Pictures of Canada Day

Though backlighting was pretty awful in alot of cases, there were plenty of lovely photos that turned out from the Canada Day celebrations at Columbia Lake Fields.

I was enjoying myself, so I didn't start shooting until around 6-7 pm, missing the first half. The pictures included are low-res jpeg compressions of the high-def RAW photos. If you believe I snapped you or your business, contact me for your free high-def jpeg.

There were two bands that I noticed playing the opening show. Apparently the first band is going to be playing for the Black Eyed Peas shortly. I believe this was Cana Brava, but if the band depicted would like to contact me with corrections or details, please send an email to adamlunde-at-gmail-dot-com so I can add the update as well as your next scheduled gig.

There were a large number of vendors and business including the impressively-styled CHYM FMtrailer. Looks good, takes me right back to the time when people took boom boxes out in the street and danced on slats of cardboard.

 

The next band I got pictures of was full of soul and song. I believe this was the Rhinos. If the band depicted would like to contact me with corrections or details, please send an email to adamlunde-at-gmail-dot-com so I can add the update as well as your next scheduled gig.

The sun went down and with the opening acts done, Neil Beaumont took the stage with the Waterboys, a local male A Capella group operating out of the University of Waterloo. After a brief introduction, the Waterboys then performed "O Canada!" to roaring applause.

Then there were the fireworks! Still going through all the images now, but I picked one that I especially liked as an example. You can still see the glow of the horizonline, the smoke from the last fireworks, people watching thm and two distinct detonations. Lovely.

[UPDATE 20100704, 10:34] Well, it would seem as if the signifigant differences between my live environment at reislunde.com and the test environment here at home have caused the first code failure. As a result, the pictures are currently direct links to a half-resolution version of the image, rather than tiny 512 pixel versions. All photos on the server are copyrighted, but any pictures of people can be freely used by the individuals in the photos.

So go ahead and grab them before I update my code!

[UPDATE 20100704, 22:17] Despite a large number of tweaks that needed to be made, most of the modifications to my online CV have been made and I am in the process of rebuilding the image index. That means only my ultra-low resolution previews are now available for download again. If you do want to have a full resolution version, please contact me and we'll arrange something.

[UPDATE 20100801, 13:30] I am now using my Skydrive as picture storage for these pictures which means you can get copies of the images at a low 400x600 resolution. You can view these at http://cid-747b4a3d9095bca9.skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?page=play&resid=747B4A3D9095BCA9!518&Bpub=SDX.Photos&Bsrc=GetSharingLink or by simply clicking below. Viewing them does require Microsoft Silverlight