Canada Day Weekend

Jul
08
2017
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Here it is July 8th 2017 and Canada is in its 151st year. Last weekend was the Canada Day weekend.  Did you celebrate?

There were a lot of activities across the country to partake in. Personally, I avoided the crowds and went to a show with my wife.

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100 Years After Tom Thomson

Jul
07
2017
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July 8, 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the death of Tom Thomson. To this day his death is a mystery. His burial location is a mystery. His talent is no mystery.

Fallen Timber is an example of Thomson?s early work

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Proud of what I do

Jun
10
2017
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Feeling Proud – Yes I have to admit my head maybe swells a little when I see portrait I created as big as a bus.

I am proud of the fact that the skin tones are real not orange or pale and washed out. I am proud that my years of training allows

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16th Annual Elephant Waltz

May
03
2017
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Do the elephants really dance at the “Elephant Waltz?”

Well they do some pretty amazing things and are rewarded with a feast of healthy treats, but as far as dancing goes, I guess that would depend on your definition of dancing. If you ever saw

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What I do…Some call it a style

Apr
20
2017
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What is my style? Photo-journalism in the truest sense!

When I had my website re-built in the spring of 2015 I found it difficult to write a biography for the site. Personally, I find it difficult to write about myself and not feel like I’m bragging. The team at Elle Jay Inc. hired the incredible Jack

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Be A Donor

Apr
08
2017
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Today I had the opportunity to photograph the fourth annual Cambridge flag raising for “Be A Donor.”

Cambridge Ontario is in the forefront of organ donor awareness in the province of Ontario. The charge is lead by a small yet hard working band of

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There’s a time and a place for i-phone photos.

Apr
06
2017
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There is a time and place for i-phone photos, but it is not everywhere, every time.

Last night I ventured out to do some late day photography. I drove under the railway overpass on Dundas Street and the site of railcars and rail ties under the bridge

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Age and Responsibility

Mar
31
2017
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Advantages come with responsibilty

Growing in years has many pitfalls. Ask any “old” person. “Old” is subjective. Teachers are “old” to their students, yet they may have only finished their own education within the last few years. Forty ain’t so bad to somebody that’s

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Amazing Dreams and Perspective

Mar
26
2017
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat – have you seen it?

Yes, twice now. Once in the early 90’s at the Sony Centre in Toronto with Donny Osmond as Joseph and then again this past Friday at the Dunfield Theatre in Cambridge.

Were they

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The sorrowful wale of a steam whistle

Mar
20
2017
by John Mitchell | 1 Comment

March 19th Jan and I drove to St. Jacobs. What drew us there was the sorrowful wale of a steam whistle.

It is a sound we remember from our youth. Unless you group up in the age of steam power you just couldn’t understand the calling of the chorus

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