Rembrandt and portraits by invitation

September 1, 2020 by John Mitchell | 1 Comment

“Almost two-thirds of his entire output consists of portraits of one kind or another — self-portraits, group portraits, single portraits. And instead of being commissioned, the subjects for most of these works were chosen by […]

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Educational entertainment

August 25, 2020 by John Mitchell | 1 Comment

You wouldn’t think of a drive along the Welland Canal as educational entertainment. I didn’t. I avoided the main highways as I drove from Cambridge, toward the Niagara Peninsula. Arriving in Port Colborne, we sat […]

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The return of the WAFFLE!

August 4, 2020 by John Mitchell | 1 Comment

It took me by surprise. It’s Civic Holiday Monday in Canada. The first Monday in August. Growing up, it symbolized summer was half over. In the days when we made stuff, it marked the end […]

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Give justice to the “Arrowhead Sand Dunes”

July 4, 2020 by John Mitchell | 1 Comment

Recently I added an image of “Big Bend” in Arrowhead Provincial Park to my store. I love it as an art piece with its diagonal lines and textures. Yet the art print does not reveal […]

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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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