A beautiful evening on an unusually cold November day at Toronto’s Union Station
My view of the CN Tower as I await for the train home…
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Spooky Tower
Happy All Hallows’ Eve!
Even the CN Tower is in the Halloween spirit.
Spooky CN Tower in the October fog and rain.
Morning Commute
Another quick reminder that all you need to take photos is a camera ANY camera. The shots bellow were taken with my cellphone camera and processed using a free app.
Camera: Samsung S10
Processing: Snapseed
Last Day of Summer
This past weekend was the last one for the Summer of 2019. I enjoyed a great time with my beloved and some friends. and even made a few new ones. From faerie rings of delicious Slippery Jacks (we played it safe and didn’t try them!), to playful farm dogs and little water creepy crawlers, we had a blast. Great company by the fire and surrounded by horses during the day.
Can’t wait for our next trip!
Day at the Zoo
Last week I went on a family trip to the Toronto Zoo. Here are some of the highlights.
Longing for Spring
I decided to post some of my floral shots in hopes that it will bring Spring a bit sooner.
Read MoreHeritage Sanctuary Downtown
Amidst the hustle and bustle of Oshawa, Ontario, lies a Sanctuary within the city’s core. This nearly 100 year-old church is a beautiful example of turn-of-the-century ecclesiastical architecture.
Read MoreDowntown Night
Nov 13, 2010, shot with a Point and Shoot Olympus FE3000, X890
Some people think that in order to take good photographs they need a great camera and and expensive software to process the pictures. The panorama above is proof of the contrary. It was taken in 2010 with a cheap Olympus point-and-shoot and stitched together with open source software. All you really need to take good photos is the desire to do so, and with practice and determination anyone can do it!
Looking back
Almost four years ago I took one of my favourite photographs of Lake Ontario in early Spring of 2015
Read MoreA Walk Through the Woods
Day at the Races
The Sun is Eclipsed by the Moon
Today on August 21ˢᵗ, 2017 North America saw a beautiful and rare sight, a total solar eclipse. This beautiful syzygy, this cosmic ballet, gave me the opportunity to try something interesting. With a bit of DIY and help from my beloved I managed to snap this shot from near totality here in South Ajax.
I wanted to share this moment with those who could for one reason or another, be it geographical or meteorological or due to prior duties, were unable to share in this amazing moment.
mmmmmm Morels!
A couple of days ago I found a great surprise in my back yard, morels! Although only a small crop of 2 specimens, its was as nice break from the constant rain and near flooding of the last few days.
After bringing them inside and giving them a quick pat dry I went to task to make a positive ID on my new found mycological gastronomical find!
After confirming that indeed I had found some tasty tasty morels, prep began.
I cut them in halves and washed them in some cold water and a bit of salt to get rid of any lingering visitors and dirt, then I pat dried them to get them ready for the main event.
The morels were sautéed in salted butter to bring out the meaty nutty flavour they are famous for.
The final result was nothing short of amazing. The warm sautéed morels melted in the mouth with delightfully meaty, buttery and nutty flavours. Definitely prime evidence for their choice status among mushrooms lovers.
An Evening in Downtown Whitby
Another Toronto Photograph
Portrait of a Small Town
This morning I had the opportunity to capture some nice photos of Downtown Uxbridge, Ontario. These are some of them.
Summer Afternoon by the Water
Downtown Toronto during a lazy Summer Sunday afternoon…
The Jewel of the Solar System
Just a quick post of a Photo of Saturn taken on February 26, 2016. A 629 frames HD video was taken with a Nikon D3200 attached to a Celestron 6SE Nextar, stabilized and the best 29 frames, were stacked and processed to give the resulting image:
Summer in the City
In order to warm up this mid winter season I decided to share a Photo of Yonge Street in Toronto taken in July 2016 from the Toronto Islands Ferry.
Vega & Schedar - Stellar Photography
These are a couple of years old now but I noticed it has been a while since I posted anything. Took these on August 2015. Both were taken with a Nikon 3200 attached to a 6" Celestron Nextar 6SE. The first photograph is a stack of 19 x 10 second exposures of the star Schedar (α Cassiopeiæ) is a orange giant star about 230 light years away. It's 4-5 times more massive than the Sun and 42 times as big! (-Wiki-)
The second photograph is a single 15 second exposure of the star Vega (α Lyræ) only 25 light years away . It's just over 2 times the size of the Sun both in terms of mass and radius. Notably Vega was the North Polar Star about 12,000 years ago. (-Wiki-)
