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Peterson Lake, Manitoba

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In July, 2013 we were fortunate to travel to Manitoba to vacation with our friends David and Kathy at their cottage on Peterson Lake, north-east of Flin Flon. The cottage is remote, to say the least. Starting from Cranberry Portage, we traveled approximately one hour by boat through the Cranberry Lakes to a portage on Third Cranberry Lake, then another hour by 4×4 vehicles through the bush on the abandoned Snow Lake railway embankment and what I would optimistically call a moose trail, and then finally unloaded everything into fishing […]

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Hostas

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My neighbour, Marg, has an absolutely wonderful garden in her back yard that she tends with the utmost dedication. One of her favorite plants are hostas, and she has a considerable variety: light green, dark green, blue-green, yellow-green, variegated, plain, you name it. Hostas make an interesting abstract pattern. I experimented with some images in my own backyard recently, simply using my iPad and post-processing the images using Google Snapseed, which my son Ryan suggested. A quick transfer to my laptop via Dropbox, and then to the website, and voila

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Commonwealth War Cemetery, Yokohama

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Few Canadians realize that Canada played a role, albeit a small one, in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War. In the summer of 1941, Britain asked Canada to provide reinforcements for the garrison at Hong Kong (until 1997 a British colony) and, in addition to a small complement of service troops, Ottawa sent two infantry battalions: the Royal Rifles of Canada, whose men came largely from the Eastern Townships, Quebec City, Gaspe and Northern New Brunswick, and the Winnipeg Grenadiers from Winnipeg. All together, approximately 2000 Canadian soldiers

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Joy

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Canon Elan 7 with Sigma 24-70mm, with yellow #8 filter, using Kodak TMY 400 film developed with Ilford 2000. Exposure unknown. Printed on Ilford FB Warmtone glossy developed with Ilford Multigrade developer. Toned with Kodak Selenium toner 1:9 for 3 minutes. Famous French photographer Robert Doisneau, whose 2011 wall calendar graces my office, is often quoted as saying “If I knew how to make a perfect photograph, I’d do it every time”. I have certainly taken my share of poorly-constructed, ill-composed, out-of-focus photographs. During the 2004 Waterloo Busker Carnival I

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Notre Dame – Paris

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This past September I attended a Dagstuhl workshop on Robust Query Processing, and chose to fly in and out of Paris rather than Frankfurt. On the weekends bookending the workshop I stayed at the Select Hotel in St. Germain, across the street from the famous Sorbonne. Luckily, the University was open to the public that weekend for tours and photographs, and I certainly took my share while I was there. For the trip I took my Manfrotto tripod, my favourite Mamiya C330S with 55mm, 105mm, 135mm, and 180mm lenses and

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