I am a working photographer, videographer, and drone pilot. I’ve been serving the Niagara region for 2 decades.
This is the blog section. It’s not about work, you can read that on the other pages and see some portfolios if you want to. This page is about the fun things in my life. Photography. Nature. Technology. And whatever else I feel like writing about. It’s about life, the universe, and everything. From Carl, your friendly neighbourhood Camera Guy.
Flying a drone over Niagara Falls and other questions
Can you legally fly a drone over Niagara Falls? The answer is a solid “Sometimes”. There are regulations and rules. There is also a general confusion surrounding what you can do with, and about, drones. And some of that is in those flying the drones, which is scary. This video should iron out some common…
Printing Press
For all the advancements and benefits of the modern digital workflow, there still is nothing that can beat the simplicity, complexity, satisfaction, and all-round beauty of an old-school printing press. There just isn’t. It has style. It has a unique feeling. It has an edginess. A visceral connection to the past that cannot be experienced…
Star Wars Week: May the fourth, fifth and sixth be with you
I had a few minutes to spare during a coffee break earlier this week, so gyst4fun (ahem) to celebrate Star Wars week I took my corporate head shot and turned it into a humorous May the Fourth image of myself with Princess Leia style hair. As one of my friends said, ‘You have great buns, man’.…
Duende
In 2019, Nikki and I used to jump over the Peace Bridge bridge and visit Silo City, in Buffalo, New York. This old industrial area is being revitalized, and for all I know may now be condos. But when we visited it was home to a fascinating mix of old and new. Abandoned silos. Towering…
AI For The Win?
I’m on the fence about A.I. It can solve a whole host of problems. It can introduce a whole host of problems. It can arguably ‘create’ whole new worlds. Or not. A.I. is still in its infancy. Nobody can predict with certainty the destination for this rollercoaster. It will surely be disruptive for many industries.…
Cloud Services
Apparently there is a local Internet outage here. Executing Plan B. Web sites updated. Images delivered. Emails answered. Business as usual. This happenstance makes me revisit the plan for self-hosting cloud services. Such a thing would let me and others access files, and sync folders, automatically across multiple devices – even during Internet outages. Save…
Charity Begins At Home
As a photographer I have the freedom and privilege to capture images that I find interesting. Images that inspire me. And, on occasion, images that others like. We recently attended a charity event in Liuna Station hosted by The Bursary Of Hope, an organization created and dedicated to raising awareness, funds, and practical solutions for…
Inspiration
At the Terry Fox memorial just off Highway 17 east of Thunder Bay is a map. The map is a sea of thumb tacks. Visitors arriving not just from Canada and the US but from around the world are encouraged to place pins showing where they came from. That map tells a tale. Stories of…
Solar Power
I will be honest. I struggled with the title for this one. I chose ‘Solar Power’ as a nice quip. A pun. A mot juste, perhaps. Since the sun is ultimately the source of all power on this rock of ours. But when I see this I think not only of another beautiful sunrise in…
