After seeing my photos of rust and decay my friend wanted me to take her on a tour of decrepit Vancouver. Because my walks took me everywhere I have opted instead for a Google satellite map for a self-guided tour … Continue reading Seen Better Days
The big thing about macros for me is that when I get in so close whole new worlds appear. Diptychs of Shaggy Bark & Weathered Posters I have been in the process of combining these macros of natural objects with … Continue reading Using Macros in my Continuing Series of Diptychs
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
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 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
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 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
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
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 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 … Continue reading The Colour Orange: Big to Small
