I’m wiped out from our BFO (Bereaved Families of Ontario) reunion this evening, seven weeks after the last meeting which I missed as I was enroute to Vancouver. I have lots to say about it, but I’ll save that for a time when my eyelids aren’t so heavy.

… in every neighbourhood, that is. This guy goes around town all year round in a Santa hat and no shirt, pulling stunts like this. When I showed up, he was doing push-ups on top of the fountain jet.
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I took some photos at lunch and on the way home from work to see how the camera performed in various conditions. I’m pleased to see it does pretty well in low light, which I often shoot in:

The kit lens is 18-55mm, so I checked it out at the widest angle, macro distances, and increasing/decreasing [...]

After FedEx delivered the camera yesterday afternoon I wanted to take some test shots before hitting the road. I recruited the one available person, a reluctant subject rather than a volunteer. Kitty was even less willing and disappeared, leaving Helma to be my photo subject in the backyard:

When I first heard Amy Winehouse on CBC Radio, I knew I had to listen to the rest of her latest album. Her voice has that world-weary quality I love in music from the 60s from the likes of Aretha Franklin et al, which makes it hard to believe Amy Winehouse is only 23. I [...]

I spent about an hour at Niagara Falls on the U.S. side taking photos with my new Pentax K100D that I ordered online last Friday and had shipped to Scranton for Monday.

My first DSLR! There’s no post-production in this picture. Not bad, without a tripod.
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So I’m not going flying (edited) this morning, it’s too windy Ah well, at least I got one flight in.
Through a link to my site, I discovered why the QEW was closed on Saturday morning. Directly from the Hamilton Spectator, mistakes* and all:
Saturday, May 19, 2007 | Updated at 5:58 PM EDT
QEW car accident [...]

Some metaphotography at Dunmore Cemetery.

I can’t keep my eyes open for much longer after early-morning flying, visiting, driving, an afternoon party, and an impromptu trip to the hospital to see a friend who landed there yesterday. If the weather co-operates I’ll fly again in the morning before a meeting with the estate lawyer, wait [...]

There isn’t much that can get me out of bed at 6:30 on a Sunday morning… except flying. Alan and I had a windy morning, but was it ever good to get up in the air again!

Holly and I went shooting at Dunmore Cemetery before they closed at 8:00, and I chased this woodchuck into hiding. I think he gave me the woodchuck equivalent of the finger.
Today Helma finally took the plunge into digital photography, and she merrily went on her way to photograph flowers and trees. Now that she [...]