JULY UPDATE

No real photo excursions planned so expect the blog to be primarily images from our cottage with assorted diversions.

I will be a little erratic in the slideshows this month as I like to post every day but we are often away at some point during the week and the whole system of one new slideshow every Tuesday with six reworked ones does not seem to be working. Plan is to use light and then do travel and something else if possible.

Even though my daughter would prefer that I don’t touch the images within the book The Most Beautiful Flowers by Pierre J. Redoute, I couldn’t resist when she wasn’t around at the cottage to stop me

JUNE UPDATE

We are visiting my sister in the Catskills for my brother-in-law's birthday party and I expect that I will take some pictures there to post on the blog

In the slideshows this month will start with architectural portrait orientation shows, followed by series of slideshows that highlight one object and then on to animals.

On the collage front this month I married oriental carpets with portraits by Modigliani.

MAY UPDATE

On the blog there should be some images of our Diefenbunker show in Ottawa and our visit to Florida

In the slideshows this month we will use different modes of transportation, a bit of detritus, and some people shows.

I have a number of Linda Rutenberg photographic book in my collection and when I see another copy at the thrift shop I cannot resist as they also make great books to collage into. In May I worked on a copy of her Gaspe book and added vintage cars to the locations.

APRIL UPDATE

We just got back from Paris and finally having taken photos from somewhere else, and consequently there are a lot of posts this month from there

On the Flickr Slideshow 2.0 front - There will be statues and people

I finally will have to finish my gold collages as they are needed by the end of the month for a show

March Update

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Revisiting Guadeloupe on the blog, after a week of showing some of the collage projects I have been working on

This month’s slideshows will include architecture in portrait mode, objects in square format and variations on the tree theme.

in my collage work I sidetracked to do some Adam and Eve’s getting expelled into the harsh world of fine art photography

FEBRUARY UPDATE

My blog relying heavily on a couple of local walks - too bad I am no longer that interested in thrown out couches

On the slideshow front I have been reworking my Valentine’s slideshows for one of the weekly series - up next walls

on the collage front - I just finished a book project where I covered certain texts with floral still lifes and added a painted woman into the orchid photographs

January Update

My daily blog relied heavily on one walk I took during a snowstorm

On the homefront I continued my documentation of our Christmas ornaments

Among the topics on the daily Flickr update of slideshows was driving and what gets driven on

the Lightroom plug in that is giving me a new way to look at / arrange my images in the catalog

my latest collage project - a book on New York buildings combined with statues

December Update

We went to our three season cottage to take stuff home that shouldn’t be left there over the winter

Other topics for my daily blog came from our family visit to Illumi

My daily slideshows accumulated all my Christmas slideshows over the years to make my own 12 days of Christmas

My current collage project is about copies and their inexactitude in reproduction

November Update

My annual sale after missing last year due to Covid

my blog main event was a grunge walk with the Lakeshore Camera Club

on the homefront our niece found an old photo album of ours at her parent’s place so I scanned our 1997 family pictures

continuing my upgrading of my slideshows that I post daily on Flickr - each week I have a theme - one of those in November was colours.

October Update

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and a month of colours - here you will see a panorama at our cottage if you click on the image

Status Update September

my latest collage project is using a Linda Rutenberg book again - I am putting African and Oceanic sculptures into her English gardens at night. - both images have such nice directional light

and on the blog - continuing with images from trip to and from Renaissance and the cottage

Status Update Month of August

Living with a full plate, I have once again let updating my website falter. A lot of the individual tabs get updated automatically , but one may not see that when landing here. So another stab at a synopsis.

The big event so far is August 13th blog post of my 100th slide show updated to what I am calling 2.0

For my Camera Club I am working on a short presentation to be given in September on photographing in the suburbs - and using my trusty stock of couch images to illustrate how wherever you are is the best place to photograph

without any travel lately, my daily blog has been a hodge podge of my walks in the country, to my local thrift shop, some other walks down memory lane and other local sightings. I call this image “Lying down on the job”

in my collage work I am adding the images of Hungarian costumes into a local photographer’s book

Status Update Week of July 1

In Flickr I have continued my Slideshows 2.0 where I have been updating all my slideshows to certain criteria, one being all exactly one minute long. At some point I intend to make a pdf that will link to all the slideshows, but like everything else I seem to not make enough time. This week’s theme is Square slideshows with each day representing a different type

Architecture is the day’s theme

I uploaded my 2019 book of all my blogposts from 2019 that you can download and look at your leisure

on my daily blog just using things that i see on my walks - cannot wait to travel. The image above wasn’t used but I like that it is a circle and that nature is claiming back its territory

Late as Usual - but getting closer to getting organized

My latest collage uploaded collage project where two worlds of make believe join forces

Two additional images of water reflections from the walk that I featured on my Google blog recently.

Well into my updating of slideshows on Flickr - Day 31 and even more water.

Still Haven't Quite Figured Out Schedule

A New Collage publication just posted. Seems I have that system working- now just to make this weekly blog post routine

SLIDESHOWS 2.0

The reason I had trouble was I started a big project of reworking all my 500 Flickr slideshows to make them consistent, including that they will all have my logo, be one minute long and if possible have the same size images, and in some cases update the post-processing to be more in line with my aesthetics of today. I have been trying to figure how to create a summary and so far on day 12 don’t have one yet

One of the twelve posted so far - the tab Flickr will bring you to the sight to view them

BLOG, INSTAGRAM ETC

Photos of our magnolia tree and those taken while going for walks with my sister and brother-in-law have been what I have been populating Instagram and my regular blog and even our Camera Club site

The theme was Bokeh

Having Quite Set Which Day of the Week to Post

I have just uploaded another collage book which you can find on links to publications - certainly a less that five minute read

My blog for the week has been concentrating on the images I have been finding as I keyword my Lightroom Catalog. I have nine categories and did a post of two square images on most, but not the category Sculpture - here are two

From Mexico City

from Richmond Virginia

In my Camera Club this week I somehow came in the top ten with the following image from Florida

the subject was patterns - I thought all three images I submitted were equivalents but hte other two scored near the bottom - I put one below

Montreal winter road

and finally I was asked to create a subject for our club’s weekly challenge and posted a few images as inspiration for the topic signage

God Bless America

This Property is not for Sale - taken in Kenya

Week Two of Experiment

My blog this week is being populated with the discoveries I have been making going through the 25,000 images that I had never bothered to keyword. So far I have gone through about three thousand and most likely will give up soon. I used to compare photographs to golf shots, as I was so surprised how golfers seem to remember their shots from years ago, as do photographers. But, I see there are many photos I don’t remember taking.

With this new system I decided that I need also to make sure I post at least one image a week on Instagram and this week I chose one from a series I made playing around with tulip petals on our kitchen table that had been painted by my artist sister-in-law Andrea Blanar. Here is a sample of the series

and lastly I put up another collage book onto my Adobe Publish Online Site

The project combines images from The Great American Pin-Up book and places them within The Art of Muscle and contrasts the artificial body shapes created either by the pen or by steroids, posing the question “Which is more real?”

Talking about my Google blog

This week has a few posts about my unsuccessful photo walk outings, but could make four posts out of fifteen images - Here are two I didn’t show

I started with myself within the tree shadows as my first picture

I have been taking a photo of any Budweiser can I come across for a few years, but lately have started a series where I will take a photo of the beer can if I can read the whole brand name after it has been crushed - two of those are on my blogger - which has a link from my web page.