Monday, March 04, 2024

Waiting for twilight

But wait, there's more...
London, ON
March 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

The sun disappeared 20 minutes ago. Not that anyone would have known, though, because when it did the skies were relentlessly grey.

I probably should have given up back then, but a little voice whispered in my ear: stay.

So I did.

And soon enough the clouds began to slowly break up. And by the time I leaned against a tree and captured this image, the rays of twilight were doing their thing from well below the horizon.

I get that this is all just optics, a massive, ever-shifting illusion that plays out in and around the terminator, where the sun shows up, and leaves, in a never-ending race around the planet. I get that this has been happening for billions of years, and will likely continue for billions more.

But the thing is we’re not here for billions of years. I don’t know how many sunrises and sunsets we get, but it’s a lot less than billions.

I do know that witnessing one of these transitions makes me feel, I don’t know, warm. Good, even. It forces me to slow down. To block out distractions. To think. To reflect.

I’d like to think this is a healthy thing. So here I am. Even if some nights I end up wasting my time while the sun hides behind thick layers of grey.

Because not coming out at all would be an even bigger waste. As would never trying in the first place.

Because when you quietly wait it out, there’s at least a slight possibility you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Sounds like a reasonable trade-off to me. At sunset or any other time.

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Sunday, March 03, 2024

Weird cloud overhead

The late, late show
London, ON
February 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Strange things understandably happen on February 29th, and this year’s leap day was no exception, as this weirdly shaped cloud decided to accompany the sunset over our neighbourhood park.

These random sunset walks that I’ve been taking are teaching me the value of patience. Because despite the fact that the sun had officially set at 6:14 p.m., the light was still reflecting off the clouds long after our beloved star had disappeared below the horizon.

I wasn’t alone in the park this night, as a couple of other folks had stopped nearby to shoot the disappearing sun. They disappeared as soon as it had set, though, the darkening clouds suggesting the show had ended for good.

But nature always has surprises up its sleeve, and tonight was no different. So I waited a bit, and was rewarded with the scene you see here. The reflected light intensified for just a few seconds before it faded out for the night.

I’m glad I hung around, and I wish more folks who stop to take in the spectacle would do the same.

We’ve been taught that patience is a virtue. What better way to bring that lesson to life than to linger a little longer when the skies decide to bid farewell for the day.

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Saturday, March 02, 2024

Watching the waves roll in

Energy on display
Port Stanley, ON
September 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

It’s been a while since I did this, so I’m sharing this photo as a reminder to myself to get out there again.

To stand on a beach and allow my feet to sink into the sand.

To watch wave after wave crash into the shore for no other reason than it’s incredibly Zen-like to do so.

To feel the breeze on my face.

To listen to the birds argue endlessly with each other as they dive from to sky to sand in search of their next morsel.

To let the spray linger on my bare legs as an all-too-brief reminder that I was here.

To close my eyes and just feel the energy of this place where water meets earth.

To simply appreciate that I get to be here at all.

Because we all have our own beach. Or a similar place that means something to us. To where we return when we need a reminder or two that Planet Earth can be a lovely place if we let it.

We just have to allow ourselves to stand there and take it in.

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Friday, March 01, 2024

When cloud animals play in the sky

Lifecycle
London, ON
July 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

The cloud animals played in the sky before bedtime.

The trees watched intently and gave them a standing ovation.

Perhaps they’ll all be back tomorrow for another show.

But first, sleep.

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Winter in Dryden

Where Wilson Street ends
Dryden, ON
January 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Winter just loves to play games with light and colour.

After the snow has fallen, or the ice has frozen, or both, it’s common for the colour palette to shift from vibrant to near-monochrome. Things that might have appeared overly saturated before the storm now feel like they’ve been run through a beloved old roll of Kodak TRI-X.

It’s a show that never gets old, and something to look forward to at a time when we might otherwise want to curse the cold.

So I’ll be the weirdo who after the storm ebbs will don a giant parka, even larger-scale boots, and enough layers of woolies to guarantee me permanent resident status in Greenland. I’ll grab a camera and head out into the near-black-and-white wonderland.

