• Toronto Zombiewalk 2012

    I'd never heard of the annual Zombiewalk, but what a feast for a photographer! While the zombies are busy shambling around and eating brains, they're also very eager to have their photos taken. This is rightly so, since the creativity they put into their makeup and costumes is remarkable. I took a tip from the [...]

  • Songwriter’s Cafe Meetup Group

    Today I attended another roundtable session of my favourite meetup.com group - Songwriter's Cafe Toronto. The group normally meets once a month where members present a song they have written, either live or recorded. The group then engages in  friendly, constructive feedback for the writer. Some members come only to listen, which is welcomed. Criticism is [...]

  • Kensington Market Winter Solstice Parade

    A photo meetup group led me to an annual parade unlike any other I've ever seen in Toronto. The Winter Solstice parade takes place on December 21, they shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. To celebrate the coming of longer days, the parade culminated in a large fire and fire performers. The [...]

  • Autumn Photo Meetup

    I went on an early morning photographer's meetup at a park in Toronto to capture some of the autumn highlights. First thing in the morning, the light is warmed and the shadows more forgiving. The day's first light basks your subjects, be they people, buildings, or nature, in a special glow that far too quickly [...]

  • Cherry Blossoms 2011

    This was the first time I had heard of and gone to see the Cherry Blossoms in Toronto's High Park. The trees were a gift from Japan in 1959,  and every spring, they bloom forth in stunning pink and white, only to disappear as fast as they emerge. High Park posts daily progress of the blooming when [...]

  • Graffiti Alley HDR photo meetup

    Meetup.com is a great place to meet others with similar interests and share knowledge, network, and improve your own skills. I joined meetups for songwriting, photography, and social get togethers. For this specific meetup, the organizer started with a quick tutorial on how to capture HDR, or high dynamic range, photos. This was the first [...]

  • Supermoon March 19, 2011

    Every once in a (long) while, the moon gets a bit closer to the Earth, and appears up to 14% larger in the sky. This makes photographer go a little bonkers and get very upset if there's cloud cover that night. Fortunately, we had a clear calm night to take our photos as part of [...]