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.