Photo of the Week 2025-09-15

Cameras go with me most places, and yes even on a golf trip to New Brunswick. An earlier trip offered more fall colour and I took time for more photography, visiting Grand Falls, and checking out other locations. This trip, nursing a back issue that had the potential to have me on the sidelines watching my golf buddies, I focused on a rehab regimen and shot very few images ...

 

' NB Camp Morning '

 ... and most of those were around the 'camp' (cottage to us back in Ontario) while I was shuffling about early in the mornings trying to get loose . One morning, after coffee I went for a stroll outside and noticed the sun streaming through an opening in the trees to warm the trunk of a tree. There was steam coming off the tree so I grabbed a camera and worked a composition to capture the scene.

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2018-02-05

footprints in paradise

Snow fell heavily at times this weekend at the cottage. It had already begun snowing by the time we arrived well after dark. The driveway was clear enough to be were able to get in, park, unload, and settle in to enjoy the fireplace as the cottage warmed up ... leaving the snow clearing until the morning.

Morning light arrived the next day bringing more snow. Falling steadily, straight down, with not a whisper of wind, a blanket of peacefulness was covering everything around by the time I had donned my gear and leashed Murphy for the morning ritual. Stepping out into the crisp still air, we took a deep breath (actually Murphy peed) and set out down the road to see what was about ...

DJE

Photo of the Week 2015-08-31

It was a busy weekend ... 

In addition to spending some time at the cottage tearing down a shed, my younger son Jordan and I finished off with a sightseeing flight over the Bruce Peninsula. We had planned to take the flight on Saturday but weather conditions were bad. They improved on Sunday so we packed up and headed to Owen Sound for a 3:00 take-off.

There was more haze than I would have liked for photography, but the views were breathtaking as we crossed the peninsula to Sauble Beach then made our way up the Huron coast over our cottage on Hay Bay, on past Tobermory and down the Georgian Bay side.

I found photography from the plane quite difficult with window glare, reflections and the atmospheric haze but managed to get a decent image of a section of the north shore of Hay Bay that where our cottage is (lower right).

  
We made several passes over this location and each time we came around into position, we ran into turbulence that made shooting near impossible. I have several better compositions that are far too blurry from camera (plane) shake.

Clouds moving in also cast shadows over some parts of the scene just when we made these passes. Still, I'm quite pleased with the image above and will likely frame one for the cottage wall.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2014-11-03

I got away to the cottage for a night to take care of a couple of things I wanted to get done in case the snow arrived early. One of those things was getting the snowblower that I had serviced in Ferndale. I made this trip solo to have room in the vehicle to pick it up on the way.

Tobermory and the cottage is a quiet place once Labour Day weekend is over, even more so after Thanksgiving has come and gone. This trip it was beyond quiet, with Lynn and Murphy at home, it was just me, alone with my thoughts.

On Sunday morning, those thoughts turned to the Photo of the Week and "what was I going to choose this week?" I poured another coffee and went to sit by the window in my favourite chair to give it some thought. After a while my mind wandered off ...

 
... and when it came back, I decided to try and capture what had just happened in an image.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2013-08-26

In Celebration ... a new chapter begins.
 
On Aug 22, Lynn and I took possession of the cottage in Tobermory and what could have been more appropriate than to celebrate with a dram or two of Tobermory (1798 Isle of Mull) Single Malt. It's not what I would normally reach for, but hey with that name, it was entirely right for this occasion.

Late in the evening under clear skies with the sun low on the horizon and sunset colour beginning to intensify, I grabbed the bottle, glass and camera then headed to the chairs down by the shore on the rock. I poured myself a wee dram, placed the glass and bottle on the table ...

... then using sunset as a backdrop and back-light for both the bottle and glass, I made a few exposures before sitting back to celebrate our first sunset in Tobermory.

The Celebration ...

Here are a few others from the first night, of the first weekend ... of many more :-)

DJE