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  • Taking A Chance

    This is one of my favourite pictures I’ve taken this year… (but it almost didn’t happen)… My birthday this year was a significant one.  I wanted to mark the occasion by doing something I’d never done before and by going somewhere I’d never been before. But, once I booked the trip with Ocean Adventures to…

  • learning and being taught

    I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill I like looking up quotes, especially when I’m avoiding doing something (I have a photo project on the go that is giving me some frustration) and I laughed when I read this quote.  Anyone who has tried to teach…

  • Grey Cup 101

    I had high hopes prior to last week that I would get some spectacular photos during Grey Cup Festival events and at the game itself.  Alas, I have excuses why I didn’t accomplish that goal! It was cold outside. Really cold.  (Although, perhaps that’s not really a good excuse because I did take pictures at…

  • City Square Plaza

    Regina’s City Square Plaza is a controversial space for a lot of different reasons – for me the three biggest are that it was massively over budget, cars and pedestrians share the space which in my opinion is a recipe for disaster, and the architectural features are ugly.  Don’t get me wrong, I actually think…

  • denial

    Since spring/summer weather was so late to arrive this year, I’m in denial that today is the first day of fall… so here are some pictures from the Summer Solstice at English Bay in Vancouver.  It was a beautiful evening and it felt like everyone in the city was out enjoying the warm summer night.…

  • gold

    This is the time of year when everything starts to turn to gold.  Spring and summer are my favourite seasons, but I have to admit this is a pretty time of the year (although not here today as it’s windy, grey, and wet).  November and March are my least favourite months of the year –…

  • Sunday Morning Miscellany

    A lazy Sunday morning seems like a good time to post a few miscellaneous pictures. I’ll likely do another “Photography Lessons – Things I’ve Learned” post soon as I feel like I’ve learned a lot this summer, but this morning I just feel like posting a variety of pics I’ve taken in the last few…

  • The Road Not Taken

    I realized as I was going through my photo library today that I like to take pictures of roads. One of my favourite poems is The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. So, today’s post is a combination of two of my favourite things (and yes, the last picture is not of a road, but…

  • Sir Paul McCartney at Mosaic Stadium

    Last night was a pretty fantastic night in the Queen City.  Sir Paul McCartney was in town and played to a sold-out Mosaic Stadium (I think that was the final word – there was some debate beforehand why it didn’t sell-out sooner).  I’m not a Paul McCartney superfan, but I definitely knew I was going…

  • Hot Springs for the Weary Traveler

    I’m not naming many of the inlets we visited on our trip through the Great Bear Rainforest because most of the other tour operators don’t visit them, and we were asked not to name them if we were posting stories/photos on the internet once we got home. However, the hot springs at Bishop Bay (where…

  • like being in another world

    I’m back to posting pics from my trip to the Great Bear Rainforest off the coast of Northern British Columbia.  This was my favourite morning of the trip (and actually the last morning of the trip as we were heading back to Hartley Bay to catch the seaplane back to Prince Rupert and then on…

  • Evening in the Great Bear Rainforest

    Prior to the trip, I imagined spending evenings on the deck of the boat watching the setting sun with my camera by my side and a book in my hands.  Since the Great Bear Rainforest is fairly far north and the trip was the week before the summer solstice, it didn’t get dark until about…