Design Guy

The Design Guy blog features articles on design, creativity, commercial photography, tech, tips, and life. I add to this journal as the mood takes me.

I am also an avid landscape photographer based in Niagara, Canada. This site is the home of my personal photography project, Somewhere In Niagara, in which I travel the back roads and trails to discover the hidden beauty of the Niagara Peninsula. Enjoy.


Port Colborne duck race 2024
Design

Duck Race

Every year in Port Colborne the City runs ‘Canal Days’. It’s a 3-day festival of food, fun, fairground rides, music […]

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Airplane cockpit covered in early morning mist
Life, Photography

Above The Clouds

Every so often I get gifted the chance to see Niagara from a different perspective. Higher even that the drone

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Robin Hood Mill in Port Colborne before tracks were removed
Design Guy

Robin Hood Tracks

I frequently wade through my photo archive, reorganizing and revisiting photo memories. This photo of the Robin Hood Mill in

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daffodils between two trees
Life, Photography

Between Two Trees

I love using the landscape to frame subjects. Things ‘between two trees’ have a natural frame which pleases me. This

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A new day
Design Guy, Life, Photography

A New Day

The darkest of days will end. A new day will begin. Look forward, not back. Remember, grieve, rage against the

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Life

Holly

Our cat of eighteen years, Holly-boo, is suffering. Each day, she slips further from us. Her hips have gone. When

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Sunrise somewhere in Niagara
Photography

Sun

No matter where I find myself, sunrise always brightens my mood as well as my day. That moment when light

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Beidge 21 in Port Colborne at sunrise
Design Guy, Life

A Video From A Bridge

The weather was horrible all week during my staycation. But one morning, bright and early, I looked out to see

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Carl Green skydiving at Skydive Burnaby, Wainfleet, Ontario.
Life

Seize The Day

“I’ll do it tomorrow”. No. You won’t. You know you won’t. If you’re going to do it, do it now.

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Beidge 21 in Port Colborne at sunrise
Photography

A view from a bridge

This view from a bridge was taken soon after sunrise with my drone, high above Clarence Street in Port Colborne.

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Two eagles in a tree
Life, Photography

Wild Eagles

On one of my meandering excursions around Niagara I happened across two eagles sitting peacefully in a tree. I pulled

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Months instead of minutes of time on the face of a watch.
Life

Time

Today I came across this old time piece (pun intended). I made it several years ago as part of an

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