With all the rain on Canada day, I never even left the house to try using my widest angle lens for week 3.

As it was I waited until after 9:30 pm to go out on the 2nd. The light was so nice I thought I’d go see if I could get a nice sunset shot or 2. I decided to take the scenic route (You may have noticed that I like scenic routes.) to Bower Ponds by taking the South Bank Trail to get there.

The destruction of the old water treatment plant was progressing and I wanted to get a shot over the construction fence but it was too tall for that so I had to improvise the shot I had envisioned in my head.

As I thought I’d try some shallow depth of field to see how I like it.

Then I tried for a shot of more depth of field with the foreground in focus.

Lastly, I went for the background to be the sharpest point of focus.

As I continued along my way, I saw a shot that I think would of worked better with last week’s lens choice.

The sun was going down and the colour was starting to show in the sky.

So I hustled across Taylor Bridge and looked for photo opportunities.

The wind was calm and so was the pond. My only real disappointment was that the lights along the bike path were already on when I got there.

The reflected cloud really caught my eye. Again, a narrower field of view probably would have been better, but use what you brought.

I didn’t take any more photos till Saturday, July 6th and Sunday, July 7th at the Ellis Bird Farm. I posted these photos in an earlier post but they belong here as well so…

A very short photo week. As much as I liked the results I found the 18 mm was actually too wide some times. (I never, ever thought I would think something was too wide.)