by thadmin | Mar 18, 2014 | Beauty, Joy, Travel
by thadmin | Mar 16, 2014 | Beauty, Joy, Travel
Here are some photos shot the day before yesterday. While it certainly doesn’t look like it, these images were taken during Cyclone Lucy, down at Piha beach about an hour’s drive from...
by thadmin | Mar 13, 2014 | Beauty, Navel, Rant, Travel
So I have returned to New Zealand. To be honest, I never thought I would ever return. Certainly not through lack of desire, but rather lack of means was my assumption. But I must never forget the generosity of family, and so it is through the good graces of my...
by thadmin | Feb 7, 2014 | Historical
Recently, a pal of mine (hi Gary!) gave me a small packet of old BW negs and what look like contact sheets of some of them. It is a “Hold-Pat Snapshots” album, without evidence of prior ownership or provenance. I think Gary said he picked them up as a flea...
by thadmin | Dec 6, 2013 | Beauty, Historical, love
I just posted some more new scans of old illustrations. This time from Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark: Agnes Lickfold was my maternal...
by thadmin | Nov 22, 2013 | Beauty, Historical
While sorting some stuff in the basement I came across four old glass plate negatives that I picked up along the way here and there as a photo student at Ryerson lo’ these many years ago. So I scanned them in. After each image I have included a close up of the...
by thadmin | Sep 14, 2013 | La Di Da
I just posted some more scans from beautiful illustrations in old books. First, an sample scan of an illustration from ‘Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights’ – Everyman Library, edited by Ernest Rhys. Published by J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, London,...
by thadmin | Sep 6, 2013 | Art
by thadmin | Aug 30, 2013 | Beauty, Nature, Travel
I decided to cut things short the day before yesterday. I asked my uncle in Montreal if I might stop by for a night on my way home and he graciously agreed. He and Marilyn are such great people. I love them dearly and cannot think of any family with whom I’d...
by thadmin | Aug 30, 2013 | Beauty, Historical, Nature
Day 1 in Vermont was…two days ago? Three days ago? I was without WiFi for at least a couple of days and have sort of lost track of a few things. Funny how tied I’ve become to time while being able to access services online. The spectre of “what to...
