9 July 2010 by pat.

You never know what will prompt someone to make a visit to your website.

I am, I’ll admit, fairly opinionated, and leave my opinions in a number of places, like comments on articles in The Toronto Star, or on Antonia Zerbisias’ blog, Broadsides.

At most sites where comments are accepted, there’s frequently the choice of attaching a URL to one’s name, so I usually attach my website to my name. (If I’m not willing to stand behind my comments, I’d have to ask myself why, and reconsider the comment.)

One person with whom I have sparred on a number of occasions followed the link. Last night, he bought two prints of the lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove (#2).

So I will continue to put my name to my comments, state my opinions (civilly, usually), and take what customers that may bring me.

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8 July 2010 by pat.

I guess I should say websites, because I updated both my webspace on FinerWorks and my own website.

Today I completed image adjustments to some photos I had taken of windows and doors and uploaded them to FinerWorks for sale.

So I can track number of views on different subjects, I’ve split the images for sale across three galleries:

• Still life,
• Peggy’s Cove,
• and Windows and Doors.

In the future, I’ll be adding more galleries, and also some merchandise, like ceramic tiles, mugs, and calendars.

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21 June 2010 by pat.

Before and after pictures of my back garden today.

I removed weeds from all three beds, whacked the weeds between the flagstones, and pruned both the sandcherry (purple leaves) and elderberry (pale green leaves). I got started at a reasonable time this morning, and was done shortly after noon. I think I took this photo around 1:30.

The photo also demonstrates why early morning or late evening light is kinder to photographing growing things: the colors aren’t as blue, and places where the sun hits aren’t as contrasty.

I now have a huge pile of branches that I need to break down into sizes that the city will accept in the garden waste category.

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20 June 2010 by pat.

The fourth of my series of garden articles has now been posted to BlogTO. I took the GO train to the Burlington Aldershot station, and a bus from there to RBG. Read all about it. More pictures over on Flickr (and more to come, together with detailed text).

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19 May 2010 by pat.

Along with sunny days come migratory birds! My backyard is certainly attracting them.They like to have places to perch. In addition to the fence, they’ve got the sand cherry standard and the elderberry.They like to scratch the soil for insects. They’ve got a garden free of pesticides for that. They like to have baths and drinks of water. My water cascade definitely provides that! I had three species of warblers at the same time in it on the weekend: it looked like a bird convention (hmm… a parliament of fowls?).I was very glad to have the long lens to take their pictures. I did have to raise the ISO to 800, which resulted in somewhat grainy images, due to the shade in my yard from surrounding trees and the speed at which these birds move. If they were slower seed eaters, I could have gotten by with an ISO of 200; as it was, 800 wasn’t enough to stop the motion of the black-throated blue warbler, who is rather blurry in my shots.Lots of pictures over in my Backyard Birds folder on Flickr.

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9 May 2010 by pat.

My image of the golden pear will be appearing in an iPad app in the near future. I’ve sold its non-exclusive use to Grocio.com.I should take advantage of the crummy weather today and update my website.

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29 April 2010 by pat.

They had the cutest spoons at T&T Supermarket. I couldn’t resist. Somehow, I just pictured serving a lovely little amuse gueule on them at my next dinner party. So tonight, when I was cooking up scallops and edamame for dinner, I… decided to play a little.

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25 April 2010 by pat.

I’m exploring all the professional groups associated with photography through Linked In, and found a group for members of the North American Nature Photography Association, which led me to the association’s website.There’s some truly inspirational nature photography on their 2010 Member Showcase.

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23 April 2010 by pat.

Last week I bought myself a long zoom: 125-400mm.I’m practicing with it on birds in my backyard, and posting some of the results at my Flickr account.

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25 October 2009 by pat.

One of my photos. Available for sale at FinerWorks

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29 September 2009 by pat.

Signe Langford was the chef at The Riverside Cafe, where friends and I used to go for martinis and mussels. Many types of martinis on the menu, and many different broths in which mussels were steamed to perfection. Alas, she moved on, and the last I had heard, was thrilling people in Yorkville.

Another change, another career: she’s now the food blogger at Moses Znaimer’s Zoomer Magazine.

Have a read of her blog! She’s worth following.

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9 August 2009 by pat.

I’m on Flickr under two separate accounts. On one of them, I had posted a photo of a polychromatic wood sculpture of Joan of Arc that I found on my travels. Recently it was given an award by someone, together with the information about the Flickr group that I could also post the image to.

I joined the group, posted the image, and then read the group information.

What I read runs counter to my ethics; I removed the image, quit the group, and posted about why I was refusing the “honour.”

Yes, I want a large audience for my images, and want to spread info around about them. But I cannot use, and will not permit my images to be used, to support ideologies and beliefs to which I am ultimately opposed.

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14 June 2009 by pat.

Ranjit does beautiful things with a scanner and fresh farmers’ market produce.Some of my favorites: eggs and radishes, greens and onions , tomato, mushrooms & greens, alliums. And he photographs, too: Death Valley

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10 May 2009 by pat.

More work than I expected!

Each skin for a different player/phone has a different template. Each template has a space for the skin and for the desktop artwork, and so requires placing and scaling of two images. And then each template must be uploaded separately!

I have done 16 skins (for iPod touches and iPhones: 4 different variations):

• Blue Lagoon, Iceland: show what a worldly traveller you are
• Stoney Creek Vineyard: for the oenophile in you
• Golden Pear: one of my first still lifes
• Venetian Still Life #2: Masks, music, romance.More to come!

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8 May 2009 by pat.

Tonight, I’ll be working with various images and templates to arrange to sell some of my photos as skins to be applied to iPhones and music players (iPods and Zunes) at Stickstickbangbang.Have just downloaded the 14 different templates I need for the different devices.If nobody knows ya, how can you sell? Promotion is most of the biz.

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