Click here for more Westmount photos. Wow! I forgot how great it feels to have your work published. One of my photographs (above) appears in the latest edition of Grand magazine , a lifestyle magazine covering Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada -- my first good reason for feeling "grand". Before I get too far along, I … Continue reading 3 good reasons for this Grand feeling
A Year in the Making
Yes, a year in the making! How can it take that long to enshrine a tree root in a concrete arch? Create a cardboard form; cover it with a chicken-wire armature; apply a 2 cm. layer of mortar mix concrete; add a finishing coat white Portland cement; polish it with a rotary sanding disk; and … Continue reading A Year in the Making
Canada Day Rituals
Canada Day Garden Tour, that's what we've been doing for 10 years now. My spouse and I have being getting together with two couples -- long-time friends -- on a self congratulatory tour of our horticultural exploits. It has also turned into a movable feast starting with breakfast mid-morning and ending with a dessert course … Continue reading Canada Day Rituals
Proximity to greatness begs response
It amazes me how proximity to great art inspires, perhaps requires one to respond, to dig deep, to examine one's own emotions and motivations for making art.
Auto Parts Winter Evening
partsource_evening Originally uploaded by dwightstorring I can feel the cold seeping into my feet through the soles of my boots as I stand in a snowbank in Bancorft, Ontario. The store is surprisingly inviting and cozy with the rock face looming just behind it, but its jaundiced presence – literal and figurative – puts me … Continue reading Auto Parts Winter Evening
Out of focus
colour-form2 Originally uploaded by dwightstorring What if the intention of the camera was to capture colour and form rather than replicate three dimensional objects on a two dimensional medium? This set of images is what I think it might look like if we changed the camera's character. I've been intentionally making images out of focus … Continue reading Out of focus
Visually Speaking 