GYST: Get Your Stuff Together
Photography. Tips, insights and fun stuff.
This week marks the fourth anniversary of flying a drone. Four years ago today I earned my pilot’s license and took to the skies legally and safely after completing testing and being issued with required legal paperwork. Fully licensed, registered, and trained, I have been […]
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The Image Of The Week (IOTW) comes from a recent trip to the Canadian Raptor Conservancy (great place, well worth a few visits) near Simcoe. Along the way I passed the old Stelco plant on Highway 3 near Nanticoke. I grew up in a mining […]
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Between Two Trees: Autumn Coming originally from England, dry stone walling brings memories of rambling aimlessly across the Yorkshire moors through heather and wheat, and fields full of cow pats. Summers spent leaving the house after breakfast and returning for supper. Fording streams, swinging across […]
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Coming originally from England, dry stone walling brings memories of rambling aimlessly across the Yorkshire moors through heather and wheat, and fields full of cow pats. Summers spent leaving the house after breakfast and returning for supper. Fording streams, swinging across rivers on ropes, and […]
Read moreMy absolute favourite time of day is just before dawn, when sunrise is moments away. Watching the sun come up over the horizon, spilling light across the landscape and turning cool greys into warm colours, never gets old. I gathered a collection of sunrise images […]
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I always try to look on the bright side of life. And not just because it’s a song by which to live your life, though I would argue it certainly is. Case in point: A few years ago, I passed this deer on one of […]
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In August 1918 a scow broke loose from the tug towing it along the Niagara river. It and the two men aboard became lodged in the rocks above Niagara Falls. It has been there now for over a century. Fast forward to October 2019. The […]
Read moreLast night production began on our 2023 calendars. Pre-orders are being fulfilled as fast as we can produce them and customers are either coming by to collect or awaiting delivery throughout Niagara for a flat $10 fee. Customers like this lady in the video, that […]
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A day at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy is time well spent. We love visiting this place. Located near Simcoe, it is home to a wide variety of birds of prey. As well as this wonderful Bald Eagle, we saw a Eurasian Eagle Owl, the biggest […]
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The Image Of The Week is an extreme close-up. It is rare to get close enough to see the tongue of an owl. The detail in this image shows the fine feather textures and razor sharp cutting edge of that vicious beak. Also, my wife […]
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