Shadows in late afternoon on a perfect Northern Ontario cold day.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Bus Shelter II
Last March this Bus Shelter attracted my attention.
Yesterday I made another photograph of it covered in snow. Just for fun I applied some different filters to produce this result.
Northern Ontario art?
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Entrance
The side entrance to Trinity United Church.
A nice combination of rectangles, curves and colours.
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Snowmobile Trail
This trail leaves the Portage Hotel parking lot and heads north.
The season is somewhat late this year as warm temperatures have delayed the freezing of lakes and swamps. Snow is in the forecast and soon there should be lots of machines moving up the trail.
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Processing
Silverpixel has posted a pair of photos (one of which has disappeared) in the past couple of days that were processed using an app on his iPad. They were really neat.
This got me interested in a filter plug-in from the same company for my computer (I am iPadless). I have been having a good deal of fun playing with the trial version that I downloaded.
There is of course, little point in using exotic filters on pictures unless they add something – a mood , a feeling, the appropriate punch…- to the photograph. That’s where the “art” comes in.
I published some photos recently of the aftermath of the disasterous fire on Main Street.
Here is another photograph processed two diferent ways using the software.
Here is the original for comparison:
Worthwhile?
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Lunch Break?
Come back later.
We won’t be here!
(Why the quotation marks? Do they really mean it? Just kidding?…)
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No Customers Today
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Flowers
No matter what one’s mood, the colour, delicacy and cheer provided by a flower seems to brighten it up.
We keep them around the house for that reason, I suppose.
In the dark cold days of January they are a particular bright spot and a reminder of warmer days to come.
Or maybe we just like them.
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Disaster
Two nights ago the Cochrane Block, built in 1911 on North Bay’s Main Street, burned.
Two businesses occupied this building. Lefebvre’s Sports on this end and Vested Interest in the back of the building which opens onto McIntyre Street. Both businesses suffered devastating fire damage.
It seems that old buildings in downtowns everywhere suffer the same fate on a regular basis. It is always heart-rending when they do.
The pain lasts forever.
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Pine Grosbeak
We put up the bird feeder about two weeks ago and have seen the usual chickadees and nuthatches. We have also had a partridge come by occasionally. Yesterday this fellow showed up:
In spring the evening grosbeaks come by. This is the first Pine Grosbeak that I can recall seeing although we are well within its winter range.
It was about -25C and he was fluffed up to about double his size to keep warm.
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Cold Morning Relief
It is -25C outside.
To ease the pain, a little thought from Summer:
Be warm for a moment!
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A Bit More Winter
Quiet places allow the snow to stick to branches and remarkable delicacy results.
When it happens, it’s magical!
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