Standing Stones From Around the World
I’ve been racking my brains for a topic that starts with S. At first the only thing I came up with was ‘Sketches of Stones’ but then I thought Stonehenge, […]
Category Archives: Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
A Photographic Journey, 1973-1979
I had started my art college photography course with an ancient bellows camera but was soon coveting the other students’ substantially more advanced cameras. On a student budget it took […]
A Photographic Journey, 1972
This wondrous Kodak is the camera I used for my first real travel experience – a trip to Denmark in 1965. You can read about that experience which includes my first […]
2020 Photos in Review
Let’s face it, I have been somewhat of a Grinch this Christmas. All over the internet everyone was writing ‘Merry Christmas’ and I was thinking “What’s so merry about it?” […]
Searching for Wabi-Sabi in Japan
Tina of the Lens-Artists Challenge introduced me to a completely new word/concept this week: Wabi-sabi, the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection. When I thought back to the times […]
Mission Hill Winery in West Kelowna, BC’s Okanogan
Now. I just finished reading the novel Crush by Jennifer Margaret Fraser, described as a wine thriller. I found it in the little free library on Granville Island near me, my […]
Meandering Around the Murals of Main Street in Vancouver
Lately I’ve been walking around Vancouver’s neighbourhoods checking out the murals. Plus any other oddball thing that catches my attention. I made my way down Broadway past the old Bow […]
Exploring Symmetry
The latest Lens-Artists Challenge is ‘Symmetry’ and so I have been looking at it with a new eye, and finding it everywhere! Vertical Symmetry Here the axis runs vertically through […]
Tracking Down Photos with Negative Spaces
When I first looked for photos with negative spaces in them the only ones I noticed were all silhouettes. This is my second attempt, this time with non-silhouettes. Big negative […]
Interaction of Positive and Negative Space in Malaysian Silhouettes
When I’m working on a painting I’m constantly thinking about the interactions between positive and negative space. With my photos not so much… In fact, as I go through my […]