When I get there, I may find some colour hiding in unexpected places. I’ll see shapes and textures that will only exist in this form for as long as the temperature remains below zero. I’ll feel something I wouldn’t be able to feel without the wintry blanket covering almost everything in sight.

I don’t love winter. I suspect most Canadians don’t, and I’m certain the ones who say they do are probably lying. It’s a hard, uncomfortable, even dangerous slog.

But there are enough reasons to love this place, enough good reasons to stay right here. Because the good of Canada far outweighs the weathery bad.

I can’t change the weather, anyway. But I can absolutely change how I choose to see it.

It’s stunningly beautiful. It figuratively and literally takes our breath away. And it’s strictly temporary.

So we enjoy it while we can.

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Watching planes chase the sun

Framed sky
London, ON
February 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

The skies were busy as day turned to night, as a sudden swarm of planes high above chased the sun and left traces of their passage behind.

We’re all chasing something, after all. And we’re all leaving some sort of mark along the way.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Picture window

Scene from a hotel stairwell
Laval, QC
February 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Nondescript windows in nondescript hotel stairwells can be anything but nondescript if the right conditions present themselves.

Like the ethereal glow of late afternoon light on the window coverings on a day that up until that moment had been as dark as any in recent memory.

The lesson: look for the light. You’ll find it. Sometimes in the most unexpected place.

#montreal #laval #quebec #canada #throwback #roadtrip #travel #sun #weather #wx #photography #apple #iphone #shotoniphone #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded

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Monday, February 26, 2024

The Marlboro Man hates recycling

Out of time
St. Laurent, QC
February 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

We find the craziest things in the shadows.

Like this crushed pack of Marlboros in the frozen corner of a crumbling parking lot, discovered as we got back into the car while running errands.

I was of two minds about it as I processed the scene in my mind.

As ticked off as I was at humanity’s tendency to indifferently ruin the planet, I was equally fascinated by the spontaneous appearance of a brand I hadn’t thought about in decades.

Curiosity won out as I crouched beside the open car door and fast-composed this bizarro still-life scene. My wife, bless her, patiently watched and waited in the cold as I played photographer behind the tattered Tim Hortons coffee shop.

Like every experience with her, I learned something from this one, too. That even in the middle of a dark day amid too many dark days, there’s life - however strange - to be found in the spaces where we normally wouldn’t look.

So we look anyway.

#montreal #stlaurent #quebec #canada #roadtrip #travel #parking #lot #winter #weather #wx #stilllife #photography #apple #iphone #shotoniphone #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded

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Sunday, February 25, 2024

All dogs deserve a Place

What home looks like
London, ON
February 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

To the rest of us it’s a simple dog bed. But to her it’s her Place.

When she needs a break from the stresses of the world, this is where she’ll go.

All we have to do is say the word, place, and she’ll jump in, spin herself around, and plop down in a tightly wound ball of fur.

Sometimes she’ll chew on the increasingly frayed corner of the pillow before she flops her head over the edge and settles down. She’ll lie very still as she pretends to be sleeping, but those giant furry eyebrows of her always give her wandering eyes away.

She’s smart, but not very subtle.

I’ll often watch her as she sighs heavily and settles into the gently worn fabric. I’ll wonder what she’s thinking about, if she’s happy, if she knows how much we adore her.

And I’ll quietly wish we could all find our own version of Calli’s little place.

Because everyone deserves refuge from the storm.

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Saturday, February 24, 2024

Abstract winter parking scene

After the plows have gone
Laval, QC
February 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Conventional wisdom dictates that a snowy parking lot in the deep shadows behind a hotel wouldn’t be a top choice for a photographer.

I’m nowhere near conventional, and my social media feeds suggest the wisdom thing is iffy, too. But when you’re far from home and find yourself in need of a photographic moment of shelter, you take what you’ve been given.

And so I ended up in a stairwell overlooking the freshly plowed lot. The snow squalls that dogged us all the way in had moved on, leaving a classic Montreal winter scene in their wake.

I could practically feel the frigid temperatures through the dirt-streaked windows, and looked for some way to remember what it felt like to be in the moment.

