“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 ...
As part of an altered book project I did a few years back, I glued pages together and then cut away the center of them so that I could make them into ‘frames’ for some of my photographs. It was an attempt to illustrate the book ‘Two Years Before the Mast’ by Richard Henry Dana ...
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 ...
July 2020 has been a busy month for storms in Southern Ontario. The province averages 12-13 tornadoes a year and – to date – we have had 23.