The main intersection in Alderdale.
Traffic lights are unnecessary so far.
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Summer Garden
If Spring’s not coming,…
… to heck with it! I’m going to do summer anyway.
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Curves & Rocks
A photo from Voyageur times perhaps?
Portage Park Trout Lake.
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Late Fall One Mile Bay
Yesterday morning at the end of One Mile Bay, Trout Lake.
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Quiet Creek
My daughter and her family have a lovely “waterfront” property near Rochester, NY. Last week I spent some time “fishing” for photographs on her waterfront.
Here is the colour version of one “keeper”:
I also got to fooling around with monochrome and made the following two versions:
Straight Black and White –
Toned Version –
Not sure which one I like better.
I think I’m leaning toward the colour version, but…
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Pond Black and White
The monastary pond at Nipissing University.
Calm quiet morning.
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Monastic Pond
There is a pond at the old monastary, now part of Nipissing University.
On a calm morning it is quite tranquil. The greens of spring are just appearing.
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Winter Bush
The bush near our place is a very pleasant place to be these days.
Quiet, tranquil and cold enough to make one aware.
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Birch Grove
A small birch grove near our place.
A bit of winter calm before spring arrives.
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Ice Shack
It’s winter and we fish just about anywhere there’s ice.
Except in the arena or the curling club of course.
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Afternoon Shadows
Shadows in late afternoon on a perfect Northern Ontario cold day.
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Rural Landscape
I visited the Kindardine area this past summer and made several photographs.
The land near Lake Huron south of the town is very flat and has been farmed for generations. It yields views which are reduced to few elements and go for a long way, almost to infinity.
Over the years we have become inured to what ought to be in a rural landscape photograph or painting and this one fits the “rules” and we feel comfortable with it.
This is what it really looks like:
There is a great deal of discussion in the area about the visual impact on the landscape of the giant wind turbines that have been built over the past five or so years. “Stop the Wind Farm” signs are a regular sight on mailboxes and fenceposts.
In the past and currently, the presence of hydro (telephone) poles in this photograph would be quite acceptable. I suppose that is because we have become used to seeing them in photographs and in our everyday viewing of the landscape. The addition of windmills to such a scene these days is visually disturbing to some (many) who, one supposes, were comfortable with the traditional view from this spot and see them as visual blight.
Of course a painter can just leave them out and we would be none the wiser.
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Pine Grove
This grove of pines is found on the walking trails at Laurentian Ski Club.
The grove offers a place of quiet meditation in the midst of a busy city.
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