Not exactly the loveliest of places, but we didn’t travel all this way for a happy reason, and the darkness of the day seemed to dovetail nicely with the unconventionally desolate scene playing out below.

Every photo has a backstory. Or at least it should. And even if the story is tinged with sadness, it still deserves to be told in some way.

This, then, is my way.

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Friday, February 23, 2024

After the last fan has left the stadium

Watching...
Toronto, ON
September 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

I grew up watching the Montreal Expos lose their way year after year into the hearts of Montrealers. Eventually they started to win, only to leave the city they first called home.

It was a hard lesson in real-world sports economics, where the simple joy of just being a fan wasn’t nearly enough to keep the magic going.

So these days we root for Canada’s only remaining Major League Baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays.

And as I often do whenever we see them play at the Rogers Centre (Skydome forever!) I like to wander the concrete concourse after the game and grab a few random memories through glass before we head for home.

I settled on the lower bowl seats this time out, because I knew they’d be gone before our next visit. The old stadium is in the middle of a huge makeover designed to maximize profits from fewer customers. That real-world sports economics thing again.

I needed to remember what it felt like to sit in the stands and watch our heroes play a game they loved.

#toronto #yyz #ontario #canada #throwback #bluejays #rogers #centre #stadium #skydome #baseball #sports #sportsing #photography #photooftheday #canon #canon_photography #canonphotography #photography #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

The big bug conundrum

That's a lot of legs...
London, ON
January 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

The planet belongs to the insects, and we just live here.

So when they show up inside the house, I feel more than a small amount of guilt that I have to, ah, find a way to remove them from our midst.

Normally I’ll do my best to coax the little folks outside. If I can get it onto a Kleenex* or paper towel, I’ll happily walk them outside and introduce them to their new home. The snow-covered bushes are particularly lovely this time of year.

This particular bug, however, may have met a different fate, as it was far more freak-out-worthy than a typical spider. Just the legs alone gave me chills, and there was no way I was going to allow that thing to keep roaming the house unimpeded.

I still feel guilt from having dispatched him (her? It? Neither?) but no one ever said life - an insect’s, a human’s, or any other organism’s - had to be fair.

Indeed, it isn’t. Bug or no bug, it’s a lesson we all learn one way or another.

* Kleenex is no longer sold in Canada. The company last year announced it was pulling its products from store shelves in the Great White North because apparently Canadians weren’t buying enough of it. Or something. Funny how the brand persists in our hearts, though. Marketing…

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Yellow shopping carts in a frozen parking lot

Just pick one
Dryden, ON
January 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Shooting the ordinary has always been a bit of a thing for me. I call them in-between moments, when you’re busy going through the motions of everyday life and you want to remember the minutiae that would otherwise slip unnoticed into the past.

No one’s going to wax poetic about a line of yellow shopping carts in a frozen parking lot in northwestern Ontario. At least that’s not what we’ve been taught.

Instead, we’ve been conditioned to zero in on the spectacular and the familiar. Think CN Towers and Niagara Falls instead of railway repair equipment and grasses growing in ditches.

But when we root through the photos, we end up with lots of CN Towers and Niagara Falls. Which might make it seem like that’s all there is when that’s not the case at all.

In between high-profile visits to tall towers and dangerous waterfalls, we eat, walk, work, drive, ride, and play. We wander the streets and hang out beside bay windows. We talk with friends and smile at strangers.

We live in the everyday, and I’d argue all of these otherwise trivial moments are every bit as meaningful to us as the big, spectacular ones are.

So in my world, they merit some photographic attention, too. In my world, we absolutely wax poetic about yellow shopping carts.

Because despite our having been conditioned to overlook the ordinary, it’s precisely these ordinary things that trigger the memories that make life that much richer.

We’ve shopped here with our son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter. We’ve made memories here. This place holds a tiny but important spot in our family’s collective memory.

And all it takes is a silly picture to trigger these and other memories.

Hardly seems ordinary at all, then, does it?

#dryden #ontario #canada #throwback #grocery #store #retail #yellow #shopping #carts #buggies #building #streetphotography #photography #canon #apple #iphone #shotoniphone #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded


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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Tree trunk texture

Years of texture
London, ON
February 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

In the dying light of a day that’s now been consigned to history, a maple tree pauses for its moment.

