Finding beauty at home. In January we made it out to Steveston, a short drive away. I liked the mood of winter light on this fishing boat. In February I peeked in a metal shop on Granville Island and saw … Continue reading It’s All About the Light: Favourite Shots 2021
I used to tell people, “I paint rocks”, but when everyone took that to mean that I was painting on rocks, I changed it to “I’m painting portraits of pebbles”, quite a different thing! I have always been a pebble … Continue reading Painting Portraits of Pebbles
An oddball selection of outside art pieces I’ve noticed in the last two months on my photo walks in Vancouver… In a small Coal Harbour park someone added fresh flowers to this bronze statue of an old woman sitting on … Continue reading August & September 2021: Public Art in Vancouver
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
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 … 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
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
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