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Another crappy garage in the hood. I feel like it’s the Ottawa equivalent of a shanty town, I half expect to see corrugated metal sheets housing orphans and some Christian aid spokesperson asking me to put “starvin marvin” through school. Though usually I only see kids smoking pot and dog shit.
Generally, I have been unimpressed with Ottawa Graffiti – in my neighbourhood at least.
Thanks friends for sending Mel your support yesterday! Even though you may not know me, or her, the sentiment is truly appreciated – AWESOME!! The weekend here in Ottawa, and most of Ontario, looks like it’s going to be incredible – so I hope to get a good chance to take the camera out on […]
Mel’s back at work in the morning, after over a year on maternity and sick leave, I’m sure the walk to the bus stop is solemn and depressing. I wish I could be there for her, but it’s not quite like taking your kid to school – I do have the feeling that she’ll buck-up […]
The park’s still technically closed, but that doesn’t stop people from playing around in the reservoir left behind by the snow runoff – which is kinda nasty – but hey, who am I to ruin a good time?
Tina’s awesome. She’s nearly always happy (as far as I can see) world travelled, nice and tall, and has her own catch-phrase. “Are you kidding me!?”
I’m finding these underpasses fascinating – though I’m not sure if anyone else out there is, lemme know what you think in the comments and if this is boring, I may just change direction a bit sooner. I walk to work every day, but one of the best things about my course is that there […]
I’m still getting some feedback from the “name that photo” contest from a few days ago, so I’ll likely leave it open for the weekend. If you want to share your thoughts about which one you like best (I’m going for the more simple titles) feel free to follow me on twitter. Otherwise have a […]
Sterling’s got his PHD AND is single. I know there’s a high ratio of women to men in Ottawa – so who’s lookin? He also looks a bit like Neil Patrick Harris but like his character Barney on “How I met your Mother” – AWESOME.
Things get really quiet in Ottawa when the sun goes down.
I had the privilege to attend one of the cooler high-end fund-raisers I have been to: Fight for the Cure. Despite owning a, technically, “sports” camera, I’ve never actually gone and shot any with it. So I volunteered and took many many photos – most of which didn’t even come close to turning out. I […]
If you normally read this blog through a feed reader like Google Reader, maybe you can do me a solid a click-through to the site and hit the link I have at the top for the photoblog awards – and then vote for me.You will have to sign up for an account, which I promise […]
I liked the lines.
According to google analytics, not everyone who reads this blog is from Canada – so you may not know what a Beavertail is. Honestly they’re nothing crazy good; HOWEVER, if you are freezing your ass off in Ottawa in the winter, namely on the Canal, then they are god-sent warmth in the form of sugar […]
Didn’t do too much this weekend; Mel’s Grandmother passed away so we chilled and tried to do the things that would please her most, though very little could. I did jump at the chance to walk up to Dow’s Lake and check out Winterlude.I forget, sometimes, that I don’t live where I used to and […]
Why close a park in the winter? I understand if you’re not going to maintain the paths and you’ll just “let snow fall” but is it dangerous? Should I close my front lawn too? What lives under the snow in Ottawa that we don’t know about?
The picture LOOKS crooked, but it’s not. The house is.
Okay, so this post is a bit of a geek-out for you Lightroom users. I grabbed some Polaroid-ish presets over at the hub Presetsheaven.com but A Polaroid isn’t a Polaroid without that distinctive white border. I went looking for that and found some free samples here. Then it was just a matter of cropping the […]
I thought today would be the perfect day for me to go out and try and take some snowy-snowflake photos! WRONG! I can’t shoot for shit – it was just this side of too dark in Ottawa so, though I pumped my ISO, I started to drop my aperture creating too shallow a dof for […]
Obviously the second in my series of archive dug outs – and thematically also one at Dow’s Lake – maybe I’ll call these “Dows Docks”. Anyways, I wonder if, when Quinn gets older, I’ll be that lame dad who tells jokes that maybe people “get” but just aren’t funny. Actually, maybe I’m already that kinda […]
Instead of taking my time off to go outside, see the world, and take all those photos I complain about never taking, I spent all of yesterday watching the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings back-to-back. “I’d give anything for a whiff of old toby…”
Sorry if you’re reading this in a feed – hopefully I haven’t blown your reader up. I wanted to show this shot WIDE because of all the great detail: A jogger running along the Rideau Canal, a couple out for a stroll, two people talking, one having laid down his bike and, dead-centre, a girl […]
There’s a transit strike on in Ottawa right now, and while it doesn’t affect me directly (I’m fortunate enough to be able to walk to work) it certainly has had it’s impact on the city. Commerce is down, people aren’t shopping at the mall, and the roads are congested all day. I actually walked by […]
I am totally going to print this up and sell it as a limited print full of mood and moodiness and title it “Dows Mist” to moody EMO parents.
