This year I didn’t go anywhere; the furthest I made it took no more than a half hour on transit. As a result, my photos are all from Vancouver, and usually just a few blocks away. January. The discovery of … Continue reading Favourite Photos of 2022
Citrusy pink lemonade collage. More of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pink Lemonade Continue reading Pink Lemonade
A ‘glue abstract’ is created when a sign is removed from a wall and exposes the movement, often unintentionally artistic, of the person who was applying the glue. This glue abstract was created when a metal ‘No Parking’ sign was … Continue reading Hidden Glue Abstracts Exposed!
The one thing you can do with a little point and shoot is adjust the exposure, and I’m doing it constantly. Mostly I use a -2 exposure for situations where it’s too dark to hand-hold the camera without shake. I … Continue reading Playing with Exposure on a Point and Shoot
In April a friend of mine studying photography had an assignment in her first-year course to take a magazine-type portrait of someone at work, using two types of light, available light and strobe-flash. My messy studio and I were her … Continue reading Don’t Wear White
The city gardeners have arranged such a variety of flowers in these two tiny gardens that many of them have become favourites, just because of the company they keep. Pink flowers such as Zinnias and Cosmos in the breast cancer … Continue reading Favourite Flower (Gardens)
Over the last year or so I’ve been working on diptychs – playing with a combination of opposites and similarities. I initially called them Natural, Unnatural, the majority being macros of tree bark (natural) combined with eroded urban objects (unnatural). … Continue reading Using Opposites for Diptychs
Moving into an apartment means I no longer have a garden, but lucky me, the city has planted a shade garden just outside the back door. Shade gardens aren’t as breath-taking as ones basking in the sunshine, but if you … Continue reading Walk 50 Steps or Less and Take a Photo
Submission for exhibit called ‘NEXT’. Like the salmon, we have all spent the last few years struggling to make it upstream. The flashes of colour and rippling water could be likened to a dance of life. The salmon story to … Continue reading Watercolour Paintings of Salmon Swimming Upstream
Nature has a thing for pink and green in the plant world… Dieffenbachia in Puerto Vallarta with pink and green markings. Pink waterlilies in a pond at Puerto Vallarta Botanical Garden, Mexico. Soft green Bromeliad with pink thorns and markings. … Continue reading Pink and Green in the Plant World
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