About a year and month ago, I posted a small gallery of photos on my blog (the old version of my blog… the one I had to delete because it got hacked… but I’m not bitter). I had taken some pictures at Lawrencetown Beach (here in Nova Scotia), and they’d turned out pretty well, especially considering that I’d been using a little HP Photosmart M437 that had no viewfinder. The LCD screen had been damnably hard to see in the bright sunlight, so I really wasn’t sure if I was getting the shots I wanted.

The HP Photosmart M437

Thankfullly, most of them came out pretty well. Well enough that I felt inspired to post them on my blog. I received some nice comments from readers (including a photographer friend of mine, whom I deeply respect and whom I am interviewing for this blog’s Voices of Reason Project… no, the project is not forgotten… it is still in progress), and I got to thinking how nice it would be to get back into photography again. Time was, many years back, that I worked at the camera counter of a department store and learned quite a bit about photography from the experience. I took some fairly experimental pictures back in those days, and my Lawrencetown adventure stirred in me that old familiar longing to get out and start a-shootin’. (more…)

There’s so much going on that I have to write three blog entries in one. I’ll make each of them a third the size of a normal blog post, so you won’t be scrolling till a week from Thursday. Same great bloggy taste, but only a third the calories.

Here goes…

Paddytum, by Tricia Heighway

Every once in a while, you read a book that just sits entirely right in your brain. It fits, it’s comfortable, it makes itself at home and weaves its way into your psyche. Paddytum, the début novel by Tricia Heighway, is just such a book. I finished reading it last evening, and I was sorry it had ended. It was a sheer and utter delight. (more…)