Author Archives: John Mitchell

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NATURE’S WHISPER

May 16, 2020 by John Mitchell | 0 Comments

Nature’s Whisper Sometimes we need to sit quietly in order to hear the message that was meant for our ears. Just a few yards away the water was shouting as it cascaded over the rocks […]

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Do you remember winters like this?

May 11, 2020 by John Mitchell | 0 Comments

OXTONGUE RAPIDS – WINTER 2019 Do you remember old fashioned winters where snowbanks were so high you thought you could touch the phone lines? Did you ever have to fight to free yourself from snow […]

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FINE ART PRINTS FOR SALE

May 1, 2020 by John Mitchell | 1 Comment

FINE ART PRINTS FOR SALE On the journey of learning my craft, I had to learn art; lighting, composition, triangles, leading lines, texture, and on and on.  These lessons were learned studying art and  artists, […]

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I’m not a play thing

February 23, 2020 by John Mitchell | 0 Comments

It was in the late 1980’s. I was taking on pretty much any photographic assignment I could find in order to pay the bills. I picked up the phone when it rang to hear the […]

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Favourites: A successful portrait.

December 29, 2019 by John Mitchell | 2 Comments

Success is not accidentally arriving at a place that makes you happy. Success is arriving at a predetermined place you know will make you happy. That doesn’t mean there aren’t detours along the way. It […]

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Mammoth favourite

December 23, 2019 by John Mitchell | 0 Comments

The Big Dump Impressive! Created for Komdresco Manufacturing in Cambridge in the late 1980’s, this image of a welder working on a dump box for a mining truck needed to express the mammoth task of […]

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Time and change

December 17, 2019 by John Mitchell | 0 Comments

Time and tide wait for no man – Geoffrey Chaucer Keep up with the times or fall behind and become irrelevant. How many times have we heard that? Yet, it becomes increasingly more difficult with […]

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Out with the old, in with the new

December 6, 2019 by John Mitchell | 0 Comments

Out with the old, in with the new, so the saying goes. Death, taxes and change are the only certainties in life. These are two familiar sayings, or at least two that I am familiar […]

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Favourites: Brotherhood

December 1, 2019 by John Mitchell | 0 Comments

Brotherhood: It’s a special bond. In the twenty-five years that I had my studio on King Street in Preston I spent many November 11ths photographing the Remembrance Day service at the cenotaph just down the […]

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Favourites: Fill the frame

November 29, 2019 by John Mitchell | 0 Comments

Fill the frame The year was 1971 and I was in my first year of photographic study at Conestoga College. Looking back, I’m am amazed I was there. There were only 20 positions open and […]

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