Captured Glow

Summer is on the wane, but I’ve made the most of the tail-end, at least with the camera. Most of what you see below has been shot out in the Quebec countryside and various parts of Newfoundland, where nature and the weather have both obliged with rich, carnival hues. I’m experimenting with various techniques, including [...]

ViewBug award

Granted, a humble beginning, but I’m pleased someone, somewhere acknowledged this photo. I’ve used it as my iPad wallpaper for 2 years, and it still looks fresh. Not long after arriving in Canada, we took the canoe up to the unfortunately named Crotch Lake, part of the North Frontenac Parklands, and camped out on small [...]

Inspiration from Utah.

  Apologies for the pause – I’ve been busy with various projects whilst preparing myself for a significant changes in my personal and professional life later this year. It’s all very exciting. When the time comes, you’ll see more evidence of the new direction right here. Eons ago I dabbled in photography. I owned a [...]

Celebrating Freckles

  From ‘Middlesex’ a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002: Part of my interest was scientific, zoological. I’d never seen a creature with so many freckles before. A Big Bang had occurred, originating at the bridge of her nose, and the force of this explosion had sent galaxies of freckles hurtling and [...]

Tim Smith – The Hutterites of Western Canada

Brandon, Manitoba based Tim Smith is a photojournalist with a distinguished career for one so young. He’s bagged an impressive list of national and international awards for his photography. His tear sheets include some big names, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian (UK), The Independent (UK), and The Globe and [...]

Andrey and Lili – Russian Fashion Photographers Series

I’ve decided to herald the works of new breed Russian fashion photographers, beginning with the bewitching visual artistry of Andrey Yakolev and Lili Aleeva. Andrey is the photographer half of the Moscow based team, while Lili is responsible for the inspired art direction. To date, I haven’t been successful at learning more about the dynamic [...]

Jerry Kobalenko – One happy man.

  Last night my wife and I attended a presentation by writer, photographer and Arctic trekker Jerry Kobalenko, titled ‘SEARCHING FOR ARCTIC EDEN’, part of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s Speaker Series. People like Jerry never fail to inspire me, while also stirring up feelings of deep envy. During the talk, he cycled through a [...]

iPhone photo diaries

Smartphone manufacturers attempt to woo us with camera pixel counts, but for the most part, what really matters are the optics, which ultimately suffer when factoring in the constraints of unit size and component costs. Still, pinhole optics and comparatively low pixel counts aren’t always an obstacle when interesting imagery is your goal. In some [...]

City of Shadows II : More hidden histories

Early in 2009, I blogged on a collection of Sydney police photographs, originally taken between 1912 and 1960, the negatives rescued by the Historic House Trust of New South Wales from a flooded warehouse and later reproduced to be displayed in museum exhibitions and coffee table books. From the latter, my copy of ‘City of [...]

Genevieve Thauvette

I digest imagery in abundance on a daily basis, being something of a multimedia junkie. Certain excesses are known to dull the senses and benumb the intellect. The resulting anaesthesia leaves me unmoved by the bulk of what I see, especially in the realm of art.  Last weekend I visited the exhibition of a much vaunted [...]

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