Hi Folks: At the end of July we did a two-day trip around the south end of the island, visiting places as various as the Sooke Potholes Regional Park, Fairy Lake, Cowichan Bay, Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park and the Coombs Country Market. Our favourite place on this visit was Lower Continue Reading →
Hi Folks: There’s an old adage that says ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’, and since we’re both writers and we’re both photographers, in a given month we can collect a lot of ‘words’. In June we shot nearly 600 images between the two of us, and choosing one Continue Reading →
Hi Folks: Things have been quiet around here of late; we’ll have to see what we can do about that! Our photo of the month for May is a tribute to Marcia’s dad’s sweet partner, Joyce. She slipped away quietly on Friday, May 30. In her own way she was Continue Reading →
Hi Folks: One of the (many) benefits of living in Victoria is that we have the beauty of Beacon Hill Park to enjoy year round. In addition to the many wildflowers, the wildlife, natural landscapes and gardens populated by flowers, shrubs and trees from around the world, the park is Continue Reading →
Hi Folks: It’s been a challenge to select a Photo of the Month for March… partly because together we made over 1500 images in March (admittedly many are for composites), but also because, in addition to Victoria’s colourful beauty this time of year (with the explosions of blossoms all over Continue Reading →
Hi Folks: Well, one of the (many) benefits of living on our Pacific island paradise is that spring comes earlier here than it does to the rest of Canada. As a promise of something yet to come for friends and relatives back east, in February we went out one day Continue Reading →
Hi Folks: In a fit of madness a couple of weeks ago, Marcia and I made a last minute decision to run away to Tofino for the weekend. We wrote more about that journey here: Eating Our Way Through… Tofino! We had a lovely, relaxing weekend with a lot of Continue Reading →
Hi Folks: At the end of July a friend of mine and I traveled slightly ‘up-island’ toward Duncan to visit the old stone ‘Butter Church’. It’s a church with a somewhat colourful history – built in the mid-19th-century by a Catholic priest, using Native workmen for the construction. The church Continue Reading →
Hi Folks: For this month’s Photo of the Month’ post I thought I’d combine a Lightroom tutorial as well. In the past we’d done blog posts on making diptychs and triptychs in Lightroom and on creating mirror images in Lightroom; this post combines both of those ideas. So, we’ll start Continue Reading →
Hi Folks: We’re featuring one of Marcia’s flower images as our ‘Photo of the Month’ for May. While Marcia doesn’t share Mike’s passion for f/stops, shutter speeds and the like, she has great fun making images with her Android-enabled cell phone camera. We both do. Almost all of our cell Continue Reading →
