A great surprise! I was offered a nice little gig with another inner city school to help orchestrate a photoshoot for a special school project.
Sounds like a Long weekend – not
being back in the city after a week or so away I can’t say that my spirits were boosted to be home. it’s still cold here!! And there are no leaves on the trees yet. Compare that to last year when the leaves were out in March!! And one of the most soothing sounds in the world is the trembling of poplar leaves in the evening breeze.Continue Reading
Collections
My mom was a collector. She had collections of so may oddities from the sublime to the ridiculous.
50 years and the art of the dinner party
A huge collection of table settings, table cloths, placemats, everything you’d need for a fab dinner party.Continue Reading
Lets get connecting again…
So I think blogging from my ipad is actually going to be better than I thought. Here in the Okanagan it’s not a vacation this time so I feel a strong need to balance the difficult tasks in front of me with getting out to nature and trying to connect with that energy again. With my camera of course. Sharing these connection “products” is cathartic!
Busting out
Well, first, happy Monday! It looks like spring has finally made its arrival here and in less than 48 hours the trees have gone from asleep to leaf out! Remarkable -at the end of April! Last year I took photos of the leaves budding at the end of February.Continue Reading
Nothing is ever black and white…
…and there are far more than 50 shades of grey. With all the insanity that transpired in the US this week I was seriously NOT inspired. But I was keenly interested in the use of photos and the invitation of the authorities to send all and any images to them to aid in the investigation and identification of possible suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Continue Reading
Reading the Light
With the image salon out of the way, and spring’s delay tactics, there is a small window of opportunity for art photographers to do some awesome minimalist photography while there is still snow, relatively warm temps and amazing light that arrives at a fairly decent time. More abandoned buildings are on the list for the weekend.Continue Reading