A gap in the clouds
It is photo blog Thursday. On Friday we bought a new 55 to 250 mm Canon zoom lens with image stabilization. This is…
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Nature news roundup July 30 2013
A new study published in Nature indicates forests use water more efficiently in response to rising carbon dioxide levels. As Bryan Walsh points…
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Head Lake: a photo tribute to brush painting
Early Wednesday morning on the photography course, Rob Stimpson met us at the dock in Haliburton. Our assignment was to interpret Head Lake…
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Sense of place: Joe’s lake
In a recent contest, I asked readers to tell stories about places that had deeply impacted them. The various thoughtful responses will appear…
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Summer food celebration
We are having my daughters and a few friends over for dinner Saturday. Danny and I are marking our 10th anniversary (the actual…
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Gull River: photographing moving water
On the second day of our photography course in Haliburton, Rob Stimpson took us to Gull Lake with the assignment to photograph motion….
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Living in Transition
Guest post by Tracey Arial “I’m also involved in starting a Transition Group in my neighbourhood.” “What’s Transition?” This mini-conversation took place with…
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First image from Photoshop Lightroom
This is my first published image edited in Photoshop Lightroom. I an excited about the results! I went for a walk in…
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Nature news roundup July 12 2013
Monday’s storms broke Toronto’s record for 24-hour record rainfall, leaving cars stranded, basements flooded and thousands of people without power overnight. Downstream, Lake…
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Colour photo essay, part 2
In my new schedule, Thursday is photo blog day. However, I have more essays to post from last week’s photography course, so we…
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