Weekly Photo Challenge: (The Set-)Up

The weather here has been pretty crummy this past week.  During that time a robin has been busy building a nest outside my kitchen window.  I’m pretty excited about this development.  I got some great pictures last spring when we were lucky to have four baby robins grow up in a nest in that same spot.  This morning the weather had cleared so I set up my camera, and then went back inside to take some photos using my remote shutter. I couldn’t resist taking this photo of my set-up with my point and shoot when I saw it outside my window this morning:

The robin is off the nest and framed in-between the tripod legs.

With the camera I have set up outside, I got this shot:

ISO 400 50mm 0ev f/7.1 1/50

I’m hoping to have some robin babies appear in the next few weeks.  My camera set-up is my response to this week’s photo challenge, up, at WordPress.

Cheers!

Travel Theme: Up

If you visit Canada’s Museum of Civilization, make sure you have plenty of time to look around but don’t forget to look up.

ISO 100 28mm 0ev f/4 1/50

ISO 400 44mm 0ev f/4 0.6s

ISO 400 90mm 0ev f/5.6 1/10

ISO 1600 75mm 0ev f/5.6 1/60

With all these photos, I had to look up, and that is the theme this week over at Where’s My backpack?

While I did take all these photos on one trip to the museum, it is one of those places that you can visit again and again.  If you are thinking of a trip to Canada’s Capitol Region, this museum is worth a visit.  If you are not familiar with Ottawa, and are making your first trip, don’t let the fact that this museum is in Gatineau throw you off, geographically these areas are very close, just across the river!

Cheers!