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Drone pilot out exploring. Somewhere in Niagara

I am a working photographer, videographer, and drone pilot. I’ve been serving the Niagara region for 2 decades.

This is the blog section. It’s not about work, you can read that on the other pages and see some portfolios if you want to. This page is about the fun things in my life. Photography. Nature. Technology. And whatever else I feel like writing about. It’s about life, the universe, and everything. From Carl, your friendly neighbourhood Camera Guy.

  • A Field Full of Sun

    A Field Full of Sun

    One fine Summer day last year I took the drone to a local field of sunflowers. I spent the next

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  • Lake Gibson From The Air

    Lake Gibson From The Air

    Shot a few years ago from my drone, this is the boardwalk at Lake Gibson, in Thorold, Ontario. Just off

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  • Spring Forward

    Spring Forward

    Clocks, if not the humans that live their lives by them, spring forward this weekend. On Sunday at 2am (they

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  • Up With The Sun

    One Summer day the wanderlust came upon me. I rose early. Up with the sun, I drove for a solid

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  • Per Ardua Ad Astra

    Per Ardua Ad Astra

    Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Canada. Per Ardua Ad Astra is the motto of the RAF as well as several commonwealth

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  • Newsletters

    Newsletters

    After a recent hard drive failure I restored everything from a backup. See link. During the restore process I did

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  • Canadian Houses Of Parliament

    From the other side of the Rideau Canal the Canadian Houses of Parliament stand tall and proud against the Autumn

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  • Pebble Beach

    On an 18-hour road trip from Niagara to Thunder Bay, we stopped for an hour to check out the Pebble

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  • Backup

    I recently posted about the importance of having a backup plan for your digital files and devices. This is such

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