Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand
…Can there be any place more “Grand”. Photo Essay to follow…
…dedicated to the memory of Nelson Mandela…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light!
…The always brilliant annual “Lights of Hope” display adorning the face of St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver…
…with 10 kilometers of lights built entirely by volunteers for the Hospital Foundation’s annual fundraising campaign…
This great hospital was founded in 1894 and over the past one hundred and twenty years its dedicated, compassionate and outstanding staff have provided simply the best health care to millions…
…and although the lights will be turned on for the last time on January 6th, the legacy of hope, dedication, skill and excellence will continue each and every day of the year. If you would like to learn more about the campaign visit the Foundation’s website: http://www.helpstpauls.com/lights-of-hope/lights-of-hope-display/ …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected 2
…Couldn’t resist catching the last post for “Unexpected” with “One for the road”…
First iPad Paintings
…inspired by the master, David Hockney…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected
…The abstract beauty created by the colors reflected and refracted in this fountain of water was completely unexpected…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers 2
…Layers of snow blanket Whistler Mountain but come summer the slopes are bare and there is the joy of hiking the high alpine meadows…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers or Birth of a Painting
…Every painting tells a story and no more so than in the layers that lie beneath the finished work. My painting entitled Cypress Alleyway was inspired by a visit to Castello di Reschio in Umbria and a photograph I took of that glorious Italian landscape…
…Back home in my studio a canvas was stretched and gessoed, a charcoal sketch developed, loose thin layers of acrylic paint applied until, finally…
…I could feel the warmth of that Umbrian sun and I knew that I had arrived…
Birthday Bouquet
…A beautiful birthday bouquet and card for my “girl with a pearl earring”, my beautiful wife of nearly forty years. Happy Birthday…
