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The ear and the scroll

I took this photo of Carrie holding her violin for me back in 2000, I think it was.  Its Type 55 film from Polaroid again, and sepia toned in Photoshop after scanning.  

Rushouse Poppies

A number of years ago (2002?), I hauled my old Graflex camera out west one Christmas to use up some Polaroid Type 55 pos/neg film. This was one of the photos I took out there in my mothers’ garden. I have always liked it.  

Charlie the Squirrel…

We have sort of acquired a squirrel, going by the name Charlie. Carrie and our friend Michael Colero found him on Queen Street West in Toronto, milling around on the sidewalk and running into traffic. He even ran into a store along there a couple of times. He seemed...

Some random images…

Here are some random images from my Aperture library…   Owen holds up a TRex to its former self at the ROM five years ago…     The House of Commons’ library from the rear last year.     My mum, getting all blushy from a lens...

Curly willow, the other day

Carrie came home with some curly willow a few days ago and after a shower in the afternoon, the light was quite lovely for it.                      ...

Antarctic images – Sir Ernest Shackleton….

In 2003, I was invited to travel to Ottawa a second time to review press tests for a series of posters Alex Taylor of Endurance Designs was producing of images taken during Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914.  I had prepped the...

Edward Tufte….

From The Washington Monthly:   “Edward Tufte occupies a revered and solitary place in the world of graphic design. Over the last three decades, he has become a kind of oracle in the growing field of data visualization—the practice of taking the sprawling,...