At 55° S, at the southern end of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, on the north edge of the Drake Passage on the strait between South America and Antarctica … the Horn is perhaps the most dangerous ship passage in the world. A Word a Week: Remote Continue reading Cape Horn
“Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.” – W. Eugene Smith Weekly photo challenge is: Threshold Continue reading Visual Quotations 51: Threshold
This is the third challenge in about as many weeks that has led me back to my photos of the Beagle Channel at the southern tip of Argentina. This will remain as one of the grandest mornings of my life. The Beagle Channel at Ushuaia, Argentina The Weekly Photo Challenge is: Grand, with a Wow! factor This entry, for me, really had the WOW factor: … Continue reading GRANDeur
An active sky can add movement and colour and drama to a photograph … and sometimes skies ARE the photograph, as the landscape pales in comparison to the dance of light and cloud that is happening above. This one taken in Normandy added such beauty to our autoroute drive.
Driving the Cape Breton Trail in Nova Scotia we saw some beautiful turbulent skies, this one at 4 Mile Beach at Aspey Bay.
While my daughter and husband sat up front chattering I was busy in the back snapping shots through the window at 100 km/hr of some tremendous skies over Alberta. Continue reading “Liquid mountains of the sky”
“There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.” – Nelson Mandela Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote is: Direction Continue reading Visual Quotation 35: Direction
None of us had expected the city that greeted us. My own vision of Santiago had been of an industrial city, unkempt, tired and worn at the edges with obvious poverty, pollution and crime. That was not what greeted us.
We found a beautiful urban area of wide boulevards, modern architecture and tree-lined avenues – grand mature trees providing beauty and shade. In the Providencia district where we stayed, every few blocks we encountered a park bench, always out of the sun, streets lined with beautiful gated homes, and broad sidewalks in good repair … Continue reading “Santiago, by design”
… blue ice of the Italia Glacier as it flows into the Beagle Channel at the southern tip of South America …
… also the Beagle Channel, the melt flowing from the Romanche Glacier, forming a lace-like picture of a lady sitting on the rocks …
… the ebb and flow of the tide at St Michael’s Mount in the English Channel … tide’s out …
Gates at 2431 Avenida Rivadavia in Buenos Aires.
Ornate gates at Circulo Militar in Plaza San Martin, Buenos Aires … Continue reading “Barred Access”
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, “At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.” – Claude Pepper
“With faith the size of a mustard seed, you can indeed move a mountain, but you can hardly be expected to garnish your sandwich.” ― Jarod Kintz, Author
“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!” – William Butler Yeats
I took this shot through the store window, capturing the reflections from across this street in Montevideo, Uruguay. Windows Week 3 over at The Day After Related photo: Urban Uruguay Continue reading Last Tango
When reviewing my photos I’ve taken to converting them to black and white, often with pleasing results. Even with landscapes where one is often captivated by the colours spread before our lens, conversion to black and white simplifies the composition and sometimes reveals dynamics within the shot that went unnoticed in the riot of colour. Instead of being bedazzled by the colours, the eye sees the values within the shot. It’s the habit of many painters to view their paintings in black and white to determine balance within the painting, by judging the values. With abrupt or frequent value changes a b/w Continue reading “It’s all there in Black and White”
When something catches my photographic eye I often like to go right in and fill the frame with whatever it is that has sparked my interest. I find that what might be an otherwise ho-hum photo is often more interesting and has more impact when massed to the edges of the frame. Ailsa’s travel theme is: Multiples Continue reading Framing the shot
Ailsa’s travel theme this week is: Circles so here are a few photos I’ve taken a-round … Continue reading “Doing Rounds”
For Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Couples I posted some photos of penguins. These fellows are just so engaging I need to post some more. We saw these Magellanic penguins at Otway Sound in southern Chile and, as I said, they build burrows in the sand – not the first material that comes to mind for penguin habitats.
Burrow Boulevard …
Mr. and Mrs. Pen Guin burrow shopping …(photos courtesy of my sister) Continue reading “Burrow Shopping”
We were coming to the end of our stay in Buenos Aires and didn’t want to later say, “We didn’t know THAT was there!” or “I didn’t know we were that close to THAT” or “I wish we had …” … so we took a tour. Through the streets of Buenos Aires … Additional photos can be seen at Beyond the Brush Photography Below are … Continue reading The Cook’s Tour of Buenos Aires
Not the usual setting one might expect for penguins. I never thought of sand and rock; I always thought snow and ice. I learned that penguins, at least these Magellanic penguins, Continue reading “They Come in Pairs”
An oft heard rule of photography is to keep the sun behind you. But then we wouldn’t get shots like these and sometimes the best shot is the silhouette Three silhouettes – Continue reading “The Old Gum Tree”
In the woods … Fall in the Gatineau in Ontario, Canada …
In our parks … Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada … Continue reading “The Beauty of Trees”
Friday, September 21 was International Day of Peace … if only we could Continue reading “International Day of Peace”
Beyond the Brush 