Category: Photography
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Hamilton, or ‘The Hammer’ as most of us know it, is a great study in opposites. On one hand it has massive steel mills right on the harbour, belching smoke and open flame, black with soot and looking very blade runner, or as one commenter put it, “hot dirty and apocalyptic”. On the other it…
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(Most) photos taken under the Burlington Skyway. Liberties taken with Photoshop ;)
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Last Saturday Tito and I had the opportunity to be part of the annual shearing day at Alpaca Acres. Our friends, Anne and Dan, invited us and a bunch of their friends to come help out on this busy day, taking their herd from this: To this: We were so impressed by this process. The…
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I have so much to talk about – new glass out of the kiln, Alpaca shearing day up at Alpaca Acres, WIP shots of my TFA KAL…. but none of that photography is processed. So I leave you with a photo of… the beast. My parents ferret has quintupled in size since we got him…
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The Boston Common, or Boston Public Garden, dates from 1634. It’s a large, beautiful park right in the middle of the city. I spent much time knitting, reading, walking and thinking there.
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I apologize in advance for the image heavy post – but there was no short way to tell this story :) In December, the Yarn Harlot very kindly featured my yarn bowls on her blog, which resulted in my being inundated with requests from the US. I don’t ship pottery any more, but decided to…
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Thank you to everyone who viewed my photos and left comments, and a special thanks to those who signed up as followers on WP or Facebook! A great photo usually has a little story that goes along with it. I thought it might be nice today to share some of the stories associated with a…
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One of the most satisfying things to photograph are birds. They’re beautiful and graceful, colourful and elusive, sometimes also fast and camouflaged… all of which combines to make them that much more challenging and rewarding. Here are some of my faves, and where I took them. Every shot in this collection was the same lens; the…
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A little while ago I posted about our friends, the Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra. While they were in Toronto we had the opportunity to do another shoot, and for this one we chose a place that’s very special to us; the carillon tower of the Metropolitan United Church here in downtown Toronto. Tito and I were…
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A few years ago Tito began a series of paintings inspired by musical instruments. He was constantly on the lookout for new things to paint; thinking about instruments day and night. One day were were walking outside of Union station and there was this band. Unlike any band we’d ever seen, they had a fiddle,…
The Blue Brick 