Hello and Happy 2022! Hope you had a pleasant holiday season and were able to enjoy it with family and friends, despite our ongoing Covid challenges. As mentioned previously, I spent the holidays working at a camera store and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. But now it’s back to my photography. I’m dedicating myself to it this year, and hope to show much more new work shortly, so stay tuned.
But learning continues to be a focus as well. I thought I had heard of almost everything to do with photography – yes, there might be some obscure piece of equipment I had never heard of, but in terms of genres, I thought I knew it all. Not so. Listened to a great podcast driving to work about a totally new (to me) genre called “vernacular photography”. What is it? Read on.
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It’s been a trying year to say the least. Lockdowns, restrictions, cancellations, disappointments, even changes to things as simple as ordering food. I went to a local take-out place recently, only to be told that no more than 2 could be inside the take-out order area and that once my order was placed, I had to wait in a pre-marked parking area, in my car. Businesses and people are adapting. I have to admire how well we are adapting. But it still sucks. And on top of it all, my blog host, WordPress.com, decided to completely replace the blog editor I was familar with. Hence no posts for the last two cycles. An old dog can learn new tricks, but it sure takes a lot longer. I decided recently that I needed a break from it all, and with restrictions in place, took a trip north to two parks. 
Most of us have similar stories. In fact, exactly the same stories.
Many of my generation are travellers. Â We have done our bit for job, country and family, and now have the time and the funds to see the world. Â Many of us travel to exotic locations, with cultures not remotely similar to ours, to experience all that human civilization has to offer. Â I’ve seriously considered joining my friends, especially where the destination offers some unique photography. Â But I’ve also come to realize that much of the beauty of life can be experienced right here, in the country where I live, Canada.
I gave my first full length feature talk on photography this month, to a sister camera club. Â Its members were knowledgeable, animated and fully open to the challenge of challenging me to entertain them. Â It isn’t easy spending 90 minutes in front of an audience, especially when any of them could have as readily been the speaker for hire.
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