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A snow-covered landscape

This week I heard the song “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth” and I wondered how photographers would fare with that tune, so when my friend Jo stopped by to help me feed the ducks and chickens that lay a few eggs and make a lot of noise I asked her, in the spirit of that classic song, to help me come up with some new verses for photographers.

Barriere pre-schoolers take the show at theirannual Christmas performence

Ultra-wide angle lens and the 120-foot Tree of Hope

Thinking about film again

Back in the days when I began earning my living pointing a camera, the widest lens I would use was a 35mm on my 35mm camera, and a 50mm on my medium format camera. Both were as wide as I would use because I disliked the perspective.

Yellowhead Blues, a murder mystery, has scenes in Fawn Creek, Horsefly, Little Fort and more

When I first tried infrared back in the early 1970s my choices were between purchasing black and white print IR film or colour IR slide film.

My advice to photographers

Long exposure workshop at Chase Falls