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Category: Form-Texture-Colour

Windows Explorer

(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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Psamathe

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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Flights of Fancy

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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East Coast Textures

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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SAVOY

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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The Tractor Seat

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

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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