a foggy day in littleton

Tropical pine needles

Overlook

Inverness, Scotland

I have something of an obsession with Canada geese...

They are one of the few things I like about winter.

Sunshine is my quest. ~ Winston Churchill

* colouring not changed in these -- the sky was really those colours!

hodgepodge

Various photos that I've saved to my desktop with the intention to post here eventually... I just know one of these days I am going to post a photo twice. Maybe even now? :P

London, England

Montreal, Canada

Osterley Park, London, England

Oh, just Littleton (like the 1st). :)

photography thoughts

I think I'm in a bit of a rut with photography. I don't know where I'm going with it -- I enjoy taking pictures, it's probably my favourite pastime, but I'd like to do something more with it. But what? I'm not sure. I've been thinking about making cards with my pictures on them and selling them on Etsy. Or just selling prints alone. Maybe taking a class? I'm not sure, but something else that makes me feel like I'm not just taking picture after picture and not doing anything with it. Hmm. Hopefully I can actually get myself moving and actually do something about this.

Carrick Island, Northern Ireland

Glasgow, Scotland

my sunshine

Mabel

I really love Mabel.

2009

The first and last pictures I took in 2009...

1 january 2009, 5:30pm

31 december 2009, 4:57pm

birds that fly too fast

By next summer I would like to figure out how to capture birds better. They are too fast. I need to learn how to operate my camera in a way that can capture them immediately. Or I need to get camouflaged clothing and stalk them. Probably both.

Swallows?

Great blue heron

Always avoiding me

Gulls

fields of sunrise

winter

'Tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air it breathes!

- William Wordsworth

goldeneye

Warmer days past

I remember taking this and thinking it was getting chilly out. Now this picture looks warm! I guess temperature is all relative. This 30 degrees is practically summer compared with our current negative temperatures.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city...

(Quote from Christopher Plummer, and it is sort of taken out of context...hehe.)

GEESE!

I'll have to remember to post a photo of Mabel next.

You can see it in their eyes

Another evil-looking gull...

(ring-billed gull)

An Túr Solais

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

- Jonathan Swift

Monument of Light

Dublin, Ireland

and death's dark shadows put to flight

- from O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Enya's version is lovely (Thanks Keety!)