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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The ups and downs of temperature that I wrote about in the last post continue. One day I’ll be slogging through inches of snow, and a few days later it may have all melted away. Then it will become bitterly cold again. When it snaps cold quickly, there are always…
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I no longer live in a city, and I don’t really miss it. When I did live in one, I was more drawn (from a photographic perspective) to architectural and textural details than to anything else. If I could have chosen a different career path from what I did, I…
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Autumn is certainly my favourite season. Cool, crisp air and autumn leaves. In most of Canada, the colour change can be dramatic. Right outside my window is a tree that that turns such a rich, brilliant red-orange that it looks unreal. And the light reflected from it casts an orangey glow…
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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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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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Arcs, curves, curls, crescents – whether man-made or found in nature, there’s something about them that is very appealing, and more natural. We’re surrounded by them from birth. Even the most angular of human bodies is still a mass of curves, and for some tastes, the curvier the better. We…
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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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