Rebuilding the Site
Moving off Blot to Astro and Netlify — more control over structure and presentation, while keeping the plain-files workflow that worked.
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Moving off Blot to Astro and Netlify — more control over structure and presentation, while keeping the plain-files workflow that worked.

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…

· Workbench & The Shape of Places
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…

· In Passing & Workbench
Out for an early morning walk, enjoying the spring weather, morning light and blooming flowers! Shot in the SL2's available 3:1 aspect ratio and re-cropped in…

I found a neutral density filter amoung my photo gear today and it fits the 43mm threads on my Zeiss 35mm f2 Biogon. The M10's shutter tops out at 1/4000 of a…


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…

Most of my posts in recent months on this site have been of color photos. I have to admit to a renewed interest in color, despite a bit of hesitancy in putting…


· In Passing & Workbench
A few color versions from yesterday's Summer Haze photos. The smoke today has let up a little bit!

I was watching a YouTube video today about the Hasselblad XPan. The XPan is a circa 1998, 35mm film camera that takes panoramic images by exposing a wide…

After posting color photos from this morning, I had a second pass throught the files and processed some of the photos as black and white's. There are a few of…

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…

· In Passing & Workbench
Today was a gorgeous day to hang out at Granville Island with my wife for a while this afternoon. It was also a good opportunity to try out the diminutive…

· Workbench & In Passing
Some photo sets from my outing at Kits Beach at dusk on Sunday

I was doing some test maco shots in the garden the other day. I didn't really find any of the photos compelling in color, nor converted to "standard" black &…

· In Passing & Shared Spaces & Workbench
Some quick street test shots with the Fujinon XF 50mm f2 R WR lens on Shared Spacess of Yaletown this afternoon. This is a nice compact lens with a 75mm…

· In Passing & Shared Spaces & Workbench
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…

I'm increasingly interested in photos Workbench, images that that "go together" in some way to tell a story or present some common theme. Sets of 2 or 3 are…

· In Passing & Workbench
I wish I could say these photos were intentional motion blur shots. I was capturing passing moments on a walk and moved from bright sunlight into shade and…

These two photos were taken a couple of minutes apart and I think they sort of work as a pair.

One of the photos I took yesterday inspired me to go back into the garden and spend some more time photographing the Dhalias. The first photo was captured…


Occasionally, I come across some of my flubs that have some appeal. These two shots are completely out of focus but I'm drawn to them for some reason. I…

A couple more sets from the same outing. None of these are particularly good photos but I do enjoy them as a set.

· Shared Spaces & The Shape of Places & Workbench
One of the reasons I started this blog was to have a place to experiment and make notes about how I edit and present some of my photography. Most social media…
