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Out geocaching again, and this time our hunt took us to the "Old Mill" in Toronto. The building you see is not the original mill, the ruins of which are in front of, and under this building, which is now a posh inn.

I spied this location on the way out to the cache and I was quite eager to get back here. I'm standing under a bridge with Old Mill Road above me. Those are my footprints in the foreground, as the bridge had an iron gate blocking people from walking under it. I suspect this was the old sluice way for the Mill back in it's heyday. Now it's a garden, but not too many flowers this time of year.

The fresh snow really made me want to get this picture though.

This one took some effort to bring to you:

1) It's an HDR photo, combination of 7 exposures. I should have used 12 exposures to get more rock detail.

2) The levels had to be adjusted in photoshop, as Photomatix really wanted to make the rocks white.

3) I adjusted the colour cast to be a bit cooler than the incadescent setting was rendering

4) The curves were adjusted, and the adjustment layer knocked down to 25% opacity

5) I actually cranked the brightness to zero and put a layer mask to ensure that the dark portions of the rocks were all that were affected, then knocked that adjustment layer down to 25% opacity so it would blend properly.

One of these days I'll run my source images through Noise Ninja before the HDR Combine/Tone Mapping step. As usual, I'm having way too much fun with the camera

Hi everyone! So, a funny thing happened yesterday evening..."P", one of my dates from the past called me up and said that he had been stood up and had two tickets to see a modern dance performance at the Sony Centre here in Toronto. He asked if I wanted to join him. He said it's okay if I come in "drab". I thought about it and said yes. After I got off the phone with him, I thought, "maybe I have enough time to get dressed" for P. So, lickety-split, I got dressed in record time and out the door I went! P was a little surprised when he saw me dressed!

The performance was very cool. It was called "eonnagata" by Robert LePage and it was the story of the Chevalier D'Eon, a French diplomat and spy who lived half of his life as a man, and half as a woman (based on a true story).

I brought my camera with me to the show so that I could take pictures (as you all know I'm a picture whore), only to realize that the battery had run out in my camera! Curses!

I had to settle on taking some pictures when I got home. A wonderful evening nonetheless.