For years I enjoyed photography with a 35mm SLR camera and worked more or less within the limits of the existing lens and what opportunity a polarizing filter could offer. I really didn’t experiment much with many different kinds of filters, mainly because it was expensive and time-consuming to conduct such experiments. With film, there…
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The promise of a new day
Today looks like a lovely day for accomplishing many things, so I’m off to explore the world, take some pictures, work on some drawings and make Discoveries. I leave you with the sunrise here in Torbay in the hopes that it will inspire you as it did me.
Urban Explorations: Fort Amherst
Katherine and I had a few hours to kill recently, so we grabbed the cameras and drove out to Fort Amherst to see what could be seen. Since it was late afternoon and Fort Amherst faces rather to the north-east, I didn’t expect the light to be all that great. The thing about old army…
Conception Harbour, Take 2
We left Brigus and were cruising merrily along the road in the direction of St. John’s, our next task being to secure sufficient ice cream for the troops. John was driving. I was navigating. Katherine was scoping out likely ice cream destinations. Suddenly I turned to John and said, “Can you turn this car around…
Making Landfall
After our spontaneous detour to Cupids, we headed down into Brigus. The light was awkward for many of the shots, since Brigus is down in a bit of a valley and the western hills were interfering with light penetration. What light did come through was often quite intense. So we decided to meander up to…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 