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1000 Views in under 24 hours…

I know there are those of us on Flickr who complain about the Magic Donkey, also known as Explore… I mean really, how can a computer algorithm really tell us humans what is interesting?

Thing is, when you get in - and high enough, I might add - it really does work… the photo above I uploaded to Flickr Sunday afternoon around 4:30pm local time… by 1:00pm Monday it had over 1000 views. The highest Explore position was #8… in my opinion it’s not even the best photo from the set I took that day (in fact, this sat in my upload folder because I was hedging for the past couple weeks if I should even upload it), but who’s complaining? Not me! Thanks for all the views, comments and faves - and whatever else it took to reach that high on Explore.

Tags: alberta, church, comments, cultural, explore, faves, flickr, hdr, heritage, rural, ukrainian, views, village

07 Jul 08 | Architecture, Landscapes, hdr | Read on | Comment (1)

flickr Fave of the Day : Riding the Storm by calakmul

I’ve been following calakmul’s stream for awhile, partly because he’s a local photographer, and partly because his photographs of the abandoned and forgotten are very well composed and processed. I think I’ll have to pay him to let me tag along sometime!

Be sure to stop by and check out the rest of his stream!

Tags: abandoned, alberta, calakmul, flickr Fave of the day, grain elevator

28 May 08 | Architecture, Landscapes, flickr Fave of the day | Read on | Comments (0)

Lunchtime walk downtown…

Took a walk downtown today at lunch… here’s some of the shots, I took 159 so I’ll be uploading a few a day so as to prevent overload. Some are HDR, and the rest are pretty much out of the camera with some minor adjustments. Check em out by clicking the links below!

1. Downtown Office Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (HDR), 2. Chancery Hall, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (HDR), 3. Chancery Hall, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (HDR), 4. Canada Place, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (HDR), 5. Inside the hole…, 6. Back door, 7. Wall painting, 8. The Lodge Hotel (Brighton Block), 9. Sign brace, 10. Breakfast, Lunch & Sandwiches… to go!, 11. Jasper House Hotel/Empress Hotel/Hub Hotel (HDR), 12. Parking Meter (HDR), 13. Abandoned Mechanic’s Garage (HDR), 14. Locked and peeling (HDR), 15. Ross Plumbing & Heating Co.

Tags: edmonton, hdr

11 Mar 08 | Architecture, edmonton, hdr | Read on | Comments (0)

holy toledo! - flickr Fave of the Day

Love this shot, the angle, the colors, the subject… that’s why it’s my flickr Fave of the Day for today…

holy toledo!, originally uploaded by artsy_T.

Tags: Architecture, artsy_T, flickr Fave of the day

14 Jan 08 | Architecture, flickr Fave of the day | Read on | Comments (0)

Abandoned… Sepia.

Was playing around with a couple RAW files… converted these two shots to monochrome with a sepia toning, sharpened a bit then opened in Photoshop to give a slight vignetted frame… I’m quite pleased with the result.