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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The Theresa E. Connor, here still wearing her winter protective shroud, is Canada’s oldest remaining saltbank schooner. Built in 1938 in Lunenburg, the Connor fished the Grand Banks as a dory and trawl-line schooner for 25 years. She retired home in the spring of 1963 after her captain was no…
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The above image was taken at the small dock up the LaHave river here in Bridgewater, where I live. The local photo club (of which I am a member) had a field trip to discover what could be found without traveling far from home. The excursion was well attended, and…
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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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Summerville Beach and Provincial Park is one of a number of sandy beaches located on the south shore of Nova Scotia. On this day in late autumn, in the driving wind and rain, my wife and I were the only ones there. While the beach and waves are the attraction…
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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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Lunenburg – home to the Bluenose II, the Theresa E. Conner and Picton Castle, is a natural stop on the Tall Ships tour. In 2012, festivities also included some fantastic performance art by one ship’s crew member. Later that same year, we watched as the crew of the Picton Castle…
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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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The south shore of Nova Scotia is predominantly rocky. In sheltered coves, one finds fishing communities and wharves. And, here and there, beautiful, sandy beaches appear. The weather here takes its toll upon the landscape – the salt air and drying sun, and the high winds and waves during storms. You…
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Even though we didn’t have a lot of snow this winter, we did see four nor’easter storms. Fortunately, Nova Scotia wasn’t hit as hard as the eastern seaboard of the US. Nevertheless, a nor’easter often brings fierce winds, downing trees and power lines, and the ocean storm surge can be…
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OK, it’s a shameless pun on the movie The Remains of the Day starring Anthony Hopkins. And a nod to Christopher Guest’s comedy Waiting for Guffman, in which Guest’s character, Corky St. Clair, talks about how the “Remains of the Day lunchbox” makes kids’ lunches a happier experience. But I…
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