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Photography. Tips, insights and fun stuff.
Today’s Image Of The Week comes from a very enjoyable two hours hours spent on the beach watching the oncoming storm along the shore of Lake Erie. The storm left in it’s wake a lot of property damage and many homes were without power for […]
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When I’m not taking landscape images for leisure, I am an event photographer and a corporate headshot kinda guy. But sometimes I do book personal shoots. Like this one, for baby’s first Christmas. This being online, I won’t name the family. Let’s leave it at […]
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This late Autumn image encompasses the full cycle of crop farming. Seed to silo, silos are intrinsic to modern agriculture. This one sits on the horizon at the centre of acres of crop fields. But not all crops are destined to see the inside of […]
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I have decided on a change of pace and lifestyle. On social media platforms I am one Starling in a host of others. It is very hard to focus on any single Starling when they flock in their tens of thousands, which by the way […]
Read moreI’ve lived in Port Colborne since coming to Canada nearly twenty years ago. It’s a fairly small community; under 20 thousand residents. Perched on the North shore of Lake Erie looking across the lake to the United States, this is a border town at the […]
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The Ferruginous Hawk is named for a characteristic rust-coloured plumage which may be differentiated from similar hawks by a distinctive V-shaped white underbelly and chest, formed and framed by their darker wings and legs. This V-shape is most noticeable when soaring, with wings spread. The […]
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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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