‘Tis Monday…

…and a fine specimen it is to be sure. Child is home sick (cold and fever) and I seem to be acquiring the cold symptoms as well, symptoms that I am studiously denying and will try to blast out of my head with a nice, long run later on. It’s amazing how much more appealing…

Across the harbour

Since the bridge fell into disrepair and was subsequentially blown up (one of the great disappointments of my adulthood is not being there to see it blow), I don’t find myself on the other island all that often. It used to be possible to walk from our house to the lighthouse without setting foot in…

Driving by

On my way home from the pool this morning, I spotted a shed that I keep meaning to stop and investigate. I had left my primary camera behind, but had my point and shoot Sony and decided to scout the spot out and see what opportunities there were. I’ll have to go back with my…

Family

We went over to my parents’ for dinner and I snapped this candid shot of my sister and her son. It’s a little bit unfocussed, as I was shooting erratically-moving subjects at 1/30 of a second, but I think the feeling conveyed overrides any technical aberrations. Having a lens that works in low light with…

Fathomable

It appears, from the accumulation of results that I gleaned from Facebook, Flickr and the comments here, that the verdict on yesterday’s images is split fairly evenly between first and second photos (the one that is overall crisper and the one where the house in the background is sort of blurry). Some folks preferred more…