I’d like to wield some of that here. Take out the proverbial pen – now the keyboard, because I hear handwriting is going the way of the Dodo – and brandish it. And, unlike the Dodo, I wanna fly. I wanna fly my autonomous freak flag. Words and, where words fail, pictures. A picture is ...
There’s always a bit of nervous excitement surrounding storm season for Southern Ontario. While we want to see some picturesque storms, we also hope that they don’t do much damage. It’s a bit of wishful thinking because severe storms are often accompanied by strong wind, heavy rain, and hail; the very things that give ...
I spend an inordinate amount of time looking up; day or night, in any season. In line with that ‘looking’ is the checking of forecasts and models. The amount of time spent doing those things increases in the summer months but it does occur year round. Watching the skies in the winter months is usually ...
It’s been a busy few weeks. We had an eclipse on April 8th (a full eclipse for these parts) and everyone hustled to get their shots. There are some amazing images from that day. As fate, and an untimely kidney stone, would have it, I couldn’t attend the event the way I had planned. So ...
“Making photographs, which we often call “taking”, is an intentional act of putting together too many decisions to name, each of them changing the experience of the photograph itself. The best of them, the ones with which we resonate, are made.” David duChemin said that in his book ‘Start ...
“Our experience is governed by pictures.” Douglas Crimp said that. It’s something I came to realize when I eventually got into photography and one of the reasons I find photography such a compelling medium. When I was young, our library had these hard-bound books that contained historical issues of ...
Another hack at selecting text to weave narrative. Same book as before (chapter-xxii) but from a different chapter. I actually had to google what or who Erebus was. It was obvious that the word had associations to darkness from its usage but I didn’t know what it actually was. When you read the actual text ...
Take a photo to mark the occasion.
The posts are pretty obvious. The ‘pillars’ are the two people in the distance. We, the pillars and I, have been walking around the neighbourhood on a fairly regular basis of late. They generally leave me to my photographic endeavours when we are out. I’ll stop in places to take a shot and they will ...