Welcome to Rob Brunato's Photography Blog

...featuring photos of people, nature and wildlife.

 
Creativity has always been a big part of my life and photography is my favourite outlet.  I like to think I am a musician as well, but my skills are not the likes of Jeff Buckley.  I have been a photographer since 2007 and strive to improve my photos with every snap of the shutter. My first passion in photography is nature & landscape.  I dream to travel the work and capture the amazing visuals our great planet has.  My portraiture is inspired by real life moments and I aim to capture honest expressions in my subjects.  Equally inspiring is my wife Trista, who time and time again has been a big help with my photography. We share a passion in meeting families and couples while capturing some wonderful memories.
 
I am always looking to expand my portfolio, so if you are interested in photos for your family, maternity, engagement, or model portfolio I would love to hear from you!
 
Cheers!
 
 

Rob

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Mexico 2010

Trista and I finally enjoyed our hunnymoon vacation to the Mayan Riviera in Mexico.  We spent the last week in February in Mexico and we had such a great time at our 5 star resort.  I took about 400 pictures during our stay and I had to narrow it down to about 40 that I could post here on the website. 

I've done things a bit different and put together an interactive gallery for you to browse the pictures (see below).  The pictures are from all over, but some notable spots are Playa Del Carmen, Coba Mayan Ruins, a Mayan Villiage close to Coba and the beach on our resort.  I hope you enjoy.  Post a comment if you have a moment and let me know what you think.

 

 

 

Jaelyn

I've done maternity shots, at 3 month old and now 6 months old of Jaelyn.  

Jaelyn - 2 Jaelyn - 3

Jaelyn - 4 Jaelyn - 5

Jaelyn - 6

Jaelyn - 7 Jaelyn - 8

Jaelyn - 9

   

Winterlude 2010

Winterlude 2010

Normally I hibernate in the winter because I hate the cold (I live in Canada of all places...), but this winter Trista proposed a new idea.  To get me out of the house and "celebrate" winter (who would want to anyway), she said we should take a trek up to Ottawa and check out the yearly winter festival called Winterlude.  At first, I confused it with the winter festival in Montreal with the big snow man, Bonhomme de Neige.  Reluctantly, I agreed to go freeze my buns off, but I am happy I did.  I was absolutely awed by the ice sculptures created by artists around the world.  I hope my photography below can do their artwork justice.  

The rest of the weekend we took in some of the sights in Ottawa, had a load of food, drank a lot of Guiness and had a lot of laughs with friends.  We skated on the canal one afternoon and I checked out an awesome record store in Rideu St where I bought some vinyl I had on my to buy list (Jeff Buckley - Grace, Portishead, U2 - Joshua Tree, Supertramp - Crisis What Crisis).  I was especially happy to find the Jeff Buckley album and I'm loving it.


Winterlude 2010 - 1 Winterlude 2010 - 2

Winterlude 2010 - 3

Winterlude 2010 - 4 Winterlude 2010 - 5

   

Ingils Falls, Owen Sound

Rob @ Inglis Falls

I was out with a couple of friends from work the other day to take some photos of the frozen Inglis Falls located just out side of Owen Sound, Ontario.  We arrived just before dusk and it made life easy to get some really great flowing water photos of the fall.  The only downfall was the gloomy clouds overhead.

The picture to the left is of me as I was venturing out onto the side of a cliff as seen in the picture below.  Josh happened to snap the photo just as I took a step and was a bit nervous of falling through the cracks.  The cliff was snow covered and a bit frightening to walk on.  I'm sure my wife would have killed me for doing that if she was there. 

The first picture below took a bit of effort to get.  I had to climb down the icy, snow covered rocks to the west of the falls.  Once I was down the ledge, I was in waste deep snow and had to walk over and under all sorts of branches and rocks.  I set up my tripod on a boulder just on the shore of the creek at the bottom of the falls.  Unfortunately, I was a bit too cold and snow covered to consider putting on my zoom lens.  So my shots were all wide angle from below.

The second photo is shot straight on from the west side of the falls on the ledge.  The last photo is from the bridge at the top of the falls.  I've taken all the photos either at f/22 or f/32 in order to get a long exposure time. My ISO was set around 200 and I was shooting on aperture priority.

Above Photo by: Josh Gordon

 

Inglis Falls

Inglis Falls
 
Inglis Falls - 3
   

Fruit Splash

Splash
 
 Freezing water splashes and fruit... it makes a mess, but looks awesome!
 Here is how I set up the shot.
 
 
I had seen something similar done on flickr and thought I would give it a try because I wanted to play with my new lighting.  What I wasn't expecting was how much of a mess this was going to make.  Even with towels everywhere I managed to soak the floor (good thing I have laminate flooring). To get the shot, I had my camera on a 2 second timer.  I pushed the shutter and stood over the table to the right.  It took a few tries to get the timing right, but once I did you can see the results below!
 
 Fruit Splash 1
 
Fruit Splash 2
 
Fruit Splash 3
 
Fruit Splash 4
 
Fruit Splash 5
   

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