Visited two of my favourite Canadian cities (it’s a short list 2/4 in 24 hours) Ottawa and Kingston as they both shook off the winter blahs and celebrated the season. Winter no matter how long is always too long in the mind of most Canadians and despite modern homes, central heating and non frozen pipes …
Winter rolls on. A storm, the worst of the winter so far (according to the forecast), is set to roll through Eastern Ontario in the next 24 hours or so. The old saw, “Red in the morning, sailors take warning..”, despite the fact we’ll see no sailors in these parts for at least a couple …
Well in the past seven days, winter certainly arrived here in Eastern Ontario. That it took until third week in January becoming more and more the norm these days. Another thing that is increasingly common, based entirely on anecdotal evidence is the roller coaster temperatures we seem to be experiencing on a near weekly basis. …
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more”. By William Shakespeare. (from Henry V, spoken by King Henry). While not quite up to Henry V trying to rally his troops against the French, following up an unexpected success that was JÖKULSÁRLÓN thanks to some major post editing is daunting just the same. The sudden …
is the name of the iceberg filled bay in Iceland I introduced you to last week. The post reflected on how technology is making it easier and easier to take even a poorer quality image and make it at least usable in some form or another. The featured photo here was the result of a …
Fall, September 2017 to be exact, I’m on the trip of a lifetime in Iceland nearing the final days and I’m about to reach Jökulsárlón a glacier lagoon that promises up close pictures of icebergs slowly floating to the sea. Challenges – the weather is the worst I seen since arrive in this wondrous country, …
Getting ready for the spring trip going over some old photos from two years ago to see where I’d like to check out again. Columbia Ice Fields always on the list. Three reasons. They are stunning. They will disappear in an ever-warming world. They are almost impossible to take a bad photo of. This particular …
Ok so Google has this new app called Storyboard. Storyboard transforms your videos into comics. It selects, lays out, and stylizes video frames using experimental research technology from Google that runs entirely on your device. Google Play Load the video it does the magic and then offers up a few style variations, save, share or …
A few weeks late to capitalize on the Christmas angst caused by someone, somewhere the tune was no longer appropriate for modern times… But Baby it is cold outside. But you had to know it was coming. Cold on January as predictable as the climate change denier standard response, “Gee yeah where’s your global warming …
The coldest hike, I think so far, the wind a bit bitter with a cold front moving through that will see the temperatures go from just above freezing at noon to -18 overnight. Ah January, we missed you…. The loop is rated moderate and six months ago I would have argued with that rating… today …