Spring is here!

Spring is here, check out some of the images I have been capturing on my flickr feed.  Check out my www.sweeneywildlifepics.com websites as well.

Historic Mills

Today I spoke to the Grand River Chapter of the UEL on historic mills in Ontario - more specifically the mills located west of Toronto in the Grand River region, and Western Ontario.

The link to my images on flickr of my Historic Mills project is here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsiUw6LNC

Thank you all for visiting my website.

New Website!

Hi all,

I am excited to announce that I have created a new website which will feature all of my nature and wildlife photography.  At the moment, I have only uploaded content from my wolf photography.  But more content will be going up in the near future.

The link will be www.sweeneywildlifepics.com which as of this moment is not quite live.  So follow the following link at the moment:  http://lxdesign6.wix.com/sweeneyimages


David

2014 Haliburton Forest Ultra 100 Mile Race

On the weekend of September 5th to 7th 2014, I was the official photographer for the Haliburton Forest Ultra 100 Mile race, which also included a 50 mile, 50k, 26k and 12k race.  All of the photo's are available for a price of $7.50 per image - which includes a full res Jpeg, and web size jpeg of each image purchased.

The images can be viewed here: 2014 RACE PHOTO'S

For more information - please contact me via email at lxdesign@rogers.com

Luna Howling

Captured at the Haliburton Forest Wolf Centre, June 2014.

Google NIK and some reworked images from Haliburton Forest

My recent purchase of the Google NIK Suite of photo tools has helped me to take some of my older images, and rework them into fine art pieces.  I have been posting the results recently on Facebook, one of my recent images of Cedar and Puppy was shared many many times, and received over 150 likes in a short few days.  The NIK suite is a collection of powerful tools which help to create powerful images, render nene possibilities, and create different perspectives of old images.  Here is an image captured in 2011 at the Wolf Centre of Haida.  Haida was unfortunately released on New Year's eve of 2011/2012 when the enclosure was compromised criminally, and wolves were allowed to escape.  I will forever remember Haida - he was one of my favourite wolves at the centre.

Excellent night of amateur boxing!

On Friday March 14th, I attended the Atlas Boxing Club show.  Among the boxers competing were Ali Greey (below) and Mandy Bujold.  It was a fun evenng, with some terrific boxing!

Boxing Photography Project

2014 marked the start of a new project.  I started shooting boxing as a theme, both as a personal journey of fitness, as well as other boxers.  I spent some time recently at the Atlas Boxing Club photographing some amazing amateur fighters.

This self portrait abstract is titled "Jab"

Photography In Killarney

I spent this past weekend in Killarney Provincial Park with members of the Beach Photo Club.  Here are a few quick sample photo's.

Beach Photo Club Group Exhibition

I will be participating in a group exhibition with the Beach Photo Club.  Our reception is this coming Sunday!  Hope to see you there!

Haliburton Forest Ultra 100 Mile Race - September 7th 2013

Greetings!  Congratulations to all of the runners who participated this past weekend in the Haliburton Forest Ultra race.  It was a pleasure to be the official photographer for the event.  Here is the link to the photographs:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/100590397@N06/ on flickr.  They are ordered from the most recent (Sunday brunch) to the arrival registration on Friday.  All of the photo's have a number.  If you are interested in purchasing jpeg copies without watermark - please contact me directly at lxdesign@rogers.com and I will be more than happy to assist.  Images are $5 each, which gets you the full resolution jpeg file of which you can print or post to social media as you please.  The watermark will also be removed from the file.  Payment can be in the form of email interact transaction, or by cheque.  Upon receiving payment, I will send the files to you.  Multiple files may need to be sent through a service such as dropbox.  Thank You all.

The Sweet 35

I love my Lensbaby Sweet 35.  I have owned the lensbaby since the very first version.  When they changed up the design with the composer, I had thought about getting one, but I was still quite happy using my version 2.0 copy.  Then recently when I found out about the Sweet 35 optic with built in aperture - I knew that I had to get one.  This image was captured in January of 2013 in the countryside of Ontario, Canada.

Photographing Wolves

For those of you who know me well, you know that I spend a lot of time at Haliburton Forest, and the Wolf Centre.  I invest a lot of time in watching and photographing the wolves, because you really never know what is going to happen.  Wolves being a wild creature of nature can go from sleeping one moment, to playful the next.  The wolves are a joy to watch, and I have learned so much about wolves in the past 9 years of photographing them.  This image was of Manitou who died several years ago now, but he will always be one of my favourite.  I was inspired by a photograph I saw of a wolf close-up on the cover of B&W magazine.  I had to come up with my own version, and Manitou was the perfect subject.  Buy your own fine art print of Manitou now, and proudly display him in your home or office for a special price.  Please contact me for more details.  lxdesign@rogers.com    David Sweeney Photography.

F8 Show @ Essentia until the end of the month!

F8 Group Show opens this Friday!

Announcing the F8 Exhibition at the Dignam Gallery, 23 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto.  Dates and times: Friday's - April 12 and 19 from 5pm to 8:30pm, and Sunday's - April 14 and 21 from 1pm to 4pm.  Please stop by to see this image and many more from my Haliburton Forest Project.

RIP Granite

In memory of Granite, the Alpha female at the Haliburton Forest & Wildlife Reserve Wolf Centre who was recently found wounded on the side of a road not too far away from the centre.  She was brought back, and given emergency care, however her wounds and the stress was too great, and she passed away this past week.  May her soul rest in heaven along with her brothers and sisters and family mates.

Haliburton Forest Project 2012

The end of another shooting season in Haliburton Forest has been reached, but not before some spectacular images were captured.  This view of the marsh on the Black Creek trail delighted us this past Saturday afternoon as the sun came in and out of the clouds.  My Haliburton Forest project has been completed for the 2012 season, but I will be back in the spring to capture more fantastic images, as I explore the vast corners of the forest looking for new scenes and vista's to photograph.

Prints are available of my work!  And I am hoping that in the not so distant future, that there will be an exhibition opportunity for my images of the forest.  If you would like more information, or to see samples - please feel free to drop me a line at lxdesign@rogers.com

4G1G Exhibition: Toronto In Black And White

Who is the 4G1G?  4G1G is a collective of 5 photographers from the Beach Photo Club.  The name itself means 4 girls and 1 guy... that 1 guy would be me, David Sweeney, and the 4 girls consisting of Sarah Boutillier, Maureen Littlewood, Jeniffer Vieira and Magda Sodzawiczny.  The group formed in the spring of 2010 as a critique group, and by the winter of 2012, a suggestion to put on an exhibition as a collective had been tabled.  Thanks to Sarah Boutiller, the venue for our upcoming exhibit was found.  Please drop by on October 11th anytime between noon and 7pm to see our collective work.

Black Creek Pioneer Village Photography Days

Doors Open Toronto 2012

Thank you to all of those of you who visited me at Black Creek Pioneer Village this past weekend.  If you would like to contact me about the images or more information, please feel free to email me at lxdesign@rogers.com

thank you!