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.
Do Your Backup
Today I had the not so enjoyable experience of a hard drive failure. My main working Document drive with 102 Gb and over 132,000 files just ceased to be there. No warning. No fanfare. No files. Fortunately I have a backup plan. Everything is automatically copied both to a separate local drive and to an…
Garden City Skyway
Somewhere In Niagara is a bridge. The Garden City Skyway in St. Catharines bridges the Welland Canal, providing a high capacity East-West traffic route for the QEW. Prior to construction all traffic used the old jacknife bridge, which was a significant traffic bottleneck. The old bridge remains and still sees very high usage from local…
Event Photography
Weddings, birthdays, retirements, memorials, and celebrations of life. Conferences. Trade shows. Product launches. Press releases. Any large scale event benefits from an event photographer. Your event deserves to be remembered. Whether for posterity, corporate team building, marketing ROI, or just for fun. Event photography requires stamina, thinking fast, and sheer persistence. Your guests will be…
Aguasabon Falls
The Trans-Canada Highway connects East to West (and also West to East) Atlantic and Pacific Canadian coasts. It is 7,476 km (4,645 mi) long and passes through ten provinces. Along the way it travels along Highway 17, which follows the Northern shore of Lake Superior. Between Wawa and Thunder Bay, the road passes through Terrace Bay. There is…
Sun On Snow
Doing the rounds this morning I came across this freshly turned snow catching the sun. It somehow reminds me of my youth spent building snow forts and throwing snowballs. Back in the days when kids went out at sunrise and came home at sunset, and parents had no cause to worry in between. Back in…
Cold Weather Destroys Photos
I used my longest lens (Sigma 100-400 DG) to capture these waves breaking over the lighthouse at Gravelly Bay in Port Colborne. The photo, while OK, is spoiled by heavy atmospheric distortion, a not uncommon effect when using a telephoto lens which until today I attributed to regular heat haze. But in these conditions, -10…
Buffalo Water Intake
The Buffalo Water Intake sits along the invisible border between Canada and the U.S. in Lake Erie, near the Southern entrance to the Niagara River. It is the source of much of the fresh water that feeds Buffalo, NY. To describe what we see here, basically, this circular building surrounds a hole. Inside that hole,…
Owl In Flight
It is said that a picture paints a thousand words. If so, caption this Great Horned Owl in flight at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy in Simcoe, Ontario. Seriously, leave a comment. Pictured is James, the owner of the conservancy, seen here in close proximity to that fast-moving four foot wingspan and razor sharp beak and…
Learning Curves
Learning curves are constants in life. Rarely a day passes without some new knowledge permeating our thick skulls. Particularly so for those actively seeking knowledge, understanding, and self development. As a photographer I have much still to learn. I hope to be on that learning curve for the rest of my life. There is always…
