Dumb, dumb, dumb

There are so many things about photography that you can’t control. You can’t control the weather. You can’t control the actions of wild animals. You can’t control when a sudden beam of light might penetrate the clouds and hit the water (although you might just be able to predict it with some alacrity). But you…

Molten

There was a weird sort of visual effect when the sun came up this morning and it’s not just some trick of the camera. In the above picture you can see striations of the atmosphere. Below, you can see a sort of halo of orange around the sun (easier to see this in the smaller…

A dusting

Driving through Quidi Vidi Village this morning I stopped to have a look at a premises under development which will house a series of new craft studios (more on this later). While there, I wandered out on to the dock of the craft premises and snapped this quick shot of a local, independent brewing company,…

Commiserating

I wandered around some of the historical sections of St. John’s (Newfoundland, Canada, for those who don’t know where I am) yesterday between meetings and remembered to take my camera with me. I’m going to start taking these little strolls a bit more often, I think, now that the weather is shifting a little away…

Chilly disposition

Monday dawned with a sweeping shower of freezing rain that coated trees, roads, cars and buildings, making the driving a little interesting and the city quite pretty. I had meetings for the morning and an errand to run at lunchtime, but I managed to nab a few minutes to snap this picture up near The…