Project 40

Well, it's official. Today I turn the big four-oh. For my birthday, Nannette is sending me off for a photo weekend this Saturday and Sunday. I will be heading of to Parrsboro - Upper Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia area with my pal Shannon, who incidently was present for my 20th birthday. The next series of photo posts will be from what He has dubbed "Project 40". Keeping my fingers crossed for some good spring weather.

Cape Enrage V: Wide view

This image from the Cape Enrage trip I saw as more of a wide view. It is processed as a "split-tone" black and white.

Cape Enrage IV: Surf Sequence Redux

I revisted the sequence images and thought I would sandwich them together into one image. It almost feels like a surf x-ray to me.

Photo PocketMod from Lightroom

This is a Photoshop Lightroom project to make a photo PocketMod with any 8 photos using the Lightroom print Module along with a PDF print driver such as cutePDF and the PDF to PocketMod generator found at pocketmod.com . What's a pocketmod you say? well it's a nifty customizable booklet that is made with one cut and a series of folds using one sheet of paper.

This method should also work in many other organizing applications that allow printing of multiple files, such as Picasa or PS Elements.

Cape Enrage III: Surf Sequence

Cape Enrage II: Choices

I have been revisiting and editing the images for the past few nights and with this particular pair of images I keep going back and forth whether to go with colour or black and white. In the end, I just like them both and that's O.K.

Cape Enrage I

Unfortunately the Stoke the Fire retreat was cancelled, but I still took the opportunity to have a small photo retreat on Saturday with my pal Shannon. We took a drive out to Cape Enrage on the Fundy coast. The weather was the warmest it had been in a few weeks and the light was fantastic.
I am still editing this work and more images will follow in future posts.

eWaste

Greenpeace has recently launched a campaign called greenmyapple. Currently Apple sits at the bottom of the list of companies on the Green electronics guide. Check out where your brand sits. The guide is updated every three months.

Greenpeace's disclaimer: Our 'Guide to Greener Electronics' aims to clean up the electronics sector and get manufacturers to take responsibility for the full life cycle of their products, including the electronic waste that their products generate. The guide does not rank companies on labour standards, energy use or any other issues, but recognises that these are important in the production and use of electronics products.

All you need is love...

"Apple has settled a decades-long trademark dispute with the Beatles' company, Apple Corps, over who owns the rights to the name and logo, in a deal that could pave the way for band's songs to be available to download legally for the first time."

Read article here

Seeking warmth

I sit here trying to stay warm on a very chilly January day and thinking of warmer times.

On a July family weekend at Fundy National Park, Isabelle and I sat among patch of ferns near McLaren Pond in the sun letting it warm our open hands. We did this in hopes that the warmth of our sun baked palms would attract the dragonflies flying around us.

After a few minutes with our hands open and my camera at the ready, we were rewarded for our patience. A couple landed on Isabelle's arm and this one landed on my palm.

Stunning website

Singapore based designer Johnathan Yuen's portfolio site is jaw-dropping. He believes it is an honest and worthy cause "To touch someone's heart with design."

This site is beautiful, complex, simple, playful and clever. What more can I say, it's well worth the visit.

one tip: hover over the red plus signs and click on the red triangles.

Stoke the Fire!

Happy new year! Want to stoke the creative fire this February? Join Margot Metcalfe, Silver Frith and Me at the Tatamagouche Centre February 7-11, Wed. 7pm - Sun. 1pm for Stoke the Fire! Keeping Warm with Photography. This program is 2 days longer that than weekend events we have held (and offering again this Oct.) and allows us to explore our photographic seeing further.