Tag: photography
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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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Have you ever seen a photo of water and wondered how they get the water to look so silky and smooth? The answer is a trick, all you need is a tripod and a DSLR or digital that lets you shoot in full manual. Set your camera on the tripod and set it to manual…
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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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Blogging from Calgary tonight, and feeling totally beat. It’s 12:30 am according to my body, and I’m getting up at 4:30 to shoot the blue hour. However, I am travelling and shooting and being paid to do my 2 favourite things, so I can hardly complain about being tired. Oh, and I got a new…
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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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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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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…
The Blue Brick 