Christmas Eve, and I’m at work 🙁It rained all yesterday and washed away a lot of the snow. Then it froze overnight so it’s very slippy out. Flurries threatened for this afternoon. That’s all we need. Snow on top of ice.It’s lunchtime now so I’m off to the Barley Mow Continue Reading
Photo Session
Natalie came round today to show me what she’d learned at a recent lighting lesson with a local photographer. We set up the lights. Main was fairly low, bounced into umbrella with the light set horizontal and positioned to the side of the subject. Fill light was also horizontal, bounced Continue Reading
A Lazy Day
A lazy day which starts with a trip to the gym 🙂Get up, watched Eastenders, went to the Post Office, came back, ate French Onion Soup and went to the gym for 2pm.Tip: Don’t eat French Onion Soup before going to the gym. It makes you thirsty!Had to make a Continue Reading
Christmas shopping
I had a few items to pick up at lunchtime today. One of them being a laminated print from Costco. Horrors! The parking lot was insane! I’m glad I only had to go to the photodesk to pickup and not do any shopping in that place. The thought of the Continue Reading
Published!
So Indy has her photo in the Ottawa Citizen today. This one. Looks good in print! Already had one e-mail from a friend who was obviously up and reading the paper before I was. A work colleague spotted it too and was asking me about Belgian Shepherds.It’s the works Christmas Continue Reading
Shoegazing
Don’t believe it. It’s snowing again! When will it ever stop! Sky is full and it’s really grey. Think I’ll be leaving work early this afternoon. Went out for a curry at lunchtime with Paul and a couple of his colleagues (ex colleagues he used to work with until November). Continue Reading
More Snow
It’s snowing again. Though they just call it “flurries”. Still pretty cold. Cold enough for me to want to go and buy some new boots. I’m looking out of my office window at the roads below, thinking about whether I want to venture out at all. Actually, I will have Continue Reading
The day after the storm
Sunny but cold. The agility equipment is almost buried. The jumps with the top bar at 26″ show how deep the snow is. The upside – the wind isn’t as fierce. It’s still cold at around -12C but the sun is shining. Makes all the difference!
The snow storm
So we had a big snowstorm here in Ottawa. A couple of foot of snow fell during the day. This is the view from out of the front door. Pretty grey looking!The dogs had lots of fun playing in the snow, but us humans didn’t have as much fun as Continue Reading