Back in the early spring, my wife and I decided to go on a vacation… without the kids. Sort of a 13th wedding anniversary present to ourselves. There was much debate on where to go within our budget. Everywhere from Europe to the Caribbean was on the table. We wanted to go somewhere and actually…
Wait. What? Easter??? Yes. You read that correctly. Let me explain. I don’t shoot a lot of colour film. It costs money to send it to get processed or if I do it myself, I do it once a year. Colour film chemistry has a shorter shelf life than black and white, so I stockpile…
Several weeks ago, my friends Paul and Mike and I met up in Cambridge for a photo walk with the film podcasting group Classic Camera Revival. The walk was focused on the streets around the Grand River and ended at The Black Badger pub for some lunch. As the crew disbanded after lunch, Paul and I…
Long ago, we had scheduled a family camping trip to Algonquin Park for the Labour Day long weekend in September. As the date came for us to leave, our cat got a bladder infection and was taken to the vet. He needed to be given medicine twice a day, so my wife stayed at home…
The Peterborough jail opened in 1842 and operated until 2001 where it sat vacant for 14 years before being demolished and turned into an urban park. The park still has remnants form the jail with plaques describing what the jail and was like and about the types of inmates that were housed there. It’s a…
Who doesn’t love Ottawa? One of my favourite Canadian cities to visit. I seem to end up back here at least once per year. This past August I joined my brother who was in town for a conference and while he was stuck inside I wandered and biked around town with my camera. I re-visited…
Hogs Back Falls is a place that I’ve been eyeing up for sometime now, but for whatever reason I could never make it there. This time, I was determined to go and check it out. Upon arriving in Ottawa, I hopped on my bike and pedaled the 45 minutes or so along the Rideau Canal…
Back in mid-August, I spent a couple days in Ottawa freeloading off my brother who was there for a conference (more on that in a later post). On the way to Ottawa, I stopped in downtown Perth for some lunch at a Mexican restaurant on the river. I spent a little bit of time walking…
Back in August, we took the family to the Toronto Zoo. We used to have a membership here until life just got too busy. This was our first time back in about 4 years. We spent the entire day checking out all the exhibits we could before jumping on the Zoomobile for a couple laps.…
Growing up, I never once remember having my photo taken on the first day of school. My parents always left that up to the pros during picture day later into the school calendar. Look on the socials the other day, and it is nothing but back to school photos. I’m not a fan of posting…
A couple weeks back our camera club headed down to Millennium Park in Peterborough to do some shooting. I work right beside the park and take (almost) daily strolls through it, so I wasn’t really up for any photography. These are places and things I’ve seen every day for 15 years, so nothing really jumped…
This is a spot I’ve wanted to photograph for a while, but had no idea how to access it. It’s a portion of the Otonabee River south of a dam, where the water levels fluctuate depending on how open the dam is. Two weeks ago, our camera club visited this location when there was minimal…
