Tranquil…Therapeutic.
Tranquil and therapeutic are the two words that come to mind when I think of one of my favourite places. Of course, I’m talking about Ontario’s treasure; Algonquin Provincial Park. …
“DON’T MOVE!”
This is more accurately a portrait without objection than a “portrait by invitation.” My friend Reid and I were in Algonquin Park. One of us had recently turned 65, and…
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…
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…
Where the waterways weren't enough they helped mother nature with the construction of log slides.
Seeing the hidden Algonquin
Algonquin's sausage - lumbering. I was told there are two things you don't want to see how they are made; taxes and sausage. Lumbering is a verb not a noun.…
Spruce Bog, Algonquin Park
Spruce Bog, Algonquin Park - accessible trail In my adventures to Algonquin Park I had never walked the Spruce Bog Trail. That changed the morning of October 7th when my…
Part 2 – The Algonquin Adventure
Continuing on…It's still day 2 of our trip, February 20, 2019 Even the drive is an adventure. Driving out of Oxtongue Rapids we picked up Highway 60 and headed east.…
On the way to Algonquin Park we again took a side trip to Oxtongue Rapids. This time we booth put on snow shoes and began exploring areas a little further downstream. The first thing I noticed was the rushing water below me and decided I wanted to capture the feeling of the speed of its movement. Filtering the lens and adjusting my exposure to get a shutter speed below 1/2 second gave me an image showing the rapid yet smooth motion of the river.
Adventure with purpose
An Adventure with purpose - Capturing winter scenic images in Algonquin Provincial Park A visit to Algonquin Provincial Park is always an adventure. When that adventure has a purpose of…
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