Editorial away!!!!

I've been photographing a lot of editorial content lately.  It's been accepted on Shutterstock and I'm waiting for Bigstockphoto to go thru the shots I've taken and curate which shots they want to keep and which shots to not keep.  Since Bigstockphoto is owned by Shutterstock I don't see a problem with acceptance.  I uploaded several shots to istockphoto but they were all rejected for some reason or another.  So no more editorial content for iStockphoto anymore.  Their loss, not mine.

I went up to the Hill today and noticed these peaceful protestors.  I've seen them there in years past.  They're not like your typical sjw.  Quite peaceful actually.  I uploaded the above photo to 500px and apparently it's Up and Coming along with another photo.  I personally like the composition of this photo.

The next two days are supposed to be clear and sunny here in Ottawa so I will have to get out at lunch and after work.  Unfortunately I have an appointment for an oil change on Thursday so I don't know if I will get out.  More than likely I will go out after the oil change since it shouldn't take long.

The Canon EOS 7D

Got this shot of a Great Grey Owl a few years ago with my trusty Canon EOS 7D and the Sigma f2.8 70-200MM.  Honestly,  I think the Canon EOS 7D is a great wildlife, sports photography camera.  On a trip to Prague, Czech Republic in June of 2013 it was the only camera that survived of the two.  My Canon EOS 6D body did not make the flight from Ottawa to Prague.  Somewhere between Ottawa and Prague, the pentaprism dislodged from it's housing and was completely useless.  So back to shooting on a cropped sensor.

Anyways, we're gonna talk about the Canon EOS 7D.  Great, great action camera.  With the version 2 of the firmware it just kicked into an awesome action camera because of the number of shots you could get within a second.  The above shot was taken with the Canon EOS 7D and the Sigma f2.8 70-200MM non OS lens.  From what I remember it was a warm day that day.  Now a March day in Canada is not warm for anyone south of the Canadian border.  I think it was maybe around -5 degrees celsius with no wind, no clouds.  Just your typical Canadian spring day.

This was one of the better days of photographing the owls.   No winter snow storm.  It's actually pretty cool to photograph these owls in a cold snow storm with the snow falling down.  It adds some drama to the shot.

In this case I got the Owl coming in to get a meal on a little mouse.  I t think after it got the mouse and went back to eat it, we left as we knew that, that was it as far as it flying as it disappeared into the woods.  I to this day still remember this being one of my happy days.  Photography always makes me happy.