ASPARAGUS

A few days ago I walked into the kitchen and saw these asparagus on the counter. I simply liked the textures, colours and reflections. Sometimes the simplest subjects can lead to some interesting images.

WINTER LANDSCAPE, CHISHOLM TWP

Again an image fro my files. The busy, random composition reminds me of the artwork of painters like Jackson Pollock or Franz Kline. The original image was made using my old Roleiflex, using Ilford HP5 film.

WINTER, ALSACE ROAD

 

One of my favourite areas where I like to photograph is an almost magical spot on Alsace Road near Powassan. Over the years I have been there with friends and students on photo trips and many of them returned to photograph the great group of beautiful old maple trees. I took this picture a few years ago but luckily the area has not changed very much since I started photographing there in the early seventies.

BLOWING SNOW, OTTAWA

We spent the very cold long weekend in Ottawa. It definitely was not a great time to look for pictures but I did take a few images like this from our window. The strong backlighting made for some interesting images with beautiful shadows.

AGAIN WINTER ALONG THE WASI RIVER

Thanks for your comment Dianne. I think you and David Ernst would really like the books by Richard Quinney. He is not only a respected  criminologist from Wisconsin but also a great photographer. I learned about his photography when I came across his  photobook "Things Once Seen" at the university library here in North Bay. I was quite impressed not only with his photographs but also his writing. So I simply had to buy that book and in addition I bought his book "A Sense Sublime" This book is almost a repeat of the first book I mentioned and , even though I enjoyed the second one, I prefer "Things Once Seen". It is better designed and printed. However I can highly recommend both books. Check out Borderland Books a publishing company founded by Richard Quinney.

WINTER, WASI RIVER, CALLANDER

A Winter image this time, I took this picture a few years ago along the Wasi river. It was a beautiful Winter day, with just the right light.

THE HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE REMEMBERED

Today a picture of the Highway Bookstore in Cobalt. It is apity that place closed many of us have very fond memories browsing the bookshelves of the Northern Ontario landmark.

LICHEN

I took this picture quite a few years ago in South River. The image of lichen on the rocks remind me of pictures from the universe. The sharp rock appears to split the universe in two.

REMAINS OF A BARN

Again an image from my files. I made a series of pictures of the remains of an old barn or maybe an old house. Light and textures are the strong visual elemnts of this image.

BARN NEAR VERNER, ONTARIO

Sorting through some old negatives I came across some images I took of an old barn between Verner and Lavigne. The original negatives were made with colour negative film. I combined the negatives into a panoramic picture and, using onOne software made into a quite dramatic black and white view.

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.