September 2011
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Done
If you’re reading this, then you followed a link to the direct tumblr blog. I’m not going to be posting here anymore. Head over too extras.fuzzification.com from now on.
Thanks
Ricky
August 2011
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Fence
Friday evening. I’ve had a busy week at work, time to kick back, relax and enjoy the weekend. I was doing just that when hunger struck and I though, hmmm… there’s a ribfest going on a few blocks away, why not just wander down there and grab some food. Naturally, I grabbed my camera, today my dslr, and wandered south towards the park.
As I approached I didn’t quite...
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Buzz-ification.com
Thanks to my friends Brad and Amanda over at Manicpendemic.com for a tour of their bees. I didn’t get their “famous Garden Tour”, but I did get an exciting show when everyone one around was stung a least once by the bees except me.
I don’t know… I know lots of people have bee hives and such…but I think inviting 60000 animals which are all capable of...
July 2011
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Games
I was really excited when I learned that there was going to be a midway during the Canada Day weekend. I don’t play games or ride the rides, but I just wanted to shoot some photos. But what excited me the most was that it was going to be on the pier. It was like all those scenes from movies set in exotic locales like Coney Island, or Venice Beach, that I always want to go to (as...
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Watch
June 2011
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Watch
May 2011
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WatchThis is where you might find me waiting for the end of the world
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the dice are loaded
Everybody knows this and it’s much too late to throw the dice again, I’ve found. It’s all over, the boat is leaking, the captain lied. The poor stay poor, the rich stay rich. They’ll hang me in the morning on a scaffold. I was born at this time for a reason you see. Everything I have done is between god and me. It’s now or never, it’s me or you. You...
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April 2011
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He didn't mean it...
Ok, I have to admit. When I saw this scrawled on a cable box near the river in London, I thought of one particular person. No names, but out of everyone I know, a single individual, actually a friend, came to mind. I chuckled to myself before I snapped the shot and kept walking.
Later that night when I downloaded my days photos, I started to feel guilty about it, but I never deleted the...
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Spider
I thought I had made a new friend. I thought that my new friend wanted to live on my door because it was safe and secure. That perhaps it liked my company. But at some point today it left. Whether swept away or squished by someone else in the house, or just moved on to greener pastures. Perhaps it just moved inside, somewhere warmer like my bed or my shoes. Spiders love beds and shoes.
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March 2011
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Carved Screen
I’ve had some interesting experiences since I got to this town. Most of them seem to revolve around eating in some way. It’s probably because food or drink is a prime motivator for me to go out into public other than work. Also, I tend to frame my outdoor excursions around getting a coffee or treat.
My experiences have ranged from being basically told that I wasn’t welcome...
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something was missing
I just realized that the bass was turned down. I’m guessing it’s been like that for about 6 months or so. I didn’t really notice. I just listened to music, watched movies, and it didn’t seem to really matter.
It all changed when I was really paying attention to a song, and a bass note I remember being there, just wasn’t. I wondered, where did it go? Was I...
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This is the steeple
This is the steeply from the church on the corner. I can see it from my window and have gone by it almost everyday since I got to this town. Every time I pass by on foot, I always take a moment to stop and look at it in quiet reverence. Not because it’s a church, just because I like the way it looks. My favorite part, which you can’t really see in the picture, is what’s on...
master of time and space
I am not, other wise I’d just fast forward through the rest of winter and get to spring already. I’m really excited about spring this year. I feel like this spring/summer is going to be “that summer”. You know, the one you look back on, where you did a lot, and made some really good memories. When the tide is finally with you after a long time swimming against the...
February 2011
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Swings
I love when trees get this fuzzy look to them. I’m not sure if they always look like this when they loose their leaves, or if its just something that happens over time, but I always seem to notice it about this time of year. It might be just because it’s at this time of year that I look at trees with that longing for the spring thaw, when the trees bud and the snow melts.
January 2011
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Park
After my last post and some other timely posts I read on other photo blogs, I decided that this weekend I would dedicate some time to get out and shoot. I wasn’t quite sure what I’d be doing, where I’d be. I almost went to Toronto for a conference, but because of the weather Saturday, I decided to just stay in town. But also because of the weather, I thought I’d do...
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It's been quiet....
So….. there haven’t been much extras lately. It’s been quiet. I’ve kind of gotten into a routine and things have been flowing along smoothly. Also it seems that in this smooth flow, I haven’t taken many shots as of late. Quickly looking into my photo pool, the last shot I had there is from Mid December…almost a month ago, and before that, the end of...
December 2010
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Distortions
I have a reason to post this picture today. I checked out Daily Dose of Imagery this morning, and I realized “I know where this is”. Reading the caption confirmed my notion. I had been there, and I had taken a shot there. Except with one difference. My shot came a bit (much) later than the one at DDDOI. His shot, from what I imagine was earlier in the summer, is a wide...
