The Colonel was invited.
A “Portrait by Invitation” is just as the name suggests a portrait where the subject was invited to sit for the picture. In this earlier blog post I talked about…
Imagine rejecting a Rembrandt.
Early in the decade of the 1660's Rembrandt received a large public commission. Offered initially to Govert Flinck, a student of Rembrandt's Flinck had died only after making a rough…
Rembrandt as an old man (1669). It is said that this was the last self portrait that Rembrandt did, and in fact at the time of his death it was unfinished.
Rembrandt and portraits by invitation
"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…
Educational entertainment
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…
The return of the WAFFLE!
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…
Give justice to the “Arrowhead Sand Dunes”
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…
NATURE’S WHISPER
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…
Do you remember winters like this?
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…
FINE ART PRINTS FOR SALE
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…
I’m not a play thing
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…