Get Your Stuff Together: GYST
Photography tips, insights and fun stuff
While out driving the back roads this week I came across this Midland Painted Turtle sitting calmly in the middle of the gravel track. Stopping to say hello, I carried this guy (I looked – it’s harder to identify the gender of a turtle than […]
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Mystery Train I have taken the summer for some much needed time to reflect and revitalize. And now I’m back. Somewhere In Niagara is my continuing journey through the gravel tracks, disused dirt roads, and side trails of the Niagara region, capturing nature off the […]
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Over the last two years my tastes have moved me more into landscape photography, as I drive around enjoying the sights and sounds of Niagara. This in turn has led toward the use of longer and longer focal lengths, maxing my zoom lenses to get […]
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I created an album cover mockup for a fictional album by a fictional band, Styx (not). Here’s how it came about. During one of my early morning outings I captured the mist-shrouded Clarence Street bridge in Port Colborne. The gloomy atmosphere lent itself to thoughts […]
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My long-suffering lady and I explored an area of several square miles of potentially fatal rattlesnake-infested peat bog, where a single misstep could suck the unwary to their doom in it’s dank and fetid embrace. Seemed like a good way to spend Mother’s Day. This […]
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In December 2020 I visited the Canadian Raptor Conservancy, home to several species of Raptors (Birds of Prey) from around the globe. It’s a fantastic place I can fully recommend to bird lovers and photographers alike. Words really cannot do it justice, so I made […]
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I love to see a new day begin. There is something about it which makes anything possible. So I go out, and see the world awaken. Again and again. This week in Somewhere In Niagara: Another Sunrise. I was fortunate enough to see several sunrises […]
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I like to drive around taking photos of things of beauty that catch my eye. No plan. I take random lefts and rights and often have no idea where I am going until I get there. That’s the core concept behind Somewhere In Niagara – […]
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Driving Miss Nikki I do like to drag my long-suffering wife with me on my outings when I can. It’s always more fun to share things in real life than as anecdotes when you get home, and we do have fun. A lot. I am […]
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In this episode of Somewhere In Niagara, Nikki and I are back in St. Johns Conservation Area. We like this place. I have a lot of video and images so it seems a shame not to use it. Please note that everything filmed here was […]
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