GYST: Get Your Stuff Together
The Design Guy blog is a personal project featuring articles on design, creativity, photography, tech, tips, and life. I add to this journal as the mood takes me, whimsically. Enjoy.
On a cold December day, three Lakers ply their way across Lake Ontario, heading for Hamilton. Heavy wind and waves slow them, but they don’t stop. They never stop. Whatever the weather, however wild the Lake may be, they keep going. Their only rest is […]
Read moreA new addition to this site is our YouTube feed which can now be found under the Watch page (itself worth a click) by using the drop down and selecting ‘GYST Another YouTube Feed’. On this new page you can find everything from our channel. […]
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Autumn gold in the leaves complements the ochre and brown of the canyon walls. A silky look to the water was achieved by using a tripod and a slower shutter speed of 1/15th of a second. ISO100 kept away digital noise, and a 42mm focal […]
Read moreOn November 26th at the Guild Hall in Port Colborne, the Optimist Club host their annual Christmas Bazaar. This fundraiser event features craft vendors, a penny sale, a bake sale, and door prizes. Visitors can browse and pick up some gifts and stocking fillers, meet […]
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The Somewhere In Niagara online store has been live for a week or two now. This innovative initiative allows locals to either stop by and pick up prints, or have them delivered – anywhere in Niagara. These print sales put expensive gas back into my […]
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Our Image Of The Week is this closeup of the Buffalo water intake at the mouth of the Niagara river, Fort Erie. The windmills of New York State dance along the shoreline behind, like backing singers at a concert, while a multitude of birds fish […]
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Sunrise is spectacular. Even more so when viewed across the Niagara River at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie. The blue-lit bridge contrasted with the dawn red as the sun poured out of the sky across the fast-moving waves of the cold Niagara River. I […]
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As part of ongoing site development I have made some sweeping changes over the last week or so. Long overdue, this site now has new features and capabilities, one of which is improved photo management. So I wanted to try those new features out, and […]
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