October 2010
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Attack!
I think most photo bloggers, or bloggers for that matter have this desire to “be there first”. To photograph, to eat at, to visit, to talk about something first, before anyone else has. If you’re not first, then you risk being dismissed when your audience says to themselves “been there, done that”.
That’s how I felt when I was shooting in the Distillery...
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White and Black
I was asked recently why so many of the pictures I’ve shared in the past weeks have been black and white. I really didn’t have an answer. I was aware that a lot of pictures were black and white, but I hadn’t stopped to think about why.
Perhaps it’s just a phase. I know I’ve gone through other phases before in my photography. A look back and one might see a...
September 2010
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In a pickle
I didn’t do the pickling, I just took the picture. I was around while the pickling was taking place and it was quite the experience. The house was filled with Acetic Acid and dill fumes. Giant pots of water were continuously boiling on the stove and there were cukes everywhere. I have respect for people who can/do practice the lost art of food preservation. In bygone eras, this was...
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“… And when we stray, seek us out and find us, set our feet on the path...”
– J. Cawley 1996
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Smoothie
This is part of the view that I have been having the past few weekend mornings. I’ve started going here for coffee in the morning on the weekends. During the weekdays, I get coffee at the office, but on the weekends, I thought I’d forgo setting up the coffee maker and stocking coffee for a little sit down at the local shop with a cup of fair trade or a cappuccino. Take a time out,...
August 2010
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Soup on a fence
I’d like to think that this can of soup was left there on purpose. That some ingenious person thought that they would leave the can in the sun all day, to heat up and be ready for supper time. I want to think this, not because it would be “enviromentally friendly” but because it would be a fantastic example of improvisation. Getting by without technology, making do with what...
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Dead Pumps
I took an evening walk in a small southwestern Ontario town the other day. I saw the usual things you’d see in any town:Well manicured lawns, cars in the driveways, houses old and new. I came across an old abandoned gas station. I don’t know how long it’s been closed, judging by the stuff inside the station, maybe only a few years if that. The building is degrading, there...
July 2010
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MAPS Air Museum
Last Saturday, I woke up early and headed to the MAPS Air Museum at the Akron Canton Airport to see the air craft and get some photos. The Museum was celebrating it’s 20th anniversary and it was the perfect chance to go and see the great collection the museum has to offer. On special display was a still flying F4U Corsair, which was a real treat to see, it is such a beautiful...
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Caddy
This is a tribute to a departed old friend. Not a human friend, but a mechanical one. This friend was a 1989 Cadillac Sedan DeVille. When it came into my life more than 10 years ago, I had no idea how it would change my life and help to usher me into adulthood.
It was a cold and rainy March day when we got her. To be honest, I wasn’t thrilled. I was hoping for something a bit more...
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Curled Maple Leaf
When I think of a Canada Day photo, this one really isn’t it. I would expect something with the flag flying high and proud, a scene depicting our vast cultural mosaic or the beautiful natural vistas of our home and native land. But this? Not this. A flag, hung inside, all curled up, the maple leaf barely visible.
But to me, today, this is Canada day because the flag is mine, and its...
June 2010
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Get behind the mule
Photography is a relatively new found passion of mine. That’s not to say that I havn’t always enjoyed it. I remember taking pictures with my dad’s old canon cannonet as soon as my hands were big enough to hold it. But it’s only within the last few years that I’ve really started to enjoy it, to strive to learn and be better at it.
Another passion of mine is music. ...
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Yellow alien
I’m not sure if it is an alien or not. I don’t really know what it is. I remember taking the picture during a walk around the UWO Campus, and I also remember not really stopping to find out what it actually was.
I can read a toy makers name on the object and I did spend some time on the company’s website trying to find out what it was (more time than I probably should have...
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Another misaligned cover
I want to believe that the city work crews are just too busy to notice that the service cover that they had just replaced, was not aligned properly. I would also accept that there is a gang of people out there that troll the city spinning these covers just so that people like me will notice them and snap their pictures and they’re sitting somewhere in their subterranean lairs plotting...
May 2010
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Searching for my ship...
But I don’t think it’s the Enterprise…
So, as has happened before, it will happen again. With little fanfare or ceremony the day has come for me to ride out of town. I’ve loaded up my car and I’m ready to go. What sets this ride out apart from those before is the uncertainty of it all. I don’t know where I’ll end up, or if things will work out and...
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Derby
London’s Thames Fatales rolled again last night. It was the first home game of this years roller derby season and it was a spectacular night. The Nickle City Knockouts from Buffalo, NY put up and impressive fight with super fast jammers and an impressive defense. But in a nail biter of an overtime ending, which had the crowd on it’s feet, the Thames Fatales pulled off the...
