22 Jul 2009 Breakfast??
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22 Jul 2009 Princess
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Princess

She was a perfect little model, with perfectly painted red toenails — as all Princesses have, of course!

painted princess toes

I am so excited to be hired to shoot her mum’s wedding this fall, I wish the date were even closer. I’m already thinking of how much fun the reception’s going to be!

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21 Jul 2009 Garlic Scapes
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garlic scapes garlic scapes

They came in my organic food bin yesterday. They look mostly like green onions, but taste like a mix of garlic and onion.

A little info from Mama Earth Organics:

Garlic scapes, which only appear on the finest hardneck garlic varieties, curl upward as they grow, ultimately straighten, and then grow little seed-like bulbs. Astonishingly, they’re usually discarded before harvesting in the most of the U.S. but are considered a delicacy by most chefs. Contained within the garlic scape is a great deal of flavour, although the stalk never does reach the level of the pungent garlic bulb itself. When the garlic scapes are still in full curl, they are tender and delicious. Anyone who wishes to add the taste of garlic to a recipe that calls for onions will find that using garlic scape will provide enough of a bite to fulfill the purpose of the onion, as well as give the recipe an added dash of aroma and flavour.

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20 Jul 2009 Biplane Ride Over Ottawa: Videoclips
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This is my favourite of the bunch. You can see Parliament Hill below for most of the clip:

The other nine videos shot from takeoff to landing can be viewed here. The biplane was a 1939 Waco UPF-7. For more information about the biplane rides, I refer you to the Canada Aviation Museum website.

Update: I put together some of the clips to make one video and added music.

Biplane Ride Over Ottawa from Gail Edwin-Fielding on Vimeo.

July 19, 2009
Canada Aviation Museum
Rockcliffe Airport, Ottawa

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19 Jul 2009 Biplane Evermore
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19 Jul 2009 Flying Over Ottawa
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19 Jul 2009 The Ottawa Preview
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adjustment

Ottawa

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locks

I’ve edited and uploaded about a dozen photos so far [set here]. The weather was all over the place, but I had a great Saturday nevertheless!

More photos to come…

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18 Jul 2009 Wacky Weather, Ottawa!
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17 Jul 2009 Canadian Centennial Of Flight
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Canada is celebrating 100 years of powered flight in 2009.

Official Website: http://canadiancentennialofflight.ca
Air Force website: http://canadiancentennialofflight.ca/airforce/
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53984079560
CAPA Website: http://www.capa-acca.com
Baddeck Website: http://www.flightofthesilverdart.ca
Hawk One Website: http://www.hawkone.ca
Blog: http://canadiancentennialofflight.blogspot.com/

Right now the weather in Ottawa looks unfavourable for flying this weekend, which means I’ll have to try for a biplane ride another day. Who knows, maybe the forecasters are wrong?

In any case, I’m going to check out whatever aviation exhibits there are in Ottawa celebrating the Centennial of Flight and maybe even get myself to an airport next week to see if I can photograph part of the Century Flight, an armada of more than 100 small aircraft making a commemorative journey from coast to coast, beginning in Boundary Bay, BC, and ending in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

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16 Jul 2009 Godiva: perhaps too close to the office
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