Avant-garde

August 30, 2010

Me: (Proudly) Hey Mike, Kelaine told me she likes how my photos have taken an avant-guard style with the toy camera. Mike: *Laughing* Do you know what that means?!? Me: Yes. *shifty eyes* I looked it up and…(I’ll leave out my answer because it was wrong. Even after I looked it up the day before. [...]

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It’s our anniversary – in soft focus

August 29, 2010

We did it! This was us 12 years ago today shortly after we had officially tied the knot. We got married at the United Church in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Our photographer took many photos of us – some of which he used a soft focus filter on his film camera OR he just rubbed some [...]

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Underbelly

August 28, 2010

I was reminded that I sneakily took this photo last month through the screen door while Donner was taking a nap. Donner is mostly black, but he’s got a white patch of fur on his tummy we call his “bathing suit area” because it’s underwear shaped and it’s right around the part of his body [...]

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With the greatest of ease…

August 27, 2010

What an exciting day I had today! Over at the fancy new cbc building, a trapeze act put on a free show at lunch time. I had both my cameras with me. Sadly, I didn’t bring my long lens, so I wasn’t able to get my favourite close up shots, but I did my best [...]

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A Rescue Mission

August 26, 2010

A few weeks ago, my cousin Andrea wrote to me about her experience making Grandma‘s Puffed Wheat Squares: We made 2 batches on Christmas day and one looked like puffed wheat floating on motor oil and the other looked good until you picked them up and then they fell apart and you got stuck with [...]

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More happy accidents…

August 25, 2010

I’ve decided to take your advice/lovely comments and look at this film stuff as happy accidents. Thanks, guys! Also, I love the thought of having a huge old camera with a blackout blanket over my head while holding up a huge flash that goes “POOF!” when it goes off. I would also be wearing a [...]

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From the, “I meant to do that” file.

August 24, 2010

Today I went from, “I think I’m getting the hang of this film stuff” until about 4:45 when I went to pick up this past weekend’s photos. Then I thought, “Who took these photos?”. They look like the graveyard we visited, but these aren’t the pictures I remember taking. The photo above was a ghostly [...]

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A grilled cheese sandwich for dinner kind of evening

August 23, 2010

I got all kinds of stuff done today – lots of work, some laundry, I took the camera in to get cleaned, dropped off some rolls of film, and other assorted errands. This means I have to wait for this weekend’s photos and wait for my camera to come back all spiff on Wednesday. I [...]

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Peach portrait and Donner portrait

August 22, 2010

I spent the afternoon blanching the skin off nearly 2 bags of peaches, only to get 6 jars. I lost one can in a strange boiling incident – the lid somehow slid off the jar. While it looked like a wide mouth mason jar, I think it was about 2 mm smaller than standard and [...]

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Tangy Lemony Tarts

August 21, 2010

Mike’s mom and dad sent me a delicious recipe that is a favourite in their house – Lemon Butter. Mike said his nanny used to make this recipe all the time and she used this recipe to make tarts. And who doesn’t love tarts? I made them mini-size, but you can make them in the [...]

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