November 2008

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october surprise

october surprise

I know it’s November but being a political junkie, I couldn’t resist titling this posting “october surprise” and it is not totally off the mark. To the left is a photo I took at the UBC Botantical Gardens last month (that would be the October part). When I took this series of autumn maples, I [...]

abstract thinking

abstract thinking

That morning there was a beautiful sunrise but with no landscape in sight I fired off a few shots of the aircraft and then I started to play around with different points of view. What I landed up with was a group of abstract images based on colour. These types of images don’t appeal to [...]

life is like a box of chocolates

life is like a box of chocolates

Words of wisdom from Forrest Gump! The whole quote from the 1994 Oscar winning movie is actually “Mama always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get”. Tom Hanks might as well have been talking about photography as I found out during our trip to Le Cordon Bleu [...]