REMEMBERING THE PARKVIEW HOTEL

Last night I was looking at some of my old prints and then I realized that i never posted a picture of this old North Bay landmark the Parkview Hotel. This place held a lot of memories for many People her in North Bay. It was a great place but like many other old buildings, it now is only a memory.

ABANDONED FARM, NORTH BAY

The old farmhouse at the end of our street looks pretty neglected  yesterday's fog added to the forlorn look of the Winter landscape.

REFLECTION, NYC

Have not been on any photo trip lately. I am working on some other projects but when I was looking for some pictures I needed I got interested in a file with images I made in NYC. So I liked this reflection but I made a few different interpretations of this picture. I made a few in colour, which worked fine but eventually I prefered this toned monochrome image.

BARN NEAR WATERLOO, ONTARIO

Here is the barn where I photographed the cat sitting behind the glass enjoying the sun. It is quite interesting going back through my files and then using the raw files to create new interpretations of an image. It reminds me what Ansel Adams said. The negative is the score and the print is the interpretation. The RAW files are simply the substitute for the negative.

BARN CAT

Again working with some old images because I simply don't feel wandering around in this weather to take Winter images. This picture I made some years ago at the end of the Winter near Waterloo, Ontario. This area has some very beautiful old farms. Outside a barn I noticed some cats enjoying the sunshine. One of them decided to stay in the barn. The barn was old and tomorrow I will post a black and white image of the old farm.

VERY COLD

Yesterday the thermometer read -32º C. Let's say it was rather chilly while the day before we received about 30cm of snow. It kept us busy removing snow. So her is a picture of a brightly coloured amaryllis on our windowsill which added some nice colour to a Wintery landscape.

WINTER FIRE

My apologies for my very irregular postings. This week has been very busy and also it has been very cold too cold to go on my regular little photo excursions. Anyway, my neighbour cut one of our dead trees, which he then burned in the back garden. It was nice to feel the heat in the snow covered, cold landscape.

FIRST WINTER SNOW

Again I am late with posting pictures. Well my excuse is first the busy holidays and now a cold spell, which is not exactly a pleasant time to wander around looking for images. So I sorted through my files and found this image of the first snow fall in the early Winter of 2013. I should have posted this before because it is  quite a strong image of a very simple composition.

REFLECTION

Walking down the hallway I noticed the reflections of the sunlit hall and room. I am always intrigued by the visual abstractions of reflections. Most of the time we don't notice the strong unusual  pictorial "stopping power" of these simple fragments and details, which JWM Turner calls "pictures of bits".

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Its New Year's day so I like to wish all of you a very Happy New Year.

PORCH, NORTH BAY

The Christmas festive season is over. Our guests have left and , after cleaning up, its time to post another image. Last week I took a picture of this porch. I liked the red and white banners moving softly in the breeze. They added some colour to an otherwise grey Wintery day.

OLD BARN, VERNER

I like to wish everybody who has posted comments and followed my blog a very merry christmas and a great and happy NewYear.

WINTER, LAKE NIPISSING

It is of course still a busy time. Have not gone out to take photographs so Looked in my files and came across this image I made early December 2009. This year , of course we have had much more snow and the lake is frozen. However i liked the picture and decided to share it.

WINTER, MILKWEED

It is quite often the subject, which appears the most uninteresting part of a landscape, which then turn out to give us a very interesting image, full of textures,patterns and colours.

MAILBOX

Just down the road is an old farm. I have posted other pictures of this place but I had to photograph it again in the fog, which was the important element turning this landscape into a beautiful romantic image.

FOG

It was quite foggy today so, of course I had to go and visit some of my favourite sites to take advantage of this weather. I made quite a few nice images but, like this picture, you have to be very careful not to lose the subtle grey tones. It is too easy to go too contrasty, so you simply lose that special atmosphere created by the fog.

SNOW LANDSCAPE, LAVIGNE, ONTARIO

Lots of snow today. Again I am posting a picture from my files, actually going thru my pictures I like many of my older images. I made this picture near Lavigne . Just a touch of colour in an otherwise monochrome landscape gives the image a visual impact.

WINTER LANDSCAPE, POWASSAN

Another image from my picture files. This time a Winter landscape, which I took in 2007. I posted a picture of this farm in colour but I prefer the graphic quality of the black and white interpretation.

WINTER ROAD NEAR PERTH, ONTARIO

Busy times at the moment so I decided to brows my picture files. I took this picture last Winter on a small country road near Perth. I loved the busy textures of the tree and branches reminding me of some of the iprints by the old Japanese print maker Hokusai.

DRIVING HOME

Coming back from our weekend in Ottawa, we drove through some heavy snow squalls. Of course you can expect that at this time of year. While on the road I like to take pictures which are added to my file of road images. It is becoming a quite interesting portfolio.