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Chasing Rainbows and Pots of Gold – Ridge Road, Ottawa

Chasing Rainbows and Pots of Gold – Ridge Road, Ottawa After photographing Chickadees in Nepean, I headed east toward Mer Bleue Bog. It was one of those strange days weatherwise, a bit of sun, a lot of clouds, intermittent rain … Continue reading

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Chickadees and More: Sarsaparilla Trail, Ottawa

Chickadees and More: Sarsaparilla Trail, Ottawa Recent rains and high winds have stripped many of the trees of their Autumn colours. That hasn’t stopped people coming out to the Sarsaparilla Trail in Ottawa’s Greenbelt and sticking out their hands for … Continue reading

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Remic Rapids – Drummers and Fire Dancers

Remic Rapids, Ottawa After spending the day photographing Fall colours at Luskville Falls in Quebec and driving around in my mother’s new Volvo C70 convertible with the roof down in beautiful Fall weather, I joined a few friends at Remic … Continue reading

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Carleton University’s Annual Butterfly Show, October 1-10, 2011

Carleton University’s Annual Butterfly Show, October 1-10, 2011 Well, it is that time of year again. Carleton University’s Biology Department opens their greenhouse doors to the public this weekend for the popular annual live Butterfly Show. The butterflies fly free … Continue reading

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Mer Bleue Bog, Ottawa, Ontario

Mer Bleue Bog, Ottawa, Ontario It was very foggy when I left my home and headed east across the city to Mer Bleue Bog (Location). I was rather hoping that I would get there and be able to photograph some … Continue reading

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Ottawa Fat Cats vs. Brantford Red Socks

Ottawa Fat Cats vs. Brantford Red Socks Currently Ottawa’s only Professional Baseball team, the Fat Cats were taking on the Brantford Red Socks for this year’s championship. It’s the forth game in the Payoff series I was fortunate to get … Continue reading

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Hand Fasting Wedding at the Mediæval Fair in Osgoode, Ontario – 9th July 2011

Hand Fasting Wedding at the Mediæval Fair in Osgoode For the third year in a row, Graeme and I have had fun photographing the activities of the Mediæval Fair at Osgoode, Ontario. (Location) This year was a special year for … Continue reading

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BOLO Night in Ottawa

July 7th, 2011 – Did something different tonight. Did something really different tonight. Hung out in a basement room with a hundred women and ten guys. Possible rounding error but you get the picture. Yes, you read right. Members of … Continue reading

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Noctilucent Clouds Over Ottawa

Noctilucent Clouds Over Ottawa Its not often you get a phone call at 4am saying “Look Up”, but today I did and it was for quite a sight! Apparently some ultra high level clouds (+75km up) were hovering above Ottawa … Continue reading

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Fireworks in Kanata – Canada Day 2011

It was an interesting way to spend Canada Day.  First, there was the not so easy task of milling around Parliament Hill trying to see and then maybe photograph royalty.  Then I returned to Kanata and enjoyed listening to and … Continue reading

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