Our camera club has a photo rally ( type of scavenger hunt) that I signed up for - this was our team photo from 2013. The last time I went was 2016. I will show some of my pictures that I take that day
One of the slide shows coming this month
never sure what I will post this month unless we have gone away somewhere. I was thinking that April is the ugliest month but our magnolia does bloom
one of the slide shows this month will be from our trip to Venice. Others continue the theme of our house and the Town of Montreal West
On the collage front I am just uploading books to my Adobe page. Remember if you have the link to my file that links to all the publications - you never have to update to get all the latest projects.
The blog will document our road trip to Florida as well as my week re-visiting my March 2009 photo journeys.
My weekly slideshows are continuing with the Venice, Montreal West and the home front scenes.
In 2025 I am posting one weeks worth of blog posts from 2009 another year further back from before I had a blog ( in 2024 I went back to 2020) I was still working and photographing around my office in those days.
This is the house in Montreal West I have lived in since I bought my first digital camera. In 2025 I will be looking at the various transformations in the rooms over the course of the years in my slideshows.
JANUARY UPDATE
We visited the Catskills and New York City which gives anyone a number of images to take and use
On the slideshow front I have been living at the same house in Montreal West for the whole time I have been photographing digitally and consequently I have accumulated numerous images from around the house and the town. So a lot of the themes for 2025 will come from these locations.
I am still collaging but I don’t want to put too much on my blog so I will just be being uploading more books to my adobe dashboard - if you go to the publications page of the website there are links to all the books.
Of course there will be a lot about the Christmas season as it is December
The slide shows will have a heavy emphasis on Montreal West and the house that I live in there.
The blog will talk about my getting ready for and some past experiences with my yearly sale in Montreal West
Included in the month’s slideshows will be one showing my wife enjoying the Biennale in Venice.
Predicting that the month will be mostly observations from our Venice trip.
I will start posting my various points of interest from the Town of Montreal West
Not planning too much for September but expect to be using photos from our cottage walks.
For my Flickr one minute slideshows I have been working with photos from over the years on the different aspects of our home like the front yard or the various rooms in the house.
I expect that there will be a post or two from St Denis sur Richelieu where we have been visiting a guide friend for more than ten years - a photo of their view from 2009
The game plan is to have more or less nature slide shows this month
My monthly project is going through all my printed photos from the last 20 or so years and throwing out most and seeing what to do with the others.
My Monthly flashback to 2010 will be about our trip to the Maritimes
One of the slideshows will be in keeping of the travel theme
The collage project I am working on is British Barristers being coupled with Art Deco illustrations on a background of Frans Lanting photographs
We visited my sister in the Catskills and it is always a good place for me to take some photos
One of my weekly slideshows on my Flickr page will use the flashback to 2010 theme of Paris
Working on my collection of Montreal West images - possibly for a book, but for my ammual sale in Novemebr in any case.
The flashback to 2010 will be our trip to London
On e of the slideshows will be a novel method of grouping - every image in the show will have the same file number
I found as earlier copy of Gardner Through the Ages that I hope to use for my analysis of how the image Dejeuner sur l’herbe has been written about changes with every edition.
It will be a snowy month on the blog - finally had a nice snowfall and went out photographing. I am also continuing re-visiting 2010 the year before i started my blog.
The first slideshow in the same vein - one fence from the Covid years
and I even did a snow themed collage book
The blog will show photographs of our recent trip to Fort Lauderdale plus my revisiting of March 2010
One slideshow I am planning in Flora in Paris, but I am finding it hard to predict which shows I will make.
For my monthly PDF book I am going back to an early project where I was using my old Esquire magazines..
I am presently trying to catch up rather than create new work (but it is always more fun to do new than revisit the old)
I haven’t been taking that many pictures lately so on the blog I have decided to mine my 2010 photos - the year before I started my daily blog - what I looked like in 2010
When we are at our three season cottage I often go on a photo walk to the highway - I will make a few collections for my one minute slideshows that I post on Flickr (hopefully)
and in honour of the Henry Moore / Georgia O’Keeffe show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts I will upload a book of my collages that used Georgia O’Keeffe’s images as backgrounds for shoes from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection.
BLOG Not sure how it will be affected by my scanning of my family’s old albums that I am scanning - I hadn’t seen in thirty years it seems - but not too many pictures - one of the few when I had long hair.
Usually I have some done already and can predict the monthly topic - may stick with our Patagonia Holiday from years past
I updated my links to publications pdf and added five books that I had done lately. I plan to upload short projects on a more frequent basis in the new year
on the blog I expect to continue with photos from Portugal and then it will be back home most likely with some winter scenes
I will be having architecture as my theme for the slideshows for the month
for a book project I am trying to be very optimistic so that on December 31st I will upload the pdf version of the year’s blog posts
The blog will concentrate mostly on our recent trip to Portugal where we learnt that during the dictatorship one could only talk of the three Fs - Football, Fado and pictured above Fatima.
The slideshows theme will be people (or maybe some shadows as well)
I always am optimistic in posting a collage book during the month - game plan now is to upload shorter ones
Most likely the blog will all be about local happenings and colour at the cottage
Slideshows will have a nature theme
I am working on compiling all my homage blog posts over the years into a book - here I was giving tribute to Caspar David Friedrich
On the blog I will share some Paris photos that for some reason never got into my Lightroom catalog
for my weekly slideshows I am going through my catalog for topics that I have enough images to create a show
My book project is where I tamed Nature’s Chaos by placing beautiful fashion models into the surroundings