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
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
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
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
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
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
A couple of weeks ago I was walking downtown to the Convention Centre to get my first vaccine. I took a small ferry over to the large Yaletown park and then followed along Homer St, feeling pretty safe as it … Continue reading Real vs Fake
I’ve spent this COVID winter going around the neighbourhood taking macros of tree bark and urban debris. In March I started combining them into diptychs, trying to find a commonality between the details of the two very different items. Abstract … Continue reading Natural/Unnatural : Focussing on Details
