British Columbia, Canada, July *1989*

Just noticed that I hadn't posted anything for today, so I slipped this in now:

Blast from the past, 21 years ago, a mountain bike trip with a good friend from Jasper to Sidney, BC. Scans from b/w negatives - not perfect, but not too bad either. 3 weeks of sunshine interrupted by only 1 stretch of rain lasting about 2 hours

Canada & Georgia

I stand corrected, the last of yesterday's shots was Pshavi, not Khevsureti. Today:

Terry relaxing on a camping trip, Miette, BC, Canada

Dewdrop on leaf

Ice doing cool things, Mtskheta, Georgia (the old capital, from c. 500 BC-500 AD)

Carson Lake, Alberta, Canada, September 2005

More from that beautiful camping weekend. The weather was all that I could have asked for as a photographer.

Carson Lake, Alberta, Canada, September 2005

Back to "home base" in the UK for now, where I have lots more past images to draw on for the blog. Here are some from a magical weekend with family camping a few years ago, with more to follow. Early morning mist, reflections, loon calling hauntingly - I couldn't ask for more. Part of my post-scanning work with these included experimenting with the colours, which I allowed to stray from a purely natural look for interest, though not into the realm of the impossible.

Special congratulations to the visitor from country number 80 to the blog a few days ago: Taiwan.

My most important photograph so far

A blast from my past.

When I was 11 years old, newly returned from Rhodesia to Canada, my family took a camping vacation from Thunder Bay, ON all the way to Vancouver Island, BC on the West coast, a long journey and a spectaular holiday.
There, I was given the opportunity to shoot a roll of film on a Kodak Instamatic camera of my parents'. The rest is certainly history. I'm not sure if that particular 126 roll of film still exists somewhere in Canada, but this is the only surviving frame from it that I'm aware of. 2 prints were made: a 4x4" and a framed 16x20" in my parents' house. I recently scanned the small print here in Georgia at 2400 dpi and cleaned it up; here is a copy of it full-frame, my earliest photograph, thus priceless to me.

Stream, Victoria, BC, Canada, September 2006

A diversion from Georgia for a bit.

Details of a small stream in a park, near where I was staying with an old friend for a few days, en route to Zimbabwe. The colours reflected in the water were what interested me the most, as well as playing with slower shutter speeds to attempt to blur the water as it flowed.

Relaaaax, Miette, BC, Canada, June 2006

Put your feet up,
chill out
and
just
BE.

Pilgrimage, Lac Ste Anne, Alberta, Canada, July 2006

Every summer this large lake holds an enormous Catholic pilgrimage, mostly attended by natives, who come in thousands. There are processions, church services and lake baptisms, and the permanent church there has a wall of crutches discarded after healings. I was there for one of the evenings, and then raced back to another part of the lake as I saw the sunset developing.

Canoeist, Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, July 2006

Just a nice sunset jaunt on the lake.