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pinery provincial park, labour day weekend 2010

September 7, 2010

High winds, dear friends, the lake of my childhood swims and the sand that gets in everything.

Posted by jodi on September 7, 2010 at 7.29pm
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first shot with the holga

August 26, 2010

Ambassador Bridge, May 2010.
Fuji Provia 400X.

Posted by jodi on August 26, 2010 at 5.13pm
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I played around a bit on vacation with using the flash on the Holga, with its coloured gels, as an external flash for my point-and-shoot digital, through the very professional method of holding up both cameras and trying to hit both shutters in sync. Everyone was very patient in allowing me to shoot them three, four or five times before managing to have the digital camera and the flash go off simultaneously. I’ve got to get a better setup, but so far, this is fun. And everything looks better when the flash and the photo don’t come from the same perspective.

Posted by jodi on August 20, 2010 at 1.30pm
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mixed messages

August 1, 2010

Posted by jodi on August 1, 2010 at 6.18am
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inspiration

July 24, 2010

We’re thinking of tearing down the ramshackle pressure-treated lumber fence along the back of our property and replacing it with a low wall of screen block, then replacing the 3 or 4 trees that would have to come out in order to do such a job with redbuds, dogwood and sumac. It’s a lovely picture I keep in my mind every time I gaze out the back door at our unruly, chest-high meadow of a backyard with its waiting-to-be-hauled-to-the-dump heap of crap at the back.

This screen block wall was spotted while walking around Chicago’s Little India neighbourhood last weekend. It’s a pretty common block pattern you see a lot in institutional buildings of a certain era (the same pattern as the Monastery I photographed so often while living in North Bay), only the blocks are about half the size and made of terra cotta instead of concrete. I don’t know if you can even still get this kind of block but it’s awfully pretty. Especially with the rows of block offset instead of jack-on-jack like you usually see (as in the Monastery). Just close your eyes, forget about the half-finished porch, and all of the scotch thistles that need to be uprooted right where the patio is going to be, and the long grass and the infant trees coming up everywhere and the falling-down fence and the awful mulberry tree and the pile of scrap wood to be cleaned up, and imagine cool filtered light and delicate redbud branches arching out over this wall (only lower). Lovely.