Tag: photos
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I enjoy how the harsh grid of the window screening softens the view into a light Gaussian blur.
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We collected this water, soil, and plant material from two vernal pools that regularly form where we live. It is amazing to get this view into the under-the-surface activity of these ephemeral ponds. There are fairy shrimp, daphnia, worms, what look like gastropods, more that we can’t identify, and likely so much more at the microscopic level.
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At least here in Ontario, the credo/reminder always holds true.
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Before our neighbour’s very large Manitoba Maple tree fell on our garage I would take night sky photos with it in frame and had named it Ghost Tree. Since then this tall but much smaller and further away from our garage Cottonwood tree has become the New Ghost. It doesn’t have the same presence as the other tree but it still adds some drama to these shots. On clear nights when our relatively countryside-adjacent property doesn’t have much light pollution — other than the same neighbours’ perpetual backyard security lights — I love star bathing. Moving out here from Toronto…
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I ordered this gorgeous photo zine from Diana Pappas and Tom Bland and it came this week. The photos themselves are wonderful but the storytelling and the overall care in how they designed and packaged it really shines. Get your own! https://pappasbland.com/fffb
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At a plaza here in town recently, I saw this scene from a distance in the fog and drove over to snap a few phone shots. This is a development site for new housing that used to be meadow and a pretty woods I hiked through a few times. A deep swath of the woods was cut down and the meadow scraped down and this year it looks like there is further excavation to probably make way for utilities and such. It’s an ugly eyesore and sure, people need homes but the way we treat the land to make that…
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Foggy and melting at this beach today. As I arrived there was a couple in their full wedding clothes trudging through the slushy snow with three photographers including a drone pilot. I guess they were trying to catch the magical feeling of the fog bubble today. The lake was essentially invisible, just a wall of hazy wall of white.
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Foggy day in our little almost post-industrial lake shipping town. A bunch of the big lake ships are moored and over-winter for a couple of months.
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Very very cold at the lake but it’s good to see this view through another flip of the calendar.
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This was the frozen surface of the partially dug pond in our yard today. It’s a long process because we have dense clay soil but someday we’ll have a new mini-ecosystem to visit and observe through all of the seasons.
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Sometimes Google Street View provides snapshots so rich with narrative they beg for whole novels of story to spill out from the blurred faces of the people frozen in them. Kimball, Nebraska 2024
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All those thousands of pinhole punched sparks of old light from minutes, hours, days, and years away from us — signs that we are part of something so much more vast and wonderful. But instead of exalting in that wonder, we turn and murder others because we want the land they live on. We are willing to watch as thousands of lives get buried under concrete. Connected generations halted under layers of industrial strata. Think about Gaza today and the people of Palestine with all of their family trees crushed and bulldozed, their bodies torn apart, mothers and fathers who…
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I finished this drawing in a second sitting this morning. In part, it was a good test of some new materials. It was also a nice chance to work with what was on the page. There are only two collage fragments added since the two pre-existing photos are like readymade collage in this case. This page is also a bit more “painterly” and has more colour play since I was trying the new materials that came with their own palettes.
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Last night I went out to look for meteors. It’s the time of the Perseids. The general thinking was that with the recently full moon and residual wild fire smoke that there wouldn’t be much to be seen. But I still stood out in the dark to catch a few stronger “shooting stars”. There’s a thrill in even seeing one so I didn’t really need a spectacle. More tonight if you have a dark enough sky. Standing in the dark quietly and facing the universe doesn’t hurt even if you can’t see a single star.
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I don’t take “real photos” much anymore but sometimes the light does something special and the phone is what’s at hand.
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5+ years ago when we were living in Toronto I walked roughly 7km to work in the mornings and I had a habit of taking a self portrait in front of this alley garage mural of Yoda.
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The sky was doing some stuff tonight.
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Determined that standing in the dark of our yard trying to take pictures of fireflies is far less rewarding than just standing in the dark of our yard experiencing fireflies.
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We have a small cherry tree under a protective mesh bag and in the sunlight it becomes its own little world. It reminded me of this beautiful photo experiment by Diana Pappas and Tom Bland – https://pappasbland.com/17