Photo of the Week 2018-01-08

There are times when this blog almost writes itself. And then there are times when if fights being written at all ...

It is the same with making images. There are times when the images almost make themselves, times when there is little or no effort required in selecting a location, grabbing a camera and going out to enjoy the process of creating images. Then there are times when the creative spirit fights to stay bottled up, times lacking the motivation to pick a subject or location and just go, make some images ...

With this weeks blog to be written, motivation to get out and photograph lacking, finding inspiration and a trip through the archive seemed the only answer.

a tree over a canal

Even though I may not make images every day, or even every week, seldom if ever a week goes by when I don't browse images online in magazines or in books on photography. So while I "wasn't feeling it" this past weekend, I was watching my social media stream and an image from Venice by another photographer caught my attention.

The canal scene reminded me of images I had made during a trip several years ago and instead of getting out to make some new images, I chose to use the time to work on one from the archive. Initially I set out to emulate the look of the photo from the media stream. Eventually that gave way to exploring my own vision, my own creativity, and a much different result ... a very satisfying experience.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2018-01-01

First Light 2018 - HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Another year, another 'First Light Challenge'. For this, THE 10th YEAR, I decided to stay a little closer to home (in this case the cottage) with coffee close at hand and the idea of creating a 360* panorama of the New Year Dawn scene that greeted me at first sunrise of 2018.

First Light 2018

The tradition, one that a dear friend kindly invited me to join him in 10 years ago, remains unbroken. An online chat with him early this morning bolstered my resolve to continue beyond this year despite ebbing enthusiasm for an early rise, to leave the warmth and indoor comfort, on the crisp cold morning of each new year, in the search for 'First Light'.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. John Greenleaf Whittier
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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. John Greenleaf Whittier
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"Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young."

John Greenleaf Whittier

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. John Greenleaf Whittier
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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. John Greenleaf Whittier
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Best Wishes to all for Health and Happiness throughout 2018

DJE

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

A Visit from St. Nicholas ...

... not a creature was stirring ... and it's 7:30 am !

DJE

Photo of the Week 2017-12-18 MERRY CHRISTMAS !

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

Wishing all of my followers the very best for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Keep Well and Stay Safe.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2017-12-11

Clark Family Christmas 2017

the silly version

It's been several years now that I've been photographing the Clark Family Christmas gathering, held this year at Bill & Cathy's in Scarborough. This year with 'ugly" Christmas sweaters and Christmas hats and head-wear, everyone eagerly anticipated photo time :-)

Usually they won't cooperate or stop chatting and fidgeting long enough to look at the camera all at the same time. This year was a fair bit better and I pulled off another Masterpiece ... well almost ;-)

Here's the serious version ...

You can see the timelapse assembled from some of the individual images I captured just to get a couple of good ones here ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dje-pix/38081463495

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year ! 

DJE