Maria’s away in Kingston visiting her mother, so I went out for lunch today in Carleton Place. Dropped in for a burger and root beer. On the way back I took my favorite country road...
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Month: April 2018
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My grandma’s family album contains many photos such as this one of the younger folks in 1917. A lot of the pictures are quite large and are obviously enlargements of the original camera negative. The...
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It’s been a month on the calendar, the trees haven’t got their leaves yet but today was the first real sign of spring in Almonte. It’s been a long time coming but I think...
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When I started out in photography and for many years after I just had one camera at a time. First I had a cruddy old 127 roll film compact, then a 35 mm rangefinder,...
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No, not that Mr. Rogers – I mean Rogers Communications. That’s Ted Rogers, not Fred Rogers. Cable TV and satellite providers in Canada keep moaning about the fact that customers are thinking of cutting the...
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There’s an old saying that a woman can’t have enough handbags and a (usually male) photographer can’t have enough camera bags. I suppose that’s true in the case of the photog anyway. I mean,...
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This is the third and final blog post about digital photography in 2018 – at least as I see it. Consumer film photography was in its heyday for 100 years. The age of the...
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I was a late bloomer when it came to travel – I didn’t have my first plane ride until my early 20s and I never left North America until my mid-30s. Nevertheless, I have been...
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First the good news: there is an unprecedented interest in photography right now. More digital photos are being taken and shared on the Internet than ever before. Now the bad news: the camera makers have...
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This was the first time in 14 years that we traveled during the Ontario March school break, and our cruise ended on the day that all the students would be coming home from vacation....