Category Archives: photography
by the lake
managed to get out of the city yesterday… this was taken at the water’s edge at port hope, ontario…
seeds
A lot of people freak out over dandelions. It’s as if they’re not part of nature and some great hostile threat to the middle class homeowner. Projection, probably.
Myself, I just cut them with my push lawn mower and don’t really worry about clearing them from the lawn. By the time summer rolls around you can’t really see them anyhow.
I guess my relaxed attitude toward nature comes from spending childhood summers at Georgian Bay. Now THAT was nature. And it was almost entirely wild and untamed… unclipped.
So when I saw a patch of dandelions at St. John’s rehab not too long ago, I allowed myself to be mesmerized by their beauty.
life on the highway

I took this with a REALLY old cell phone. I just never bothered or felt the need to get a new one. The camera is primitive, but I sort of like the effect. Someday someone will probably make a photoshop filter called “old cell phone” to emulate the look!
last night i took off to the beach.. i don’t get too many opportunities to get away, and usually it’s just for a few hours. so when i hit the highway it’s really an event! Coming home I was listening to some of the latest electronica/dance tunes and was stunned by how good these artists are. Some might think that electronic music is soulless or tasteless when compared to so-called authentic instruments. But that’s a crock. Anyone who actually TRIES to do electronic music would appreciate just how talented the new, leading artists are.
I was also thinking about J.S. Bach, whose work I also love. He got all complicated with keyboard notes. And today, producers get all complicated with sounds produced by another type of instrument—the computer. What’s the diff when you get right down to it? A harpsichord or piano is a machine too. It just doesn’t use electricity.
Anyhow, those were my highway musings. I’m mixing down my latest MIDI project and will be posting it here fairly soon. This will be my second attempt at MIDI. Not nearly as good as the greats, but it’s fun (at least, fun when I’m not scratching my head over the technical stuff!).
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back at the beach
managed to get out of the city today… took mostly videos… this is an image capture of one of them…
tulips
This pic was one of a series taken last weekend at Edwards Gardens, Toronto. It’s a nice park, full of newlyweds getting wedding pics, etc. I used another pic from the same series for my blog banner.
cosmic mother
When I was in Ottawa a young artist, Karen Ritchie, living across the hall in my building gave this to me. She simply said “this is for you.” The title is something I’ve just added. As far as I know, it’s untitled. This is a film photograph of a watercolor painting.
icy
seized the opportunity to get out of the city yesterday and took another pic of the beach where i like to swim in the summer… i was the ONLY one there when I took this… felt like some kind of northern explorer in the old days…
jesus-of-the-snow-vintage-1
taken on feb 10 2013… just played around to make it look like it was found in the attic… (uploaded to Flickr as a jpg). If I’m in a finicky mood, it can be mildly frustrating uploading to Flickr. Compare the color mix to the image below. Personally, I’d like a combo of the two. But if I did that, by the time it’s uploaded to Flickr, the color mix changes again. So… I thought I’d just post both.






























