Photo of the Week 2026-03-02

 

Visiting family in Ottawa recently provided a number of opportunities to shoot in unfamiliar urban areas. A portion of a walk one afternoon took me through the Earth Sciences complex of Gov Can along Booth St. where I found the architecture interesting to photograph.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very utilitarian institutional in design aesthetic ... but at the same time interesting in it's straight lines and repeating patterns.

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2024-06-10

 

 It seems as though I've lived my life on the bad side of the moon ...

' bad side of the moon '

 This is my life, this is my life, this is my life, my life ...

 

With a nod to Elton John and Bernie Taupin for inspiration on the image title.

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2019-04-01

streetlight

Permission to take a step back ...

Things have changed up a bit here on the blog over that past few weeks. I've stepped away from shooting, at least for the purpose of having something current to post. Instead I've been looking through the image library, going back to projects uncompleted, to experiments with B&W processing techniques as illustrated in this week's image.

There is a purpose in this. Though I love being out with a camera shooting, not allowing myself to shoot builds excitement, passion, creative anticipation ... and I'm about to embark on a long awaited trip that includes a significant amount of photography to document a personal journey. I wanted to be fresh, excited, thirsting to get out with camera in hand.

It may be another week or two, but we'll see how successful this little experiment was in stoking the creative fires  ...

DJE

Photo of the Week 2018-02-19

Community events, ceremonies and celebrations present a great opportunities to photograph something different than might be the norm for me and for you. Having a camera along and ready allows me to capture images at any point of the event or pre/post event moments.

A recent visit to Ottawa while Winterlude 2018 was in it's last weekend, provided opportunity to visit the ice sculpture displays in Confederation Park on a chilly after dinner walk. From previous years, I knew it would be a great opportunity for some night photography with the displays colourfully lit and glowing in the dark.

This blocky ice structure lit from below caught my eye and beckoned for me to make this frigid abstract image ...

blocked

For those interested in the geeky bits, I was using my EOS M3 auto ISO (1600 for this image) a 18-55 mm lens shot at f/4 for 1/125 sec. So there's more than enough light to capture the glowing ice and if you step back or zoom out, you can keep the background dark with a little - exposure compensation to really isolate the sculptures.


DJE

Photo of the Week 2015-12-07

After some business meetings in Ottawa recently, I was out for a quick dinner and then over to the Parliament Buildings to see the first night of the annual light show for the Christmas Holidays. There were fireworks, a choir singing and the projection of Christmas scenes on the main building facade. We arrived a little late, and I was still able to get a few quick shots of Centre Block lit up in the festive spirit, but it was the smoke clearing from the fireworks display and the crowd pouring off Parliament Hill through the gates and onto Wellington with traffic still flowing that caught me photographer's eye. It looked more like crowds fleeing a fire than families who had come in the Christmas spirit to listen to the choir and see the lights.

Christmas Crowds

Here's what the light show looked like with the smoke clearing off in the night breeze.











DJE