Smoke from northern wildfires descends on Saskatoon, casting the city in muted, sepia tones.
After the rain
A prairie rain skims over a dry landscape on a summer day. It’s been dry for weeks. Parched grasses rustle crisply as the lightest breeze sighs a breathless gasp through them under the baking mid-summer sun. The ground crunches with each footstep. Signs warn of extreme wildfire hazard. But then the rain. Not a downpour. […]
Memories in film: Cats Basking
Barn cats relaxing in warm sunshine on a late autumn day, 1 November 1987.
Memories in film: shadowy figures
Shadowy figures on catwalk, National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 30 July 1988. Three people with their backs to the camera are seated at tables on a catwalk suspended above the main floor of a glass wall on a day when the sky is hazy. Another catwalk is suspended one floor above, with no people. […]
Memories in film: Ottawa River sunset
Hazy sunset, Ottawa River, Ottawa, 7 July 1988. Kodachrome slide with characteristic magenta cast contributes to moody tone of sun setting on a day with sky hazy from smoke of wildfires in northern Quebec and Ontario. Sun hangs like an orange ball in a magenta sky above a forest tinged dark blue in the haze […]
Memories in film: Battle for a Capital
The Canadian War Museum presented “Battle for a Capital”, a mock battle of the American Revolution and the creation of the Canadian-American Boundary, 1775–1783. In 1988, some 700 American and Canadian re-enactment enthusiasts gathered at Major’s Hill Park on Saturday, July 2 and at Jacques Cartier Park on Sunday, July 3, attracting about 50,000 spectators. […]
Vancouver memories in Kodachrome
Organizing the archive, ran across slides of the old Vancouver neighbourhood, 1980. That place sure has changed! Kodachrome 64 35mm slides, 1980.
Something new: Swanson #1 print
“Swanson #1”, continuous tone chromogenic print on photographic paper, 5 in × 7 in, matted, 8 × 10 wood frame.
Road trip on smoky day
Too many times in my life, I’ve said, “I should get a picture of that. Not today. Another time. It’ll always be there.” And then it wasn’t. So many missed opportunities.
Construction Sucks!
After using the same Wordpress theme for the past seven years, it’s time to update and, as we all know, construction has a way of getting out of hand.