Yes... we did it again everyone...what is it that we did exactly you are all asking yourselves?? Well, we waited just a wee bit too long in between blog entries and this is the place where normally you would be reading about how it is strictly due to the fact that life has gotten beyond busy yada yada but there really is no excuse 
Okay, onward and upward as they say...no more crying in the beer. This posting is going to be relatively short as it is already getting on in the evening and it would be a real shame that after patiently waiting to read a blog for so long it suddenly became incoherent due to the blogger's lack of sleep 
What in the world has been keeping us so busy as of late...well, in a really condensed nutshell (kind of the size of a hazelnut roughly) in the past month we have held a Nighscapes Fieldtrip and review, finished up our photo workshops for Sask Tourism, started a very large project shooting a bunch of golf courses in northern Sask. On top of that Rob has been shooting all over the province for the Sask Soccer Association and I have been spending my usual 40+ hours a week at Don's...yep, that's just one month. My calendar just got synced on my iMac and only now the realization occured that it is pretty much full into the beginning of October...yipee...
Without further adieu onto some photos:
A flower that I shot while up north at Rolling Pine Golf Course.
A few of the shots that Rob has taken for the Sask Soccer Association.
For this shot Rob dug a hole beside the tee box and popped up just as the golfer was in his follow through... very sneaky Mr. Weitzel... you remind me of the movie Caddyshack. I can just see you now with the piece of turf covering your head (at least you won't get sunburned that way). Yep... I'm going to pay for that 
One evening there was a massive storm just outside of town so I packed up my car and headed out. The shot above was taken along the way and the shots below were taken a wee bit later.
A few tips for shooting lightning for those of you who are wanting to attempt it. You absolutely need a tripod...a cable release is almost a need but let's say for now it would be a very strong want. It is a heck of a lot easier to shoot in bulb mode but that doesn't mean that you will want an exposure that is several minutes long. Usually the best results seem to come at around the 10-20 second range shooting at a fairly low ISO such as 100 or 200. You will need to set your lens to manually focus as there is pretty much absolutely no way in Hell H double hockey stick that you will be able to focus in auto The tip that will be the last one so that it stays the most fresh in your minds is to stay ahead of the rain and don't be a idiot hero by shooting in the middle of nowhere with your tripod all set up when the lighning is right on top of you unless you are trying for that elusive shot of smoke billowing out of your own head which I wouldn't highly recommend due to the fact that it probably wouldn't turn out anyway due to the fact that you are in the dark at ISO 100 or 200 and your lens is set to manual focus. By the time you managed to get your camera reset your fingers would most likely be too singed to be able to press the shutter to get the shot anyway 
Sorry guys, not too sure where that ramble came from... onto some more pictures:
I wonder if this cute little gal that Rob shot knows that her leg is on backwards??
A shot of the clubhouse Rob took while up at Candle Lake.
I title this one "Soccer Team At Sunset" . Actually I'm pretty sure that Rob didn't exactly title this soccer team picture that he took 
For the picture above I stacked a circular polarizing filter over a ND4 so that I could get a 5 second exposure at midday to make the water have a bit of a dreamy effect.
This last photo was shot off of my parets deck out at Fishing Lake a couple of days after Canada Day. Our neighbor does a big fireworks show every year and unfortunately this year I missed the shot of the Fireworks shooting out of his a@* due to the fact that I was laughing so hard they are all out of focus. You're thinking that this is a joke... wrong... he had a pie plate wrapped around his waist and they were attached to his waist so when he bent over...well, you get the idea
That's it for now everyone. Sorry for the lack of information underneath all of the photos but I promise that I will overload you on the next blog!
Keep shooting and enjoying the summer!
Devona & Rob
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