Finally, spring has sprung around here. It took a while, but things warmed up enough for all the trees to bud and bloom, the tulips to open up, the grass to grow and for everything to feel decidedly summery. Time to break out the rosé and the cold brew!
Another week, another mixed bag of images. Spring has definitely arrived, the sun’s out, it’s time to pry myself away from the home office…
The end of April is always a mixed bag. The weather in Ottawa teases spring, but is really just toying with us. It snowed earlier in the week, but by week’s end we were dining al fresco and drying laundry on the clothesline.
This week’s theme in the 365 group was low key, so almost everything I shot for the project was dark. Considering how my week ended, the theme certainly set the right mood.
Over in the 365 group, this week’s theme was “high key photography” which was a theme that I was able to sink my teeth into, because it was less about subject and more about technique, freeing me to shoot stuff around my home office guilt-free.
March is a cruel month. Winter’s not quite over, although spring-like warmth and sunshine is teasing us, but in general things are cool and windy and gray and wet, making it hard to want to go outside for any reason, much less make photos out there. To top it off, it’s been a particularly busy …
The so-called south-west districts of Montréal—Pointe-St-Charles, St-Henri, and Griffintown—have always been rough and tumble working-class neighbourhoods. Much of this can be attributed to the industry that flourished in the area during the 19th and 20th centuries: industry (both light and heavy), shipping companies, chemical companies, lumberyards, grain mills, storage silos, and frankly any enterprise that …
This past week I was off work on “March break,” and it felt fantastic. It’s really nice to disconnect and do “nothing” for a bit. Of course, that gave me more time to get out and make photos, which is a kind of nothing that I can really sink my teeth in to. I even …
