday night and we got no sleep. Saturday was a better day. I crawled out of bed early and took some photos. I really liked the light in the above photo and it was one of the first ones taken that morning with my olympus e520. We drove to the office and no one was there so we decided to go for a trail walk and took the pine point rapids trail which is 8.2 kms long. I managed to get some really good photos so it was definately worth the walk. After the walk, we went back to the office switched sites, had something to eat then went for a drive. I wanted sunset photos but it was chilly and I didn't feel like walking over the big hill to get to the beach so I settled for some campfire photos.

to see the whiteshell photos click the following link:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p936611930

We left on sunday and on the way home we stopped off at pinawa dam and walked around the dam. I think I got some excellent photos there too. The link to the pinawa dam photos is here:

http://www.cdunningphotography.ca/p745640736

C Dunning Photography

2009-06-27T11:37:00.001-07:00

I will have this blog coincide with my website. I will try to update this as much as possible and perhaps say whats on my mind as well as link my new galleries to it.

You can see my photos on several sites among them are eyefetch.com, redbubble.com, zazzle.com and of course cdunningphotography.ca.

I will post on here when I go for my camping trips or even just a day trip to take photos and of course post one of my favorite photos from that day(s) and give a link to the photos on my cdunningphotography.ca site so you can see the rest of them.

If you wish to find me on the other sites just send me an email and I will send you the link to my portfolio on the site you wish to see.