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Conversation with other creatives is inspiring and rejuvenating, a great way to rekindle the fire and often providing a shot in the creative arm.
So it was recently when a friend dropped in for a visit while in my 'neck of the woods'. She brought along a couple of her travelling companions and we spent an evening reconnecting, getting acquainted and sharing thoughts on a number of subjects, some artistic. At one point, my friend brought up the subject of this blog and was very complimentary regarding my writing (thanks Sheila) and I admitted to her that some of my recent posts were getting short on writing content and I felt I was getting lazy with my posts..
While this blog is mainly about showcasing my photography, it is also a journal of sorts, a collection of thoughts and experiences from my journey, Our conversation reminded me of this and comments by some who have enjoyed my ramblings. It's been good for me to, so it's time to put time back into the writing aspect for those followers and for me. Those who just want to see my images, well they can just look and don't have to read.
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This past week I decided to spend some time up north at the cottage by myself, something I'd been looking forward to as the "retirement chapter" of my life opens. Up there It's always easy to slide into a easy pace, even more so I wonderfully found with weekend or vacation confines no longer whispering in the margins.
When fog rolled into the bay in front of the cottage the scene changed constantly, from light mist diffusing the view to the far shore, to a thick fog curtain, sun, then no sun. After watching throughout the latter part of the day and after dinner, I decided to head into the village for the evening arrival of the Chi Cheemaun anticipating I might catch it arriving through a fog bank and that I did, staying until it departed again ... but I found myself compelled to stay even further, to watch and continue photographing as the sun dropped lower and lower behind the bank of fog ... this ended up being the most creatively satisfying part of the shoot.
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| day into night |
Moving along the shore, looking out over the water as the light, colours and reflections morphed as the sun dropped further and further, I shot wide then tight, I framed landscape and then portrait. Always seeking that magical combination and finally I found it, something different that I had initially set out to capture but more.
In retrospect, I am again reminded that the act of getting out to shoot, more often than not, leads from one vision to another and takes me further on this journey.
DJE
A selection of images from my trip to Guatemala last month ... starting off with this cheeky one of a local street dog in Antigua Guatemala.
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| Around Every Corner |
Click here and link to an online gallery of select images from the trip if you are interested in looking at more.
DJE
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| quiescence |
Listen,
silence,
absolute silence,
quiescence of thought
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Floating on the calm evening water of Hay Bay, you can wrap yourself in a soft blanket of calm. When conditions are just so, the horizon softens, near blends into far, water mirrors sky and you lose yourself in glorious, sublime quiescence.
DJE
It's a good thing when I have images from the past 3 weeks not yet posted and trouble deciding what to pick for my Photo of the Week ...
... so let's go with the most recent (and if you follow me on social media, you'll see some of the others as I get to posting).
From Sunday's visit to the Niagara area to see dear friends and spend some time together ...
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| Niagara River Whitewater |
I knew I was going to like this image as soon as I came across the scene. Framed by the trees on either side and the shore, top and bottom, the Niagara River rages at the bottom of the gorge on it's way to the whirlpool. I found it hard to do justice to the beauty and power of nature in a still photograph, but this captured the scene at this point quite well ... just imagine the sound of Class 6 rapids 10 metres deep.
DJE
So much to see and photograph in Guatemala, but with only a week with my son, I wanted to enjoy the time with him rater than spending all the time looking through the viewfinder ...
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| Antigua in the AM |
... that said, I did take a camera suitable for packing light in a single carry-on sized backpack that was my luggage for the week.
6 AM waiting for the shuttle bus to pick us up outside the hostel and take us to Pacaya for our volcano hike, I pulled out the P&S camera to capture some of the local street ... and of course a lone figure walked by as if on queue.
Another vintage / textured treatment for this one ... it's how it felt to me.
DJE
