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More shots from PEI. A few fine establishments where refreshment may be had. “‘A picture is what it is,’ [William Eggleston] says when I ask him why he no longer wishes to talk about individual photographs, ‘and I’ve never noticed … Continue reading
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Cavendish is quite lovely when there aren’t any people around. Still, you can’t ignore that people were here once. And they left warning signage to ward off the lawsuits.
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I figured I should get right at my resolution of taking more days to tool around the countryside alone chasing light, so today I did just that. I returned to PEI and was blessed with awesome constantly shifting weather. Heavy … Continue reading
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“I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention … Continue reading
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A couple of posts back I mentioned how I used to do a lot more bumbling about with the sole purpose of taking photos, and how I’d like to get back at it more often in 2012. These images are … Continue reading
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I’d like to do a more involved photographic study of hunters and hunting in New Brunswick some day. These antlers, donated by an honorable and dead buck, were on display in my grampie’s camp when I was growing up. These … Continue reading
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2011 is coming to it’s bitter end. For someone with as a heavy a natural tendency towards nostalgia as I, these opportunities for reflection tend to dig deep on my mental state. Some neat things happened in 2011, but I … Continue reading
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As some of you know, not only do I take photos, sometimes I play the role of photo rescuer. My collection is starting to get to a decent size, and this morning I scored a bunch of great old and … Continue reading
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I spend a lot of time in my own head. A lot of time wondering what it means to be a photographer. Wondering how other people ‘read’ photographs. How do I ‘read’ a photograph? There’s the commercial side of my … Continue reading
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One thing that’s unavoidable when you take any photo is this notion of the time when the photo was captured. Setting aside metadata and just thinking of an image, there are any number of ways to date a photo, not … Continue reading
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Here are some more images from my show up until the end of this week at the Cooling Rack Gallery on Union Street in Saint John. This is a series of 4 images called ‘Waking up is hard to do’.
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In the show at the Cooling Rack Gallery, a lot of people stop and look at this image, and they know it’s familiar, but they can’t place it. It’s flipped–a mirror image.
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The weird thing about this image is that there appears to be a light coming from where the hole is dug in the ground. But I don’t know what it is. I never placed a light there, so there must … Continue reading
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The partner to yesterday’s Pizza at Night image. You can see a lot of these Saint John photos on display at the Cooling Rack Gallery until December 9th.
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