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tasty snack
At first I thought it was pizza, but then it kinda looks like an Elephant ear…or is it a beaver tail? I don’t know. This photo, of a photo, comes from the April Edition of LOPW in old East. I took a lot of photos that day using two cameras.
In contrast, on the last London Photowalk I only actually took two photos (one of which was Dandelion Grill), both at the start of the walk. ...
April 2010
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LOPW 11 - The return to Old East London
This months photo walk was an anniversary walk. It’s been a year since the first organized walk took place and to mark the event we all returned to the area which started it all. Now I’ve been to Old East village a few times over the course of the year, but it was still nice to go back with the group. It was interesting to see all that had changed and all that had stayed the...
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It’s better to burn out, than to fade away…
I get a bit destructive when I get bored. I like fire. I had a bunch of old light bulbs that weren’t being used (replaced in favor of cfl’s). I needed a photo project.
When I read a piece last week on DIYPhotograpy.net about destroying light bulbs and producing fire and shooting photos, it seemed to be providence. This is one of my resulting photos. A couple of others are on my...
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Dockside
I lied. I couple of weeks ago I said that I didn’t have any more wintry snowy pictures left to post. Well I lied. I did, just one. I was going to hold it back until the dog days of summer when the snow would be a welcome sight, but the fact that the bony hand of winter is trying to grip us again, brought me to post this one up today. Now I really don’t have any more snowy wintry...
March 2010
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Riveting
The rain washed out this months London Ontario Photo Walk so I’m posting a photo from the last photo walk instead. It could have been an interesting walk along the river, and I thought about going anyways and doing the walk. The weather however, proved to be kind of miserable (dark and rainy) and I didn’t really want to risk my camera in the rain so I just stayed home.
I spent a...
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Sky lines
Whenever I see a grouping of contrails in the sky like I saw on the evening I snapped this picture outside my apartment building, I can’t help but think of a quote or song lyric or something some said, that these trails were “like guitar strings in the sky”. I don’t remember exactly where I heard it, but for some reason I think it might have been my 4th grade teacher Mr....
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On thin ice
Hopefully this is my last winter shot for the season. This particular shot comes from the LOPW 11 and is currently the last wintry picture I have. I don’t have any pictures left in my bag with snow or ice in them so if this weather holds it will be the last until next winter. With that said, there was something in the long range forecast about a return to seasonal temps (in and around...
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Pi(e)
Being the geek that I am, I made a pie today (for the first time ever). You see, today is March 14th or 3.14. Which if you know anything about math, are the first three digits of the math-magical constant relating a circles diameter to it’s circumference (Circumference=3.14 diameters) symbolized by the lower case Greek letter pi : π.
Ok, so I didn’t make the pie especially...
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London Photo Walk #10
This month we all took a drive down to scenic Pt. Stanley for some boats, water and ice. In the summer the town is a busy little place with cottagers and beach goers taking in the sun and surf. But this time of year it’s pretty quiet with only a few brave souls heading to the beach for the scenery. It was a gorgeous morning and early afternoon, but as walk time neared, the clouds rolled...
February 2010
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Dropped
There is something about seeing ice cream on the ground that makes me just a bit sad. It’s not because of the pure fact that it’s been wasted. I think it’s more because I can’t help but imagine that there was some child that dropped their cone and how their excitement and joy at having an ice cream cone, in an instant turned into sadness and disappointment at losing...
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Sidewalk bear
Special Sunday post. I don’t usually post on Sundays, but I just had to share this. I’m not quite sure what’s going on here. I was walking across King st earlier today and I wasn’t really paying attention to anything, I think I was looking across a parking lot at the train station. I looked down the street where I was walking and I saw a bear. I was a bit startled, I...
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Not for long
I shot this photo back in November. It was for my NaPhoBoMo 2009 project, but I overlooked it for some reason or another (I forgot that I had visited the site when I returned there in December). I also mentioned the location in the Jan. 8th post “Deserted”. It is a site of a former big box store, soon to become the home of another. It was recently reported in the paper that this...
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Flats
Another post I found at the bottom of that bag I mentioned yesterday. This one comes from my trip to India last January. This particular building was located on what google maps calls “Joggers Park Road”. Adjacent to this road, is a jogging/walking track (or a Joggers Park perhaps?). Which is a very nicely built and maintained walking path, which is separated from traffic by...
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Harpist
A harpist is one who plays the Harp, obviously. One who plays the harp could also be called a Harper, but I didn’t want to title the posts that, lest they be confused with the leader of our country. This is another picture dug out from the bottom of my picture sack. This one comes from the Home County Folk Festival. I think this was a booth selling harps and other musical instruments. ...