The scene, the one where light from afar paints a textured scene that is felt as much as it is seen, has been playing out night after night, for the 4 or 5 decades this tree has been growing here. And if all is right in the world, it’ll hopefully continue for many decades to come.

There’s no telling how many of these dying-light moments have been witnessed by passers-by, or how many simply played out silently ignored.

I’d like to think the tree left its own indelible mark on those who encountered it.

I’d like to think it had some kind of significance to others.

I’d also like to think it isn’t just trees that can imprint themselves on strangers.

I’d like to think we could all be a little more like the trees.

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Monday, February 19, 2024

Everything ends eventually

Make a wish for more
London, ON
February 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

On a day when a dear friend we’ve known since childhood says goodbye to her mom, it doesn’t feel right to share imagery that suggests happiness.

So we go with this. Where the day ends with the setting of the sun. Where angry clouds paint the sky in futile protest against what’s about to happen. Where the howling winds that shape this scene remind us how powerless we are to change much of anything.

I’m often reminded that as much as sunsets signify an ending, they also hold out hope for tomorrow. The sun will always rise again, we’re told.

But not for everyone.

If we’re lucky we’ll be able to greet the morning. But every night marks the last for some, and eventually we all run out of however many sunsets we were destined to have.

I have no answers to any of this, nor do I think any of us ever will. Or even should.

Time is a finite, precious resource for us all, and this is just as true when we’re watching the light fade over the horizon or listening to the cruel beat of earth on wood in a cemetery.

So we watch the brilliant sunsets, feel the howling winds, and rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Because missing all of this would somehow feel wasteful.

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Sunday, February 18, 2024

A peck of imperfectly perfect peppers

Mixed vegetables
London, ON
February 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Not everything - in the pepper section and in life - will always fit into neat little rows.

We’ll often have to contend with random messes along the way, or even spots, like here, where one spills over into the other.

And that’s perfectly fine.

I admit I was tempted, for a nanosecond or two, to clean this scene up a bit before I shot it. Someone had filled the bins to overflowing, and between the unpredictable forces of grocery store physics and neat-averse customers, the inevitable mixing along the edges seemed like an invitation to fix them.

Yet as I looked at the shades of red, yellow, and orange tumbling into one another, I realized the story that wanted to be told was one of randomness rather than perfection.

It also dawned on me that playing pick-up sticks with the produce wasn’t a good look, and everyone else would have been weirded out. Well, at least more than they usually are when I show up and start a spontaneous photo shoot.

So quick photography is okay, but touching everything in the interest of photographic symmetry is not. Got it.

Lessons aside, it felt somewhat freeing to grab a quick shot of messiness before the bread section beckoned.

Because things often break even when we wish they wouldn’t. Because we aren’t always fully in control.

And sometimes we just have to accept the way things are. Whether they’re vegetables or anything else.

#ldnont #london #ontario #canada #nofrills #grocery #store #fruit #fruitography #red #yellow #orange #peppers #color #texture #shopping #retail #random #stilllife #photography #apple #iphone #shotoniphone #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded


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Saturday, February 17, 2024

Fighting the coming frost

Exposed
London, ON
October 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Tiny shoots of green meet the first autumn frost, as if nobody told them to stay below the earth, where they’d be protected from the coming freeze.

It’s a nasty place, this forest floor, where life emerges, and ends, in a seemingly endless cycle that leaves little room for the weak.

Maybe it’ll thrive for a while. Or maybe it’ll shrivel into nothing. Maybe it’ll be remembered. Or not.

I suppose the template for all life is playing out by my feet on this chilly October morning in the nearby woods, lessons for the so-called real world being written in miniature for anyone willing to go for a walk and look down.

I’m alone in this quiet place, and I’m guessing most folks who come here aren’t looking for lessons from the forgettable green leaves fighting for life in the deep blue shadows.

Soon enough the snows will come, and none of this will matter. Or so we think.

All of this matters, whatever the season.

