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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
This is the view across the inlet at Tofino (Clayoquot Sound). It’s Opitsaht, spelled also as Opitsat and Opitsitah, a Tla-o-qui-aht community in the southwest area of Meares Island (I’d love to know the traditional name of Meares Island but I can’t find it at the moment; if you know leave me a comment). ...
Late September and I really should be…shooting fall colours. The severe storms of summer are migrating south – ending a rather busy season (32 tornadoes in Ontario this summer). The autumn palette is being mixed as we speak (fire up the warm tones) and tonight we actually have our first frost warnings of fall. In ...
“I see dead people…they’re everywhere.” That line, from M. Night’s ‘Sixth Sense’, is often how I feel about how I see things visually. But it isn’t the folks who have shuffled off this mortal coil who occupy my vision, its geometric shapes – circles, rectangles, triangles and lines. It wasn’t always there. At first, it ...