Category: On This Day

  • One of those things that come with having film photography as a hobby in the 2020s is that you are very much aware that the variety of films on the market today is a small subset of what was once on offer. And while I wrinkle my nose over older enthusiasts who dismiss the film…

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  • I’m referring to the biggest of the spotlights, the sun! It was a little bit of a challenge for Kathleen and I to trust that our “visitors” – the “visitors” we sought distance from in Nova Scotia that winter – were well and truly gone. Aside from their regular commitments to return, they would invariably…

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  • Rescanning these rolls was a little bit of an emotional adventure, I have to admit. I had only vaguely remembered going on this walk. It was fairly early on into COVID-19 and everything was, well, just. so. quiet. And uncomfortable. Traffic had disappeared and most people did too. The silence stood out. But what stood…

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  • There’s something to the afternoon light in March that fills my mind with promise. Promise of Spring, even if we’re bound to have a few of winter’s last gasps along the way. The photos today – made on this day in 2023 – are from such a bright March day. The sun was bright, the…

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  • Whenever I dig back into past photos, the route taken reminds me what we were up to. In the case of this post – and “on this day” from 2025 – we were definitely out to get cat food and groceries. What’s nice about revisiting this roll is not so much the content (we haunt…

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