Second Attempt Today

I tried this as soon as I arrived home this morning and gave up in frustration. During the long interval when I wasn't posting photos Blogspot must have made some changes to how they load and how to edit in html. Text won't flow properly; pictures disappear..... arrggghhhh!!!!

Time for another look at Wordpress.....

So, I'll go the easier softer way and save myself some aggravation. Aaahhhh!, all better now.

Shot #1 was taken outside the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and shows some funky sculptures of their resident snowmen. That is the Skydome in the background; home of the Blue Jays.

Shot #2 is an old L-shaped house that was being used as a car sales lot. It was situated at a small but busy intersection in an area undergoing rapid development. The house has since been torn down to make way for the intersection reconstruction and expansion. That evening threatened severe weather and at that point looked like we could get a tornado. I thought the shot had good strong graphic qualities; dark and angular.

Shot #3 - I shot this specifically to be a screensaver fo my phone. I liked the various colours of the stone work, the random shapes, and the textures. Most of the shapes are angular and square-ish except that one at right centre.

Shot #4 - This was back when Jupiter and Venus were very closely aligned and as steady as I could hold my hand it still shows squiggly movement. If it hadn't been for the beautiful flare effect from the streetlight I likely would have deleted it.

Shaken and Blurred

One thing about carrying a cell phone is that I'm glad to be able to get a visual record of things I happen to see, that make me go, 'ooo, gotta grab a shot of that.' Of course, on the downside is that in snatching a quick shot I don't often care a whole lot about what the quality of the final image will be when taking it. These, I bet, are all one-handed shots where I didn't think to try and steady myself while hitting the shutter button.... and I don't dislike the results.


Iridescent cellophane backer for bulletin boards ( and perhaps fancy wrapping paper).

My daughter's cat peering out a steamy kitchen window (Vancouver).

Rays of sunshine splayed across a pool table. One of my outings with young Arlo; the problem foster teen.

Swirling embers from a trash can bonfire on Canada Day '08.

I'm all for nice crisp, detailed photos but departures from the norm are okay by me, too.

Cell Photos

On a shopping trip today I picked up a multi format card reader so I could upload and save my cell pictures to the computer. Here is a little test to see how they will display....


A high thin layer of cloud holds the colour of the setting sun while an underlayer of scattered cloud provides some contrast.

Before the sun had fully set it backlit these clouds highlighting the fluffy scalloped edges.

I managed to catch the swirl effect happening to these clouds when I thought a funnel cloud might drop at any time. Thankfully it didn't.

More to come later... ** they look about as good as they did on the screen on my cell. **