Did anyone else just watch the Winter Classic? Wasn’t it just a fantastic salute to hockey? As I was watching the game (in my lucky Mike Palmateer jersey) I recalled a New Years Day back in high school when a game of shinny started the year off just right. It...
“If the Fates allow…hang a shining star upon the highest bow. And have yourself a Merry Little Christmas now.” The immortal lyrics of Ralph Blane’s 1943 classic Christmas song have been clanging around in my heart the past few weeks as I...
This past fall I had the extreme good fortune to be the official photographer for one of the most insightful, entertaining and worthwhile education projects of my 20 year career in this field, the results of which you can see in the collage above. Have you ever seen...
I’m sure I will look back on 2013 as the year I got a much needed break. The year when I learned how to enjoy taking photos of people as much as landscapes (Thanks TVO!) The year when I finally learned what is important in life – family, friends, and good...
I just got back from a wonderful snowy walk in rugged Belfountain Conservation Area with “The Publishing Gals” to find the Toronto Beaches boardwalk lined with twinkling lights. What a great start to December! It reminded me that this is the time of year...
As many of my regular followers know, I spent each weekend this summer on an awesome assignment for TV Ontario’s Independent Learning Centre. My task: to take original photos to support Ontario’s new on-line course for Grade 12 World Cultures. The course...
This past Friday night I had the pleasure of attending one of my very first documentaries at the iconic Bloor Hot Docs Theatre with my dear friends, Kelly Ronan and Cara James, a.k.a. “The Publishing Gals”. You may know Kelly and Cara as my Sunday hiking...
I never imagined starting my blog post with a Lady Gaga quote but there you go. It just so happens her bold statement dovetails quite nicely with the theme for this week’s post. It is not the obvious “the more things change, the more they stay the...
Everyone has heard of the quote “A picture is worth a thousand words” but I think photographer Ansel Adams gets a bit closer to the real meaning of this oft-used saying. His full quote goes as follows: “When words become unclear, I shall focus with...
After four years of writing to you here each Sunday, I have learned an important lesson in story-telling. Stories have a life of their own and you have to let them go where they may. That is certainly the case with last week’s Thanksgiving post. It did not go...
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