SPRING REFLECTION

 

Spring has definitely arrived. Yes the last two days were grey and wet days, feeling more like early Fall days. But we had some nice beautiful Spring days. Time to wander around looking for fine photo subjects. This image is more reminiscent of a impressionistic painting. It is a picture without strong subjects but rich in textures and irregular patterns. Your eyes wander first to the iregular pattern of the leaves then you see the strong shape of the the maple tree reflection in the water. 

In the next few days I will explain why I always or nearly always post only one image per day.

SPRING, LAKE NIPISSING

 Today's picture is a nostalgia image of Lake Nipissing. It is a visual remembrance of our life in North Bay. Yes we absolutely miss this truly beautiful lake and of course I will post memories of our wonderful time in North Bay.

ABSTRACT

 

Last month we visited the Ottawa City Gallery. Surprisingly we had never visited this gallery before and for us it was a great belated first visit. There were some very interested exhibition. Of course I couldn’t resist taking pictures. This was one of the more successful images. It is a picture which Andreas Feininger would identify having strong “stopping power”. The image has, beside the vivid colours, a. strong graphic power vibrating across the surface of the picture.

SPRING SUNSET

Last night I noticed the strong sunset colours reflected in the lower right windows of the new apartment building across the street. Of course I could not resist taking some pictures.
Initially I wondered why the sunset was not showing in all the windows untill it dawned on me that what I saw was the reflection of the adjacent building and the dark blue evening sky. The image was a delightful strong coloured and patterned abstraction.

 

NEW APARTMENT, KANATA, ONTARIO

 Time to start posting again. We moved last Fall from North Bay, a small city in Northern Ontario,  to Kanata a suburb an satellite community of Ottawa. Adjusting to this totally new environment was quite an emotional disruption  to our lives and we are still trying to assimilate to our new suburban lifestyle. Of course I am slowly adjusting my photography to our new way of life. So yes I see my images change. Black and white is becoming more prominent in my photographs.  Getting more adapted to living to our suburban life I think I’ll see a new interesting style developing in my photography.