Nature Calls

Last day in Halifax and caught some nice natural surroundings. This is Frog Pond. A very picturesque little cove made moreso by the colours of fall. Quiet and still…




And these little guys seemed to be enjoying the early morning sun as well.


Took another crack at my Crooked Tree, this time with a different rendering.


A Beautiful Day in Halifax

Halifax is a great town. Even better when the weather is good, as it was today. Pristine blue skies all around. Started the day seeing this oddball, crooked tree lit up by the morning sun. Not many options for composition as it was otherwise surrounded by other trees and buildings, so opted for gratuitous negative space…


And in my continuing fascination with glass buildings and reflections captured this early evening.


Fortunately, blue sky isn’t the only thing that Halifax has to offer…


The Triangle is a cool pub and is a terrific place to unwind at the end of the day. One of many, many, many such watering holes that grace the streets of downtown.

Like I said: Halifax is a great town.

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A Batch From Bellevue

Back from a week staying in the great city of Bellevue, WA. Very little time to get out and shoot. The Lamborghini Gallardo from the previous post was certainly a highlight. With some spare time one evening I took in some of the local architecture – lots of glass and steel.

This one makes me think of Frank Lloyd Wright. It’s nothing more than a modern office-plex shot on its side. But has a FLW kind of feel:


A couple more scenes caught my eye as the sun got lower in the sky starting with this trio of receding buildings, overlapped and compressed…


In addition to all the steel and glass Bellevue has an abundance of greenery as is to be expected in the Pacific Northwest. The organic and inorganic are always butting up against each other…


There is a WHACK of glass in that town! In contrast, I noticed this garbage can against a monolith of concrete. Nothing overly exciting, but I took a gamble that it might look interesting with another HDR treatment and converted to black and white.


There’s actually not much grit at all in Bellevue. Helluva nice place.

Suh-weet!

There are some certainties in life… Death. Taxes. And seeing an amazing street machine parked in front of my hotel-of-choice in beautiful Bellevue, Washington. Take this latest example that stopped me in my tracks this evening…


Money can’t buy happiness my a$$. I can guarantee you wouldn’t be able to wipe the smile off the face of whoever owns this piece of art.

Somebody Get Me a Bicycle

So I’m wandering the streets of Monaco when I stumble upon a set of rustic, old-world, concrete-and-stone stairs. They immediately struck me as a heavy black and white candidate, and I snapped this…


Aside from looking cool, with leading lines and graphic elements and loads of texture, the scene also reminded me of my favorite photograph by the late Henri Cartier-Bresson. Witness “Hyères, France, 1932“:

© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum

In my mind this is a perfect image. It has everything. And it reflects Cartier-Bresson’s pursuit of the “decisive moment” where everything falls together in a single, fleeting instant.

Now, I’m not suggesting I have even an inkling of Cartier-Bresson in me. But if I would have had the time to wait for someone to walk through the upper left corner of that frame…

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