A swiftly flowing current

I keep saying that I’d like for life to slow down just a hair, but the reality is that I’m the reason that my life doesn’t have many lulls. As I’ve said before, I am the Queen of Mistaking a Level Playing Field for Room to Add Something Else. I’ve been holding that title for…

Road trip, part 3 (Colinet and down)

After leaving Cataracts, we stopped at the fish ladder in Colinet. The Rocky River is a salmon river, but it’s March and the salmon won’t put on their display until late autumn, so what we got to see was a tremendous river, a cool bridge and a fish ladder without fish. Intriguingly, this wasn’t originally…

Road trip, part 2 (Cataracts)

Cataracts Provincial Park is a lovely little spot for a picnic. It’s nominally accessible in winter, but for the love of your suspension system do not approach it from the dirt road through Markland. Holy ruts and potholes, Batman! We crawled down that road at top speeds approaching a blistering 20k/h and Katherine learned lots…

Filtering

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…