Edmonton - December 12, 2009 - Montana Wolff Von Selzam holds a candle as other members hold up letters that spell HOPE as Community members, NDP MLA Rachel Notley, Council of Canadians, E-SAGE, Greenpeace on Campus, and the Sierra Club hold a candlelight vigil demonstrating Albertans' concern about people dying from climate change. PHOTO BY JIMMY JEONG for the Edmonton Journal.

-48 degrees (with windshield) weather didn’t stop Edmontonians from joining in on a co-ordinated 130-country vigil in hopes of some real action from the Copenhagen talks. I was quite surprised that so many people actually came out for this event. Didn’t they know that the Canadian Curling Trials were underway? Didn’t they know that my poor fingers were turning purple as I tried to squeeze every bit of available light on my Nikon D700 pushing the pixels beyond ISO 2500.

Or maybe they just knew that our newspapers are suckers when it comes to candle light vigils. There’s so much symbolism with that lighting of the flame. A shared hope.

The Technical Stuff: Shot with my trusty Nikon D700 at ISO 2500 (shot a couple at 3200 and it was still pretty clean) and a 50mm lens at an aperture of 1.4. I wish that Nikon would come out with that 35mm 1.4 already. I love the bokeh (the quality of the out of focus parts of the image) with a 1.4 aperture, but the 50mm focal length is just too tight for my style of bringing the viewer into the setting type of look.