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One Beautiful Baby
My dear friend Kristin (of 10 years now) and her partner Bob have great genes and together made one gorgeous kid – Lauren. Two-years old and full of energy, she was the perfect subject to hone my photographic skills. We started early Saturday morning with breakfast at the Howard Avenue Diner. Lauren was pumped! Jumping, […]
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Over the past three days, Tom and I planted our first veggie garden and I’m beaming! Admittedly, Tom did most of the grunt work, digging up the patch, shoveling in the dirt, lugging the bags of dirt and peat moss. I did most of the delegating – “This should go there”, “Nope, it should be […]
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A Courageous Journey
I’ve recently absconded this photo from my parent’s home. It’s black and white, an odd size, somewhere between an 8X10 and 5X7. I’ve seen the photo more than a dozen times during the course of my life, stuck to the back of one of the many albums my parents keep with family vacations and grade […]
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It’s all in the Packaging
It’s hard to get away from it… the plethora of plastic and cardboard that helps to merchandise our ‘stuff’. Wasn’t there a time when items for sale were just placed on shelves with a little handwritten price tag tied on with twine? Now, everything is encased in a molded polypropylene and corrogated cardboard coccoon that […]
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a few candids
From the same wedding anniversary shoot I did in my last post, these are a few pics that I adore – they weren’t posed and the subjects were relaxed and unaware that I was shooting while they were immersed in the joy of their youngest grandchild. I would fill an album with these sorts of […]
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first paid photography gig
The title of this post isn’t entirely true. I get paid to do photography (copywriting, etc.) for my day job, but this, this is what I love. People pics. Portraiture. Some of my favourites Annie Lebowitz and Yousuf Karsh. Local talents like our old friend Michael Pavlov, which we’ve regrettably lost touch with, did a […]
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about me
I’ve started a few blogs before, but they tended to be too specific and I lost interest quickly. At one point I wanted to do a food blog, but my expertise in the field fell short. I’m just a good eater – not a chef or even a mediocre cook. Plus having to commit to […]
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