By: The Philosophical Fish|31 January, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . photography
Sunday was spent cleaning up the garden and even though there are many things growing out there, there wasn’t anything photographically inspiring. My daffodils should be open in a few days, so then I’ll have something botanical to look at. In the meantime, I came across some wonderful photos using the creative aperture filters on a Lensbaby, something I haven’t…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|30 January, 2010|Categories: Monochromatic|Tags: photography
If memory serves, I probably picked this urchin test up somewhere out in Bamfield. It then sat in a planter for the next many years before being pulled out and set on this reflective piece of black acrylic inside a light box.
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|30 January, 2010|Categories: Monochromatic|Tags: photography . riding
I love my scooter, it gets me out on sunny days no matter the temperature. I think it was about minus 6 Celsius, but I didn’t care, it was sunny and gorgeous and I found things to make my camera happy….
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|30 January, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . fish . photography
It was a cruddy Saturday and so what better thing to do than visit the Vancouver Aquarium and spend some time in the Amazon. Beats hanging out in the drizzle. In 2004, just weeks after defencing my PhD thesis I had the good fortune to travel to Brazil for a conference and a subsequent boat trip up the Amazon above…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|29 January, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . photography . random
We bought this clock a number of years ago, it caught Kirk’s eye and we had a good laugh over it. It was inexpensive so it came home and has been a source of fun ever since. The human brain astounds me with its capacity to interpret. When we first bought this clock both of us would mix up the…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|29 January, 2010|Categories: Monochromatic|Tags: photography
There’s nothing like a good hunk of metal against a sky to call out for black and white processing… The Lion’s Gate Bridge separates the North Shore (North and West Vancouver) from downtown Vancouver. To me, when I cross it in a northern direction, it means home… Officially known as the First Narrows Bridge, the Lion’s Gate Bridge is a suspension…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|29 January, 2010|Categories: Monochromatic|Tags: photography
The venerable “they” say that the last human instinct is to look up. And yet, there are so many interesting things to see when we look up. I think we need to all look up more often. Up from our desks, up from the ground, up from the television, up from our own self absorption. Maybe if we looked up, even…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|29 January, 2010|Categories: Monochromatic|Tags: photography
For me there is an emotion to this scene, a sadness that something once hoped for was lost, a dream was destroyed. The Olympic games came to Greece in 2004, they left debt and broken dreams. I don’t know if this was from that time, I’m guessing it was. It looked like a dream someone had, a beachfront restaurant. Now…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|28 January, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . photography
The “Green” Olympics… Call me crazy, but I miss winter. The Olympics are a mere 15 days away and we haven’t a stitch of snow. The rain comes down and down and the freezing line is way, way up. Whistler is in fine shape for most of the outdoor events, but the local mountains are in a sad state with…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|26 January, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . pets . photography
Feeding Time at the Zoo — If there is one thing Loki loves (other than me) it’s food. Those radar dishes on the top of his head make it difficult to sneak a treat to Milo sometimes as even the slightest clink of his food dish or the cookie jar brings him flying from a dead sleep. View other Loki…
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