Walking the Glen Tay Block
This time last year, visiting Perth for Thanksgiving, I set out for a walk, the route of which I could easily picture in my mind but the distance (see map)…not…
Photography
A most memorable trip to London long, long ago
I have been scanning some photos stored in shoe-boxes and managed to touch up several from a class trip to London which took place during March Break in 1976. (How…
Biting off more than you can chew
This is what happens when your eyes are larger than your stomach Now what? No related posts.
The Winchester – from draft beer to coffee since before Confederation
I did a short double-take walking up Parliament Street today, approaching the former Winchester Hotel. At the sreet-level entrance to what are now apartments upstairs – to the south of…
Althea Thauberger’s photo mural speaks of Vancouver’s darkness
Thauberger in Afghanistan (Photo: Sharon MacKay) It would be nearly impossible to accuse Vancouver artist Althea Thauberger of being weak or fearful; in fact she is quite the opposite. Not…
Haunted animals – New doc project explores animal suffering
Liz Marshall, the director of Water on the Table, is working with photographer Jo-Anne McArthur on a new cross-platform documentary about the price animals pay as subjugated, commodified and oppressed…
Worth the risk
Pathetic phallacy, a photo by Miss Aniela on Flickr. Love the quote on the photo’s page (link above): Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. –Timothy Leary…
3D Hitler photo album launched in Germany
"The Face of the Dictatorship: the Third Reich in 3D" contains roughly 100 images of the dictator shot in 3D, originally used as Nazi propaganda beginning in 1936.
Montreal Zero One
While in Montreal on our honeymoon, we stayed in an independent hotel. As with some parts of Montreal, the neighbourhood wasn’t high class, but the staff and accommodations certainly were.…
Underworlds Takes Views of the Chemical Coast – New photography by Isabelle Hayeur
Montreal photographer Isabelle Hayeur first trained her camera on waterfronts in 2008 to create “Underworlds”, now open at Division Gallery in Montreal. Long observing the transformations of her own local…
Negatives doing better than slides
So I went through a bunch more slides and started into the negatives in a bid to empty some basement shelves. They're really only there for ballast and this summer's…
Final tributes to Jack Layton in pictures
Click for pictures from Jack Layton’s final journey today from Toronto City Hall, and then Roy Thomson Hall. It was an emotion-packed, life-affirming day.
The deserted but beautiful homes of Detroit – A look at Kevin Bauman’s "100 Abandoned Houses" collection
Detroit has been the poster child of the American recession for number of years. While many Detroit organizations and residents are taking a “do-it-yourself” approach to rebuilding their city, their…
The Town of Perth, Ontario’s appreciation of her past
My heart goes out to the people of Goderich who learned this week how quickly our architectural heritage can be severely damaged or wiped out completely. Having recently returned from…
What I Found in my Garden
A turtle. I remember as a child reading about turtles (or tortoises) in England, where all proper gardens seemed to have one — and being rather charmed by the idea.…
Life before photoshop
Special effects. Wow. I have to laugh at some of the things that were done in the name of 'enhancing' photographs in the pre-Photoshop era. Sandwiching two slides together. Taking…
Toronto and Ottawa
From Church St. looking northish. View from our hotel room. We paid a little extra over the Hotwire price to get this room, but it was worth it. Security blanket…
Raven
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Symphony of Fire
It used to be called the symphony of fire, now it is called the celebration of light which sounds like Christmas to me. Thankfully it is still a bunch of…
Northern Lights August 5 and 6th
Nicole, Alvil, April, and I went a few minutes out of Regina on Dewdney Ave. last night, and got many photographs of the aurora from the massive solar storm that…