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Kingston Ontario City

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:39:00 GMT

2008 Calgary Summer Snapshots

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:27:00 GMT

Favourites

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:40:00 GMT

Kingston Ontario Campus

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:39:00 GMT

2007 Canada Day in Kingston

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:25:00 GMT

2007 Denver Colorado

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:23:00 GMT

2008 Canadian International Autoshow

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:29:00 GMT

2008 Kingston Feb Fest

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:39:00 GMT

The 4th annual Kingston Feb Fest featured a wide variety of activities hosted for free to the public. As always the crowd enjoyed plenty of outdoor hockey action. Rounding out the festivities were music, ice sculpting, and tasty treats provided by Market Square street vendors. Although I missed the concert, I made sure to catch a little of both hockey events.

Last year I decided to use a fish-eye zoom lens and the pancake 40mm. I felt that I was missing a telephoto focal length that could have provided closer cropped shots. This year I equipped myself with a Pentax SMC-M 135mm f/3.5 lens. Manual focus was an interesting challenge but I quickly adjusted -- it's not so different from the stubbornly deliberate AF of the old Pentax DSLRs.

It turns out that on a 1.5 crop DSLR, 135mm is much too long for this type of sports venue. I could have really used a DA70 in this situation! However, rendering characteristics typical of those old film lenses resulted in a nice classic look.

Apart from the cold, it ended up a pretty fun weekend. Snowy weather lent a surreal atmosphere to the Limestone Classic tournament. I'm looking forward to next year.

2007 Calgary Christmas Snapshots

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:43:00 GMT

2007 Nova Scotia Snapshots

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:24:00 GMT

2007 Kingston FebFest

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:00:00 GMT

2007 Haiti Benefit Concert

eyrak.paen@gmail.com (Eyrak Paen) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:56:00 GMT

Mass of Distraction and Living Planet @ Clark Hall Pub