I have been drawn to photography since I was a child and I’ve been taking pictures (albeit very bad pictures) since as a child I was given that very first Kodak Instamatic camera and Flipflashes that would follow. While I still have the pictures taken with that camera (pictures more interesting for being anthropological remnants of a disposable era than for their composition or quality), I like to think I’ve come a long way since then. Like so many of my life journey’s, we have to start somewhere …. and this journey is only but half complete.
And if life is a journey, then photography is for me a journey into the process of creation. In that moment when my shutter clicks from open to close and open, I capture moments, ideas, expressions, and observations. It feeds my aesthetic out there, in the world — in that physicality outside my own physical being — there lies beauty in all things: in nature, the animals with which we share its custodianship, art, architecture, people and places. There is humour and there is oddness. There is colour and there is shape; there is light and there is darkness. There is history and there is place … and there is time. And, in all of it, there is life.
In some ways, then, there is a natural connection between what I “shoot” and what I “write” about … and while the inspiration and even the lens may be the same, the expression — and therefore the perspective — can differ. Therefore, don’t be surprised to see poetry draped all over my photos often and #PhotoPoem on Twitter.
Weekly Photo Challenge Series
Emergence
Partners
Tangerine Sky
Future’s Curve
Layers
Bones of Earth
Admiration
Wood Cuts
Botanical Fires
Diner or Dinner?
Future Seen
Harmony
Standing on a Beaver Dam
Redemption
Alight
Lady of Gold
My Every State of Mind
Gravity’s Pull
Possessing Loss
Retreat
Seasons Come and Seasons Go
Art Made Real
Forever is a Time
Optimism
Frozen Promise
Standing on a Cliff
Danger
Love Upon the Sand
A Wall Remembers
Iron Shore
Changing Shield
Monochrome Net
Study in Cork and Rope
Frosted Green
Baby Sea
Destination Love
Our World’s Slow Change
Held in My Heart
Connected
A Good Day
Creepy
Marching Two by Two
Inspiration
Tidal Peaks
Betwixt Day & Night
Study in Seaweed
Cast Away
Amazing Grace
First Cycle
Eye Spy
Preserving the Peace
Taking Flight
Off Season
My Muse
Broken Earth
Vividly Blue
On the Way
Force of Nature
Emotion in Motion
Floating Dragon
Spring Blur
Wall of Light and Colour
Crystal Heart
Beside You
Symmetry’s Scimitar
Depth of Falls
Winters Capital
Frozen in Time
Tails of Ice
Arrested Fruit
Silver Sky
Ice Rose
Frozen Needles
New
Study in Yellow No. 6
Study in Yellow No. 5
Study in Yellow No. 3
Study in Yellow No. 2
Study in Yellow No. 1
Twinkle Splash of Light
Convergence 2
Pull Me In
Dreamy
a study in fall
Million Bells at Night
Endurance
Nocturnal Grasses
Humanity – The Artist
Adventure ~ Take My Hand
DialogueNo2
Dialogue_No1
Perched
Enduring Bloom
DialogueNo3 ~ Through the Mist
Frayed
Playing in the Shadows
Bonded
Relics
Photo Series ~ Containers
Summer Lovin’ – Dog Days
Summer Lovin’ – Water Babies
Perth Deer
Winter Squirrel
ky
Wild Grasses
Frosted Light
Ice Storm
Lit Fog
Picturesque Sublimity
Split-Rail Fence
Barbed Wire
Ottawa Maple Fall
Busy Bees Drunk on Sedum
Fire Watchers
Crystal Light
Fireworks over Niagara Falls
Birthday Nap
Niagara Skywheel
Painted Water
Rooftop Sunset
Vineland Sky
Garlic (Press) Gallery
Admittedly, I found your site because of your post about your dog with kidney disease. But I also was curious about the title of your URL. I’m glad you shoot photos and not animals! 🙂
You have a vast and very eclectic collection of photos here. I enjoyed looking through them… and understanding or trying to figure out what the titles meant. Thank you for sharing them with us!
You’re very welcome, Shauna. Yes, I was being playful in choosing the title and found out only quite a while afterward that there was a similarly titled site that focused on hunting. Not my cup of tea, that’s for sure. I much prefer to “shoot” what I see through the lens of a camera. 🙂 Glad you enjoyed the eclecticism of my eye.
keep rockin it dale
Thank you … even anonymous support is great to receive. Thank you 🙂
The titles are great to go with your excellent photos
Thank you … that definitely makes me smile. I’m never sure how the “outside” world looks at me creativity, so that means a lot.