The time has finally come for this year's leaves to escape the bud. It's been over a month since the snow disappeared, and the landscape has looked brown and dead. Now at last, a hue of green is returning

The Kneeling Pawn

A maple sapling spreads its leaves on a cool, crisp, spring afternoon.

Here's an opening leaf I found on a sapling by the side of the road, while out for a walk yesterday. I love the red colours. It was growing in a woodland area in southern Quebec. Can anyone identify the

Spring has finally come to my neck of the woods. Within the past few days, the tree buds have started opening. Here are a couple of shots I got today of this year's leaves in their infancy.

Moss on a rock looks like a miniature forest.

Spring in the Forest

This bridge addition exercise was done as a part of my thesis in architecture. The Prince of Wales Bridge is an abandoned railway bridge in Ottawa, and my thesis proposes to rehabilitate it for commuter

I'm working on a train station design for my thesis in architecture. Here's a model I built of the project in progress. The tectonics are inspired by traditional canoe construction, and the project tries

This creek has been tamed and made to flow in a straight line, between concrete barriers painted yellow. Yet the ripples of its flow are dynamic and unpredictable enough to blur into milk through the camera

One of the later film cameras, released by Pentax in 1997. It's got a lot of the features we still use today, such as autofocus, aperture priority, shutter priority, timer and burst modes, and a hot shoe.

I inherited this golf club from my great uncle. It hasn't been used much recently, but I thought I'd photograph it.

Here's a 3-month exposure taken with a homemade pinhole camera. I placed a piece of film in an empty beer can, sealed up all openings, poked a pinhole, and mounted it to a fencepost. The bright arcs are

Human civilization has been paused, but the rivers continue to flow. Get out and photograph them.

This was shot with the Pentax K-x and a vintage piece of glass. I used a Super-Danubia 80-205mm 1:4.5, and I think this shot was taken at 200mm and f/22. Although this particular lens is rather obscure,

Down We Go

Trees grow in the funniest places. This one is trying to put down its roots in a rock precariously close to a rushing waterfall. I wonder if it will survive the spring flooding.

Shot with the Fujifilm X-T1 and Zeiss 12mm 1:2.8 at Hog's Back Falls in Ottawa, Ontario. A place worth checking out if you're in the area.

This is Hog's Back waterfall, in Ottawa, Ontario. The snow formation on the left is strange and interesting, with the built-up layers clearly visible.

A log cabin in the woods would be a good place to be at a time like this.