What’s the Difference?
Damir and I recently volunteered for a video project with my talented photographer friend Rannie (who also did my headshots) for SXSW called 20 x 2. We just sat on the couch, he did all the work. 20 x 2 : What’s The Difference? from photojunkie on Vimeo. Rannie was looking for 10 straight and [...]
World Press Photo winners on display
The World Press Photo exhibit is on display in the atrium of Brookfield Place (formerly BCE Place) in downtown Toronto until October 24th. I checked it out today and it’s magnificent. It’s free, and open from 7am-10pm. Since these are photographs, the exhibit is going on in several cities at the same time, and is [...]
Still life and landscape photos
For those of you who may have enjoyed my Flickr photos from Provence, Florence and Venice, you probably noticed that they were taken by my very talented photographer friend Pat — she didn’t have a Flickr Pro account at the time that we took the trip, so allowed me to post them on my account. [...]
I went to Austin…
…and all I got was this photo credit. I’m having a lot of fun watching how my Flickr photos pop up in different places around the web.
Photo gig #2. Also unpaid.
Okay, so I’m not a professional photographer, and most of the time I shoot with a pocket-sized Canon. But someone liked my geese photos, and now someone likes my shots of Deerfield Beach pier in Florida.
My first professional photo gig
Okay, I didn’t get paid for it, so maybe it’s not really professional, but the author of a driver’s education course in California saw my photos of geese crossing the road (taken early one Saturday morning in eastern Toronto) and asked to include them as illustrations for the course. She just sent me a draft [...]
Hard to ignore that global warming thing goin’ on
NASA’s Earth Observatory issues a weekly newsletter with links to the most interesting satellite photos of the week. This week, one of them showed how a piece of Greenland that was previously thought to be a peninsula was revealed as an island due to the melting ice cap. You can subscribe to their weekly newsletter [...]
Interested in cypress knees? Look no further
In Austin earlier this year, I went for a walk by the river and saw some really interesting cypress knees, the part of the root of the cypress tree that extends above the ground/waterline. These don’t grow this far north, and I’ve always been fascinated by the structure. Last week, I received a request via [...]
Getting shot by Rannie
Rannie (a.k.a. photojunkie), a talented local photographer who I met through the TorCamp community, came over on Friday to shoot me. Photos, that is. I need a real headshot for my blogs and various speaking engagements coming up, rather than the current shot that was taken while on vacation in Murano. I scrubbed the obvious [...]
Cool Photoshop stuff
I’m not a Photoshop user, but my friend Pat is an amazing hand at it, having won at least one Worth1000 competition with her creations. Of course, she’s a technical writer for Alias (now part of Autodesk) and has been using some pretty amazing graphics software for years, which probably gives her a leg up. [...]
