Winnipeg Scenes

[Don Schaeffer]

Art Gallery on Main Street (in old butcher shop)


Skyscraper




The Red River




Loading Grain Feed Into Tanker

[freedom1500]

Beautiful shots. Perhaps others will recognize your style but I started visiting this forum just recently. Your photos are obviously processed and they have a watercolour feel to them. Even the light quality is similar to a watercolour. Your style has a rawness: grainy, contrasty and very saturated. I like it.
(My least favourite is the skyscraper: too soft.)
Robert

[Don Schaeffer]

Thanks Robert. I will tell you all these photos were shot with a (rather less than perfect teleconverter yielding 680 mm) through a bus window. They are grab shots. The skyscraper shot was grabbed a little too fast I fear.

[freedom1500]

Hey Don, you're giving all your secrets away. I'm jumpin on the next bus and gettin a window seat. I tell you that Grain Feeder shot is very stylized and looks great. The colors are amazing! I'm a graphic designer... maybe that's why I like these so much.
Congrats!
Robert
(I've been to Winnipeg a few times... I never saw those scenes :-)

[Don Schaeffer]

Thanks Robert. Necessity is the mother of invention. I'm glad you like them.