Saturday night my photography group went close to Algonquin (where Mario and I scouted) to do a photo shoot and it was so much fun.  There were 10 of us, in my car I took Vanessa, her husband and Hyacinth (we’re all fully vaccinated), it was a long car ride but seeing as how it was a new moon, the skies were very dark. 🙂

The glow in the distance I “think” is the light pollution from Gravenhurst but who knows maybe it’s Toronto lol.  While I enjoy taking photos of the stars, this time around I tried something different to have something interesting in the foreground and it worked wonderfully.  For some of the photos where the people are lighted well, I did some light painting with my pocket flashlight and ya it worked out great.

We stayed till about 1:30am then left, after dropping my carload off at their homes, I got back at 5am (ugh) and slept till 9am on Sunday.  Surprisingly I wasn’t a zombie and today I’m fully recovered. 🙂

Unfortunately while I was there, Mario asked for a hand with his settings so I set my Canon EOS R5 attached to the tripod down on the ground and well I guess the ground wasn’t flat because it took a tumble.

Thankfully the camera landed lens hood first onto the ground and took the brunt of the impact.  Sure it broke but a lens hood is relatively cheap to replace ($100 and another is on the way already), I have a few scuffs on the B+W filter but no actual damage on the lens or camera body.  There are no marks on the R5 at all so yeah I really lucked out here!

Anyway a great night was had by all and I want to do it again already!  Soon, soon…