Family Matter "new location new view"

Today June 30 we gave our keys to our Condo new owner, it has been a crazy few months, and we are not over yet, still have to sell the car, we got an offer and a pick up date, but still till it's not gone it's not over.

We are trying to make sense of our new life, living with friends till our departure for Mendoza Argentina. 

I had no time to write or even review the picture I took from my last visit to family in Montreal and Vancouver, but it should be done before the end of July.

Last Thursday coming back from cleaning and packing completely exhausted, I sat on my friend deck to relax when a big storm was forming in front of my eyes, even tired I couldn't resist I had to get my camera and get the shot, I love the view from their condo, the farm land of Okotoks:)

Canon 5D Markiii, Canon 24-105 at 24mm, f13, 1/60sec, ISO 200

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Film Noir Nostalgia Series, Grain Elevators Mossleigh Alberta

Canon 5D Markii, Canon 16-35 at 20mm, f11, 1/100sec, ISO200

Mossleigh is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Vulcan County. It is located on Highway 24, approximately 63 kilometres (39 mi) southeast of Calgary.

A farm family in the Mossleigh area of Southern Alberta is doing all it can to keep their local grain elevators towering over the prairies.

Eric Donovan and his cousin purchased two of the three aging structures when the original owner had no more use for them. Now they're being restored to working condition.

 

2010, 3 elevators were still standing, Canon 5D Markii, Canon 24-105 at 105mm, f7, 1/320sec, ISO200

 The elevators were built in 1930, and were in very bad shape when I visited them in 2010, as you can see on my photographs, 2 are still standing today, I am hoping to go back this spring to see if they were restored, I hope so, the grain elevators are part of our history and should be preserved. The original prairie grain elevators are becoming fewer and further between - especially rows of them.

 

Canon 5D Markii, Canon 24-105 at 32mm, f11, 1/60sec, ISO200

I used "Film Noir" black and white preset for this project to bring back the nostalgia.

Canon 5D Markii, Canon 24-105 at 24mm, f11, 1/30sec, ISO200

Canon 5D Markii, Canon 16-35 at 16mm, f11, 1/30sec, ISO200

Canon 5D Markii, Canon 16-35 at 35mm, f11, 1/60sec, ISO200

Canon 5D Markii, Canon 16-35 at 16mm, f10, 1/100sec, ISO200

Canon 5D Markii, Canon 100-400 at 170mm, f7, 1/60sec, ISO200

 

Canon 5D Markii, Canon fisheye 15mm, f10, 1/250sec, ISO200