Category: Travels
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Labour day weekend Tito and I went on a short road trip through the Niagara escarpment. We checked out a great yarn store (Spun Fibre Arts), drove around wine country and saw a drive-in movie (my first!). We also got some great bug shots, startled some frogs, wandered through sunflowers taller than us and ate…
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Tito and I drove to Sault Ste. Marie on the weekend – a pretty ambitious endeavour since the Sault is about 9 hours from Toronto (13 if you stop, as we tend to do, for every interesting looking thing you see along the way). Before I do a post showcasing how gorgeous Lake Superior is, I…
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As a traveler, and a photographer, I know a good landscape when I see it. I’ve shot the Amazon jungle, the ruins of Italy, the English countryside, the temples of India, the gardens of Japan, the Andes, the Cloud Forests of Costa Rica and countless other places that have, literally, taken my breath away. But…
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La Mezquita in Cordoba, Spain has a rich history. I’m going to take a quote here from wikipedia, who explain it much better than I could ;) The site was originally a pagan temple, then a VisigothicChristianchurch, before the UmayyadMoors converted the building into a mosque and then built a new mosque on the site.[1]…
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I backpacked through Spain in 2009 in what was probably my least-planned trip ever – I got a rail pass, and winged it. I stayed in Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid, Cordoba, Cuenca, Granada and Seville. Spain is gorgeous and textured and culturally rich and would take a massive blog post to really describe, but today I…
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My life is going through one of those periods where I feel out of rhythm all the time. I’ve been travelling for work a lot – and while the shine hasn’t quite worn off on the idea that someone likes my photography so much they’ll fly me around instead of finding a perfectly suitable west…
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Leaving for Toronto in the morning and I am tired, but thrilled with the work done today. I couldn’t have asked for better skies. I shot for a total of 15 hours, starting at 4:30 am. Here are 2 of my favourites from early this morning, of lovely Calgary :)
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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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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.
The Blue Brick 