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Wandering the Sackville River

To cap off the long weekend we went for a drive. There were many things that we had to get finished around the house, so there was no planning made for the weekend. Once we finished up the important things, I packed the kids into the car and asked them …

Dramatic Cranes

We took a walk around Point Pleasant Park yesterday, and the lighting was perfect. Lots of dramatic clouds and filtered light.

Would recommend.

:wq

Macro and testing 5:4

I have started thinking that square is getting old, only because its hard to print them, so I'm thinking about giving 5:4 a try. 8x10 is a nice size for printing photos, although I have a 4x6 printer, and that is the default ratio of the camera.

I don't …

Its now full Autumn in NS

Its full on Autumn here in Halifax. You could start to feel the change in the air early last week, but yesterday it was like the change was complete.

In a few weeks the leaves will start to change colour, and hopefully we get a lot of evening rain so …

More Weekend Wandering

We stayed close to home again this weekend, but still got out for a quick adventure.

Saturday we went to the Halifax Commons Pool, the best piece of public infrastructure added in a long time, and spent a little more than an hour in the water.

Sunday I wanted to …

All Over Again

Four years on and I still think that no one really gets that our response to the pandemic is a root cause to a lot of the "there aren't enough workers" calls in so many industries, this is especially the case for professions that are women led, like teaching, nursing …

Halifax Winter

I'm still, still, working on a workflow that doesn't include lightroom, but does include editing RAW files. For most of last year I have been only editing the JPEG files using the default windows editor and that's it.

That works fine, but most of the time the results were, meh …

Rubbernecking and wandering

Yesterday afternoon I had a need to get out of the house. It has been a grinding couple of weeks, and the historic rainfall that happened last friday resulted in a minor studio flood. Nothing like was experienced by a lot of other people around the province, but enough to …