Recently we were contacted by the terrific folks at Topaz Labs with a request to try out their brand new Topaz Labs Detail™ 3 Plugin for Photoshop. Time is critical for us here at The Hollow and thus any chance we get to try out new software and techniques can be very exciting. Any tool [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Trucks’
The Rusty Truck And Topaz Labs Detail 3 Plugin
Posted: 9th April 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, ReviewTags: Antique, Canada, Cowichan, Duncan, HDR, Heritage, Photography, Rust, Texture, Trucks, Vancouver Island, Weathered
24
Haulin’ The Goods
Posted: 17th October 2012 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, The Toad's Tonka ToysTags: Antique, Artifact, Canada, Cowichan, Forest, HDR, Heritage, Museum, Photography, Restoration, Rust, Texture, Trucks, Vancouver Island, Weathered
It’s an almost magical place that can capture the imagination of those who visit. Especially if you’re a Toad who loves antique heavy duty equipment. You could seriously get lost in here for hours on end and come back the very next day and start all over discovering the most amazing things. We’re visiting the [...]
The Toad Loves Trucks
Posted: 12th January 2012 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, The Toad's Tonka ToysTags: Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Heritage, Photography, Rust, Texture, Trucks, Vancouver Island, Weathered
We’ve got a literal parking lot full of trucks to look at today, folks! We really love all things mechanical here at The Hollow, and in particular we love antique things. During the summer of 2011, we had a chance to spend the day with our best friends, the Mudpuppies, at the BC Forest Discovery [...]
Unchain My Heart
Posted: 23rd November 2011 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, The Toad's Tonka ToysTags: Artifact, Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Heritage, Photography, Rust, Texture, Trucks, Vancouver Island
When you love old vehicles as much as I do, antique trucks become a beacon that my lens cannot ignore. Today’s post is part of our running series “The Toad’s Tonka Toys“, featuring images captured at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in the summer of 2011. This was a grand day of adventure Mrs. Toad [...]
Diamonds and Rust
Posted: 26th October 2011 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, The Toad's Tonka ToysTags: Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Heritage, Photography, Rust, Texture, Trucks, Vancouver Island, Weathered
Sometimes in life you find something that at first glance appears to be nothing more than a heap of rusty old metal. If you take the time, however, to really take the artifact in you begin to see little treasures emerge. We’re continuing our latest photoblog series “The Toad’s Tonka Toys” with these new images [...]
Finding History
Posted: 30th September 2011 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, The Toad's Tonka ToysTags: Artifact, BC Forest Discovery Centre, Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Heritage, Photography, Rust, Trains, Trucks
This post marks the beginning of a new photoblog series here at The Hollow, folks, strap yourself in for quite the ride! Mr. and Mrs. Mudpuppy and the Toads here landed at the BC Forest Discovery Centre recently on an adventure outing, and we captured such a huge series of photos that as we were [...]
Haunting Eyes
Posted: 13th September 2011 by ToadHollowPhoto in PhotographyTags: Abandoned, Canada, Cowichan, Forest, HDR, Photography, Rust, Texture, Trucks, Weathered
On one of our recent photo excursions with our best friends, Mr. & Mrs. Mudpuppy, we encountered some pretty unusual things on our way back to town. Today’s photoblog post takes a close and very haunting look at one of these things, an abandoned artifact, deep in the forest of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Apparently [...]
A Twist In Time
Posted: 26th August 2011 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, Toad TrucksTags: Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Heritage, Photography, Trucks, Vancouver Island, West Coast
Welcome back to The Hollow, my friends! Today’s post is a wrap-up to a running series we’ve been doing here called “Toad Trucks“. This series showcases photographs we captured at the recent Antique Truck Show in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Today’s post features a 1931 Ford Model A truck that is [...]
Candy Apple Red
Posted: 18th August 2011 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, Toad TrucksTags: Canada, Chevrolet, Cowichan, HDR, Hot Rod, Photography, Trucks, Vancouver Island, West Coast
Hey everyone, welcome back! Well, originally I had totally planned on rolling out this incredible series of new images we took recently of a piece of local historic architecture and significance, but somehow my day here has started to get away from me. So, rather than roll it out poorly and miss a chance to [...]
Reminders Of Youth
Posted: 10th August 2011 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, Toad TrucksTags: Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Heritage, Photography, Trucks, Vancouver Island, West Coast
Today’s post is one I’ve really been looking forward to making for a few weeks now. We’re back at the Antique Truck Show hosted in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Our running series “Toad Trucks” has featured the photographs and stories of the trucks from this wonderful show. Please do feel free [...]
