Where did January go ??

Its mid winter here , lots of snow, cold temperatures, and grey/white skies. Its been an interesting week of taking photographs, I've started shooting in RAW , and using the semi manual settings on my camera.  Aperture and shutter speed was my focus this week.   Ill keep this brief, as for the first time. Im adding captions :)) Ill let them tell the rest of this weeks story .

Winter horizon , On a clear day the CN tower is very pronounced, today its just a fuzzy stick in the far background.

Im guessing this bird had flown south :) 

Fence posts and dark cold water are two of my favourite subjects 

Dark water on a cold grey day , this shot was an Ah Ha moment for shutter speed.  

Snowy Calm, A view of the woods, it looks so  peaceful.  

You know the snow is deep when :)) 

Post in a snowy field.  This was my Ah Ha moment for aperture.  Fence posts make great practice shots. 

Little Miss Chicken , Id been taking care of a Farmer Friend's  chickens while he was away!

Roast pork Dinner, my other life as a food blogger :)
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I hope you've enjoyed this weeks pictures.  All comments, critiques,  or suggestions are welcomed.  Happy Shooting , see you In February :)

Happy New Year ! Im back :)

Happy New Year!! 
I'm happy to say my New Year has started off great :)  After the disaster I had on Boxing day :( it didn't look very promising .  I was just about to install a back up hard drive, when my main drive mysteriously FAILED ...  most things were backed up well,  with the exception of the last 4 months.  Some where around 4500 shots were lost.   I managed to dload around 600 from various sites ( not full quality but a picture at least ! ) Then on New Years Eve, when I had given up on it ever working again ... it just started working again!!  The only thing i lost was all the tags i had applied, since i had reinstalled Picassa since :) 
I'm looking forward to my best year of photography ever !  I'm taking about 1000 shots a month now, compared to 100 before I started blogging about food and photos. 
I'll be back to regular posting soon , I have a lot of photos to reorganize now lol :)  Ill  leave you with these shots I just recovered ! 

Have your self a safe and happy year !!  and DON'T forget to back up your important files !!! 
Rich

A cold winters day

So much for global warming, as I type this half the planet is covered in snow :) An exaggeration I know ... but still I can not remember having this much snow in December before. I was watching BBC news last night, and even England and half of Europe are blanketed in the white stuff. I was going to post some warm and fuzzy pictures from summer, but another snow day seems more appropriate.