
November 10, 2007
A Study in Lines

November 9, 2007
Keep Your Face to the Sunshine . . . It's What Sunflowers Do - Helen Keller

September 30, 2007













On the date noted above, my Ovarian Cancer Support Group, in conjunction with OCC (Ovarian Cancer Canada), held a 25th Remission Celebratory Lunch in my honour. In April of 1982, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer - you're welcome to read about my ride with this insidious disease on the link posted. I was so happy that all my friends and family were on hand to help me celebrate this most auspicious milestone in my life. I would like to thank the following sponsors, who generously donated a door prize or food gift:
Capo Foods - Beautiful and delicious cake
Capo Foods - Beautiful and delicious cake
Loree Dubuque - Gorgeous hand-crafted necklace, bracelet, and earring set (in ovca teal)
Lisa Greenaway - Bath Set and Body Shop Nail Care Kit
Stephanie Holt - Unique and beautiful Hand-crafted Card Set, Bookmark, and Photo Frame
Canadale Nurseries - $25 Gift Certificate and Full-Colour Gardening Guide
Crabby Joes - $30 Gift Certificate
Cats Kaboose - $25 Gift Certificate
Arthur Voaden Secondary School - $30 Diva Spa Package (as well, Mrs. Franklin, the Cosmetology Dept. teacher, held a Spa Day on Oct. 1. Proceeds benefited OCC - thank you!!)
Bodies by Paton - T-shirt and 1-week Trial Membership
Tommy White Sports - Baseball Cap
The St. Thomas Photographic Guild - Paper and printing of images that I gave away as door prizes, as well as generous money gift donations for framing from various members
Forest of Flowers - 2 dozen of the most sweet-smelling, and beautiful red long-stem roses
Smith Fruit - Produce for Crudites and Fruit trays
Loblaws - $30 Gift Certificates, which were used to purchase food items
I would be remiss in not thanking the following people for helping me put on this event. Without their help and dedication, I would not have been able to pull it off: Vince, Diane, Kelly, Roger, Cathy, Pat, my husband Rob, my step-daughter Tatum, and of course, the great driving force behind it all, Harold. Our guest speakers were Doug Daye from Toastmasters, who gave a rousing and inspirational story about all the inspiring people who have impacted his life, and Dr. Monique Bertrand - Supervisor: Head, Division Gyn Oncology Ovarian Cancer Research, who gave an interesting talk about ovarian cancer statistics and the impact of them amongst the different demographic and geographic regions in Canada. I was so pleased with the day!! It was very successful. We were able to raise $647.57, portions of which were donated to OCC and The London Ovarian Cancer Support Group. I cannot say anything more about that, I am just so overwhelmed by the generosity and kindness of everyone!!!!!
Painting With Light

Finally!!!


These two images are my attempt at creative photography. I had about 10 minutes to shoot something of my grandchildren before my husband, Rob (anxious to get on the road back home from Brooklin, ON), really started to have kittens. He wanted to beat the Toronto traffic home before it got too busy. Goodness knows, I had all weekend to spend some leisurely time photographing Emily and Spencer. But I got so busy being a Grandma, I left all the photography to the last minute. My bad! I was getting direction from my daughter-in-law, Jennifer, as to how to pose the kids, and of course, they were just being themselves (uncooperative). Rob was by now having 50 fits, so my attempts were not really what I wanted. Oh, the drama of it all!
August 15, 2007
Photographic Scavenger Hunt
Our assignment, at Waterworks Park, this week, was to capture a set list of pictures - a Photographic Scavenger Hunt, if you will. The criteria was simple - find the following: An "S" shape; A reflection; An interesting piece of bark; A hole in something (can you guess what mine is? (And yes, I took it at the park last night!); Words; Something old-the car is kinda cliche, eh?; Something blue; Something sad; Something new - what better than a handsome couple who had just exchanged their wedding vows?; and Something alone - again, I took this one at the park, but in a most unusual place. As you can see, yes I did spend SOME of my time shooting, but also spent SOME of it chatting, gabbing, and talking, so didn't get enough time to shoot the last four scenes before it got too dark (and the lineup at Tim Horton's got tooooooo long - have to beat the crowd). Must FOCUS to task on hand (pun not intended). Maybe get out another night to shoot the other four.
August 13, 2007
Random Images of Summer




July 27, 2007
Introducing . . .



April 10, 2007
Digital Group Black & White Assignment


So, the assignment for this weeks Digital Group, was to choose a picture that we would like to convert to black and white using PhotoShop, Elements, or other digital manipulation software. Armed with some instructions, I used Channel Mixer on PhotoShop CS to convert this picture of my grandson, Spencer, to black and white. My son, Gary, his wife, Jenny, and Spencer visited us in August. We took them all out to dinner at Timbers Restaurant. Instead of placing a lemon in our water glasses, we were all given limes. Well, me being a nasty Grandma, I decided that it was time that Spencer was introduced to limes. We all laughed and laughed at the faces he was making, so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to click a few snaps of him with his sour face on. The son-of-a-gun of it was, he wouldn't let any of us take the "forbidden" fruit away from him, so he happily gummed away at it until all that was left was the rind. Silly, silly baby boy!! Grandma loves you sooooooooo much!!
April 6, 2007




April 2, 2007



March 29, 2007



March 27, 2007
Apres Personal Program



February 14, 2007
Yummmmmmm, Lychee!!

Oh, I got all excited last night after our Digital Club meeting at Grant's place. I had taken a few shots last week of lychee fruit (my VERY most favourite - to me, they're like potato chips - can't stop at one). Anyway tonight, with there not being anything good on the tube (is there really anymore?), I decided to spark up the ol' computer, and try some of the skills I learned last night. Now, my last night brain and my tonight brain have not yet meshed together, but I did manage to render this shot in PhotoShop. Thanx to a mag I borrowed from Jim, I learned the new skill of doing a two-photo effect. Not being fully versed in Photoshop (I keep saying that, don't I??), I probably added too much colour, and over-emphasized what shouldn't have been, but at least I'm experimenting with this most powerful tool - this is the end result. Yay! I managed to size the image for the web. Thanks Jim and Dan for that lesson, and thanks to Grant for the paper copy. So now, when I get a free minute, I'll have to do the same to the rest of my pics on this blog. Whew!
January 18, 2007
On Hold for Now

Well people, I've been busy working on my personal project for the Photography Guild, so pictures are not coming as fast and furious as I want. I also did not have an opportunity to photograph the lovely after-effects of our recent ice storm, because I could risk a slip and fall - damn this osteoporosis! Anyway, here's a shot I took a couple of nights ago, kind of a tease of one of the pics I have chosen to include in my personal project. Picasa is a wonderful software tool, I'm really enjoying using it. I hope to post more pics in the near future.
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