Category: Photography
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I’ve got the time lapse bug again, and last weekend I spotted the perfect thing for my next experiment – a potted hyacinth. Apparently store bought plants are ‘forced’ to bloom by freezing and then thawing the bulb before sending it to the store. It sounds mean, if you think about it, but it made…
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I went to sleep on Saturday night and when I woke up these two buggers had snuck into the living room and set up camp. They’re ugly, but they’re my first fluff-babies so I’ve let them stay. We went for a walk in the music garden, and I got to know their deep and complex…
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Happy New Year :) I wish you all a happy healthy 2013! A few months ago I received this email: Dear Shireen, I’ve seen your magnificent blog and fell in love with Newfoundland. We are redecorating our house and had been searching for a living room wall poster for a long time. When we saw…
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Yesterday we were promised snow, and lots of it. Because I am short sighted and forgetful, when 7 pm passed and the snow failed to arrive I went out for dinner… in heels. Cue the snow! By the time I got home (thank goodness for the mobile, heated, oasis-on-wheels known as cars) it was a…
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Every year as part of our Christmas gift to our biggest client we print and frame a selection of my work – it’s always fun trying to choose the very best of what I have that year, and so awesome and satisfying to see it printed up! We use kodak metallic stock to bring out…
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Looks like Reddit got hold of this post about my crochet camera cosy yesterday, and the blog stats went through the roof :) Thanks for the Reddit love! I’m deep in Christmas crafting, part of the gift plan this year is the restoration of these 2 photos: The top one is from 1927, the bottom one…
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I’m one of those people that can only eat meat by never thinking too hard about where my food is coming from. So, when the abattoir truck changed it’s morning route and started going by my home I was pretty distressed. In this case it’s pigs, and you can smell the truck long before it…
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Sparrow 1. Bald Eagle 0. Taken in Tofino, BC.
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Yesterday I had to do some photography from the CN Tower as part of a project (it’s a tough gig, I know) and I got to thinking about what an amazing engineering achievement the tower is. My father is fond of telling me about how he and a friend spent April 2nd, 1975 lying on…
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I’ve got the video bug, mostly driven by the fact that I purchased one of these. An intervalometer, or timed remote release for the 7D. I’ve been aiming the camera out the window at night and at dawn trying out time lapse photography and I’ve got to say that so far I’m really pleased. Here…
The Blue Brick 