The Juno Awards, Canada’s evening of issuing honours for musical achievement, are ON RIGHT NOW. I’m excited. I am also using the occasion to throw a few photos up here from the past few years of Canadian artists whose concerts I went to. Between watching the Junos and reliving all these concerts through photos… well …
[Requisite beach shot] Holguín, Cuba. 14 March 2013.
Once upon a time I had a job merchandising magazines. It was a dirty job. As in, it literally left my hands covered in a layer of black ink and dust and dirt from the truck that delivered them in bundles to the store. It was also rather depressing employment. Here’s why: [click the cc on …
who? It is not even a good metaphor. It’s just pretty. Continue reading »
Week two. Did I mention that I’m quite terrible at New Year’s Resolutions? I took this photo ages ago, during the time I had set for myself and everything. I just forgot to post it /slash/ forgot I had a Resolution at all. The topic: hands. And there’s an actual hand in it, so that’s … Continue reading »
A parliament* of Great Grey owls has taken up residence in my neighbourhood. Well, sort of. More outside my ‘hood… where all the trees and fields are. So my dad and I snowshoe-ed in to try our luck at finding one. We found three! I learned that birders are intense. One guy was wearing full … Continue reading »
This is my first, late, strange looking contribution to my own New Year’s Resolution. I asked my brother what he thought of the photo. He asked if it was a lion. Well it’s not a lion. It’s a road. And I do have a very good explanation for how this candy-coloured picture of Ottawa’s Spark … Continue reading »
Photos from 27 November, 2012 in Qrendi, Malta. Continue reading »
Or, Pedaling Without a Cause. Biking in Malta is in many ways a painful experience. Level ground is rare, pot holes are more prevalent than asphalt, navigating a rural “road” is really closer to off-roading, and drivers have a way of rattling your wits with their cars’ proximity to your pedal-powered aluminium. I brought my own helmet but if … Continue reading »
The first challenge word of the “52 project” (which is what I’m calling this weekly photo assignment new year’s resolution thing) comes to us from the CRC Handbook of Chromatography: Carbohydrates Volume II[1]. I’ll confess it took me a few tries to randomly point at an actual word. I kept hitting charts full of numbers … Continue reading »
