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A day late for father’s day, but the caption for this one would read something like:“Dad, when I grow up, I want to be just like you…”
Though this weekend was composed of 4am “starts” I did manage to snag a sweet deal on Monday. I had a golf cart to myself (the weather was beautiful), and I drove around taking photos of the Women’s Health Golf Classic for Sunnybrook. The only thing missing was the limiter taken off of the cart […]
I bought myself one of these and it’s working pretty well. Attila over at thinsite said I’d get extra geek points for buying a wifi skype phone – now it’s time to rake those points in and trade them for scotch.
Okay, so spending the weekend in Quebec just blew my mind. Why is Ontario’s provincial flower so completely prolific *outside* our province. I am stunned.
One of my favourite features of my backyard are the flowers that come up on my crab-apple tree; flowers are cool – cliche’s be damned.
Well, I had my yearly review on Friday and I *wasn’t* fired – after telling a few co-workers I figured they’d be relieved, instead they said “Damn, they didn’t take my advice” I wonder what they told my boss?I’m not green anymore, I’m a full blooded employee.
I took a momentous walk after work on Friday, I’d hoped to classify it as a photo-roam, but it was definitely a determined destination walk – a walk home. I came across this grand lawn of whatever these are, perhaps they are called… *Purple* and it altered my course up through a fairly affluent (*read: […]
I need to sleep more during the week. I napped *(read: fell asleep)* on the bus coming home from work and I missed my stop by a good Kilometre (That’s 0.621371192 miles for Brad).I ended up taking the scenic route back and noticed that the Humber river decided to spew out all of it’s ice. […]
I need to start going on longer and heavier walks to *train* for my trip in June. I can’t expect to huff my gear half way across Iceland by bus and foot without putting a little pre-effort into myself.I could see myself getting to Iceland, ready to go with my big Arcteryx pack and my […]
A colour we won’t be seeing for a while. After yesterday’s embarrassment I took a little more time in selecting my image today, I likened the posting of the same image twice (re-cropped or no) to the photoblog equivalent of incest. Thankfully I received little flogging in response to this, though it is, respectfully, some […]
This dude was given to me as a gift by my good friend Glenda a few years ago as a housewarming gift (G – let me know if I got that wrong), and he’s been having a hard time ever since. This year I’ve put it up in my computer/book room, let’s call it the […]
This is Chico, my hot pepper plant at work. He’s seen better days, but I keep him as warm and as fed as I can because he represents the spring, and my need for mui muchos photos.
I have completely neglected my yard duties for the later half of this year. It was all I could manage to mow the lawn, prune the trees, and half-ass trim the hedge; and the hedge is still overgrown. I’ve been underwhelmed by the desire to pick up leaves from the yard solo (a lot of […]
I really wish there were more edible and decorative plants around. I’m a big fan of practical items, and what’s more practical than something that looks good AND is delicious? I remember when I was in Vancouver last Blackberries were overflowing the highway. They were weeds, but delicious weeds! I was unsure as to posting […]
I just picked up the Canon 70-200mm f/4 L Telephoto Zoom, so I’ll take a picture of just about anything right now. This is the mommy plant to this one here, as a smoke bush, the clouds sort of look like wisps of smoke to me.
Moira wanted me to post the original, unprocessed version of this photo. Not to say I did a lot of work on this, I obviously didn’t, but without a crop, some saturation, and some more random *magic*, I wouldn’t feel good about posting what I had. I don’t even think the original is the same […]
Apparently the top of this tree has an anomale named a “broom.” it’s when the tip of the tree gets all hard and the wood is bigger at the top than at the bottom. I went to the Henry’s photo show this past weekend which proved to be a fruitless effort: 1.Henry’s is expensive 2. […]
Everyone has these amazing shots of fall in action. The first beautiful colour I saw this fall was from the small smoke-bush in our front lawn. Since I’ve been jones’ing for another lens, I wonder what else I could have shot this with? Paul’s Macro 60mm? Attila’s 70-200 f2.8 IS?
Moira picked these never to-be ripened perinatal butternut squash, nestling them to her bosom as I tore their umbilical asunder. Moira is a staunch pro-lifer, she believes that every life, is a life that should see the culmination of its gestation. That anything less would be barbaric and murderous. To see her protect these bulbs […]
I’m not going to try and take a lot of pictures of plants (since that’s really Paul’s thing), especially not with my 17-40mm, but I was asked to do so, and I’m fairly happy with the way this one turned out. Almost makes me want to get one of them Macro Lenses.
