Going Wide With Panoramas
I used to love my 35mm wide angle lens – to me it seemed much closer to what I actually saw than the 50mm. Sunset at Long Beach on Vancouver Island (1974); scanned from slide. Then I discovered these wonderful … Continue reading Going Wide With Panoramas
Dialogues Between Natural/Unnatural
Every year I participate in the Eastside Culture Crawl, an open studio tour with options for other exhibitions. “This year’s exhibition, Surfacing, will harness the creative force gestated in this pandemic period and chronicle the new directions of recent works. … Continue reading Dialogues Between Natural/Unnatural
Fleurs de Villes: Rosé, a Tour with Rose-Coloured Glasses
Fleurs de Villes is a series of floral displays in various cities around the world. In Downtown Vancouver, June 11-20, 2021, a display called Rosé was set up in support of breast cancer research took place. The signature image for ‘Fleurs de … Continue reading Fleurs de Villes: Rosé, a Tour with Rose-Coloured Glasses
White Flowers in Photo Apps 2
Still playing with photo apps but it appears that some of my favourites are not being supported any longer, and others are expected to stop soon. White water lily in Holland run through the photo app Distressed FX. Ireland with the … Continue reading White Flowers in Photo Apps 2
Wild Flowers, Weeds & other Urban Scruff
Wild flowers in the city. In the city there are empty lots where people have scattered wildflower seeds and they erupt from the earth like this. Most of the empty lots eventually get built on. Sometimes the city takes them over … Continue reading Wild Flowers, Weeds & other Urban Scruff
Tree Reflections in Ponds
Earlier this year in the Pacific Spirit Forest I found two wavery forest reflections in a dark pool. At the time I thought I hadn’t even seen anything quite like it and was fascinated by the quivering movement in the pond. … Continue reading Tree Reflections in Ponds
Different Versions of Watery Reflections
Lately I have been playing around with some watery reflection images. Wavery forest reflection in a dark pool in the Pacific Spirit Park in Vancouver, Canada. For this challenge I decided to apply the Sumi-e brush stroke filter in Photoshop which … Continue reading Different Versions of Watery Reflections
The Colour Orange: Big to Small
The colour orange edged with yellow. As big as the sky. As small as a persimmon.As tiny as this yellowy-orange Stonecrop sedum on a pebble beach in Ireland. It’s so small I had to make the image bigger in order … Continue reading The Colour Orange: Big to Small
Cool Colours: Blue & Green and In Between
Blue & green and in between. I have included two diptychs using the top image of a wavery reflections of a dark tree in a pool in the Pacific Spirit Park. This first is combined with cracked paint on a … Continue reading Cool Colours: Blue & Green and In Between
Dots & Spots
Every so often I get in the mood to play with words, and try and define them in my head. Dots. There’s the word dot, which rhymes with spot, and looks a lot like a spot, only perhaps dots are … Continue reading Dots & Spots
