In the early days of Covid, non-essential travel outside of one’s own community was strongly discouraged. I started bringing my camera with me on local walks in our small town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. What could I find that was interesting, perhaps beautiful, in the the familiar, even banal, scenes…
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(Not by Microsoft)… Looking at, looking through, sometimes looking in, sometimes looking out. Windows can reflect the light, mirroring the world on the viewer’s side. Some windows are a reflection of the personality who “dressed” them – from choices of drapes and sheers to personal treasures left on the window…
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I first saw Alfred Stieglitz’s “Equivalents” in the early 1970’s and they have stuck with me ever since. Taken between 1925 and 1934, Stieglitz’s B&W images of clouds were among the first photographs intended to free the subject from literal interpretation. Many thousands of photographers have experimented with cloud pictures…
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In Greek mythology, Psamathe (or Psamanthe in some translations of Ovid) was the goddess of sand beaches. I hope she wouldn’t mind lending her name to title this abstract image. The original shot (mirrored here) was taken at Hawk Beach on Cape Sable Island near the “drowned forest”. In several…
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Rocks in my head is what many people think about my obsession with the forms, textures and details one finds in rocks — whether in a rocky landscape, or in a close up. From the smooth rocks scoured by glaciers, to the fractures and forms created by enormous pressures, to…
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Sometimes the bloom is not the only interesting part of a flower or plant. We wait for the bloom, of course, and appreciate its colour, its scent, its delicacy, and the ephemeral nature of its beauty. And then it is gone, leaving us with the green supporting cast of leaves…
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It’s rare for me to indulge in free rein post processing. Both of these images began life with experiments in photography, however. So, experimental post-processing seemed to be in the spirit of what I had started in the first place. Both images have the same subject origin as well, though…
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On a small, rocky beach at one Nova Scotia’s many small fishing communities, my wife and I came across this scene – hundreds of scallop shells together. They looked like cast-off dinner plates. And, perhaps, that’s what had been happening here – years of locals bringing home some scallops, shucking them right…
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In the late 1920’s master photographer Edward Weston began taking a series of still life images that included shells, fruit, and vegetables. He took his first picture of a pepper in 1927, and a number of other pepper pictures in the following years. In 1930, he placed a pepper at…
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Autumn has always been my favourite Canadian season. The turn of colour in the leaves and the crisp air seem to brighten my spirits in a way that others seasons cannot. Autumn skies and light are beautiful. I even like those foggy days that herald the coming of winter. The…
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I took several photos of Quebec City’s la redoute Dauphine (or, The Dauphine Redoubt, in English), including some wide angle shots that show the building as a whole. Built on a hillside overlooking the St. Charles River, it is an interesting building to be sure. But it was the lower wall that…
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If I had been the landscaper for this building, I’d be very pleased that someone took the time to notice my art. I happened to wander past at just the right time of year, with the trees in bloom. What a dramatic contrast in colour, and a contrast in the…
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An early digital photo, and also an early conversion into digital monochrome. Located on a heritage farm in Ontario, this vintage tractor was textured with rust. In sharp contrast to the roughness of the metal, the seat of the tractor was beautifully sculpted; it looked comfortable, though I declined to…
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Tugboat Tough #1
Sometimes images are stronger in sets. These three images are from the same tugboat, either decommissioned or awaiting repair, in Belfast, Maine. My wife and I were in Belfast to join the Wanderbird for a week-long cruise of the Maine Islands in 2010. I say cruise, but the Wanderbird was not…
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