#ldnont #london #ontario #canada #medway #valley #heritage #forest #leaves #nature #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #stilllife #blue #frost #photography #nikon #nikonphotography #nikon_photography #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded

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Friday, February 16, 2024

The accidental sunset

If you wait a little...
London, ON
February 2024
This photo originally shared on Instagram

There’s a park not far from our house that I’ve been visiting more frequently of late.

As sunset approaches, I’ll watch the skies from the house to figure out whether or not it’ll be worth the walk over. It needs be partly cloudy, as full overcast hides the show, while a perfectly clear sky is just boring. Things get fun with just the right amount of cloud.

On this particular day, it looked promising when I left the house, But by the time I got to the park, the fast-moving clouds had given way to largely blue - and boring - skies.

I almost didn’t take the camera out of its bag, and took a few quick test shots with my phone in a lame attempt to convince myself I hadn’t completely wasted my time.

As I turned for home, something felt…off, as if a little voice was telling me to stay out there despite all the evidence that the shoot was destined to be an optical and meteorological washout. So I leaned against a nearby maple tree and listened to the winds.

As the sun disappeared below the tree line, tiny wisps of cloud appeared between the branches. The light shifted to an ethereal tone of gold. High overhead, jet planes left flowing contrails behind as they sped toward destinations unknown. The washout had become somewhat salvageable.

It wasn’t the best sunset I’d ever seen, but I’m slowly learning that “best” doesn’t matter as much as “at all”.

What DID matter? That I got out there. That I hung around a bit longer. That I tripped the shutter regardless of what played out in the sky on the other side of the glass.

As the light finally faded and I turned for home, I was strangely uninterested in what I had captured on the memory card. I was just glad I had taken the time.

This photography thing teaches me something new every time I pick up the camera. This time it was the fact that craft can matter more than outcome if we’re patient enough.

Next time? No idea, but I look forward to standing on the edge of the park before sunset so I can figure it out.

Maybe the clouds will show up. Maybe they won’t. Doesn’t really matter.

#ldnont #london #ontario #canada #sun #sunset #sky #tree #trees #cloud #clouds #cloudspotting #weather #wx #optimistpark #nature #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #photography #nikon #nikonphotography #nikon_photography #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

When winds paint the water

The shape of water
Boca Raton, FL
February 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

#OneYearAgoToday, the winds painted the water’s surface something ripply, so I leaned way down and tried to remember what it felt like in that fleeting moment.

#bocaraton #florida #vacation #throwback #travel #swim #swimming #hotel #pool #water #waves #pattern #geometry #abstract #blue #water #photography #canon #canonphotography #canon_photography #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded

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When neon goes dark

Light from the past
London, ON
October 2022
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Whenever I randomly come across a neon sign, I make a point of taking a photo. Even if it’s filthy.

It probably seems like an odd photo choice. After all, it’s just a sign, right? One of countless such objects all begging for our attention in our cynical marketing-fuelled modern existence. Meaning it normally wouldn’t be worthy of a second look, let alone a first.

But I see neon through a different lens, because as a technology it is fast disappearing from our midst. In fact, look at streetscape pics from decades ago up against otherwise identical views of the same scenes today and one thing becomes immediately apparent: there’s almost no neon left.

Once upon a time, artists crafted ethereally twisted tubes that then splashed stunning pools of light across the typical urban street. When the sun went down, the neon hummed to life and turned once-ordinary stretches of brick, concrete, and asphalt into magical playgrounds where lifelong memories were made.

Today? Plastic covers fluorescent. Or LED screens play marketing content that looks stunningly similar to the stuff we fast-forward through at home. None of it is memorable, and those pools of light are more washed out than magical. If memories are made here, they aren’t particularly warm or gauzy, and our future history won’t love them as much as our current history loves neon.

Of course the new technology is more efficient. It’s probably cheaper - no one has to bend the glass into uniquely sculpted visions in script - and I’m guessing it’s easier to maintain, too.

In other words, better.

But in the world of light, better isn’t always better.

So we remember what once was when it winks at us from the shadowy corners of an increasingly dusty streetscape that no longer comes alive after the sun sets.

#ldnont #london #ontario #canada #neon #glass #wongsgarden #restaurant #light #night #urban #street #photography #architecture #photography #apple #iphone #shotoniphone #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded

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