Winter(?) Beach Walk
By my calculations I've now spent more than half of my adult life in Vancouver. Having grown up on the praries one thing I'll never lose appreciation for is…
From Other Days
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Remembering Max
We lost our beloved Max yesterday. I don't have the words to describe what he meant to us other than to say he was the heartbeat of our family for the past 16…
Revising the Site
Over the past month I’ve been revising my personal website, moving it from a simple photo blog and notebook toward something with just enough structure to…
New Lens, Familiar Place
The first sunny morning this week was too tempting to not take a break from work and head down to Jericho beach to take some photos. I'm trying to spend more…
Out & About In June
June was a busy and pretty fun month with lots of photo opportunities. I've posted some of these images before so I thought I would limit this post to photos…
Out & About In May
I didn't venture too far from home in May, but home is pretty great. Here are some favorites. I'm not sure if there is a theme here, maybe The Urban Jungle &…
Milestone
I usually don't pay a lot of attention to my own birthday, I'm not particularly fond of parties or big celebrations. I feel the same way about milestone…
2024 Selects
I like to think I’m a decent photographer, I know I still have a lot to learn and that is part of the attraction of this pastime that I love. I’m not sure that…
I Love The Window Seat
Whenever I fly, I always try to get a window seat. It's the best way to eek out a little personal space and I love looking out the window and photographing the…
Colorful New Year
I decided to revisit yesterdays photos and select some that work well in color. I went for a bit of a film look and not overly saturated colors which I think…
A Short December
Realistically, I suppose, this December was the same lengh as the ones that came before it. Thirty one days (29 so far), 744 hours, even 5 full weekends this…
Recent Phone Favorites
I posted around this time last year how I prefer "real" cameras to my phone. I still manage to get images I like from my phone. Sometimes it's the only camera…
A Complicated Relationship
Everyone has some complicated relationships in their life. My relationship with color is complicated. I love color but I also love it's absence. I'm also in a…
An XPan(sive) Aspect
I posted last August about experimenting with the a panoramic aspect ratio that the Hasselblad Xpan (& Fujifilm TX-1) film cameras produced. It's a format that…
South Granville Springtime
The last time I hung out on South Granville was almost a year ago with my Leica M8. Wife and daughter were shopping so I tagged along with the M8's younger…
1999 NYC With An Olympus XA
My first trip to New York was in August of 1999. It was a quick business trip but I had a good part of a weekend to do some sightseeing. I brought my Olympus…
Last Summer Saturday
Today was a little cooler, cloudier and windier than we've been used to all summer. Autumn is definitely on the way. Still, it was a nice day to be outside and…
2022-08-16 06:40, Dunbar
Out for an early walk this morning around the neighbourhood. I'm really enjoying the tiny Voigtlander 35mm f2.5 Color Skopar as a walk-around lens!
Recent Phone Favorites
The cameras on modern smartphones are incredible. Camera technology, both hardware and software, has advanced to the point that it is possible to create…
Shades of Mount Pleasant
Being partially color blind makes me wonder how others percieve color and what attracts them to an image. My particular flavor of color blindness is amoung the…
Around the Block, Ricoh GX200
I was looking through my Lightroom catalog a couple weeks back and came across some photos I had made with the Ricoh GX200. The GX200 is a pocket sized camera…
M8 on South Granville
The M8 was Leica's first digital rangefinder, released in the fall of 2006. I aquired mine used in the spring of 2010 and fell in love with the camera and the…
Masked Sets
As the 2 year aniversary of the pandemic approached I started to look through my photo library for photos of people and thier masks. The ones presented here…
Museum Watching
Recently I came across an article on the <a href="https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/art/elliott-erwitt-the-art-of-looking-at-art/"…
M8 28
28mm is probably my favorite focal length. When I look at my Lightroom catalog many of my favorite photos are taken with 28mm equivalent lenses. I have a few…
Star of the Season
I was at the Granville Island Public Market on Remembrance Day to take advantage of the day off to combine some produce shopping with a short photo walk. There…
Gulf Islands of Two Novembers Past
It's been almost 2 years since I was on a seaplane travelling a couple times a month between Vancouver and Victoria. I miss those flights, especially the…
Clouds & Classic Chrome
It was an overcast morning but the sun was proving some nice warm light and some soft color to the clouds. I left the rangefinders at home this morning and…
Spanish Banks Mid-Summer Morning
I'm still getting used to the Zeiss 50mm 1.5 Sonnar lens but I do really enjoy the look of images that is produces!
Strathcona Farmer's Market
I was in Edmonton this past weekend with my daughters visiting my Mom, Sister & Nieces. It was a quick weekend trip but we managed a trip to the Strathcona…
2016 White Rock Pier
A collection of photos from a visit to the White Rock Pier on a nice spring day in March 2016. The pier was severley damaged during a windstorm in 2018,…
Meanwhile in 2009
Time flies.
Attracted to Danger
I'm pretty much a chicken when it comes to adventure (I prefer to think of it as low risk lifestyle!). I realized yesterday that there is something about…
(Re) Discovered
I love when I discover photos in my catalog that I don't have a clear memory of taking or had previously dismissed. Here are a few from Montreal in May of 2012…
