How on earth do you decide what lens to purchase? The glass you put on your camera will make or break your photos, so this is almost a more important decision than which camera to buy. First: the sooner you can get out of stock lenses, the better. The easiest, cheapest, and most versatile lens (hands down,…
An ode to my first professional camera, upon its demise: You were a long time in coming to me, the journey scattered with high school photo contests and college poli-sci text books. Your cousins the Pentax K-1000 and the Nikon D80 prepared me for the joy that was your whistles and bells, for the delight…
Will I someday become jaded to the beauty? Will I ignore the brilliant blues and greens that typify a British Columbia summer? Will I forget to breathe in the glory that is fresh mountain air? Will I see yet another mountain range and ignore it’s intricate design? Will I summit a peak and turn away,…
One year ago (almost exactly), I was emerging from my six weeks of hospitalization and embracing the beauty of life renewed after so many days of illness and so many surgeries and so many questions and so many doctors. In the aftermath of The Summer of Hospitals, my goal for Summer 2015 has been to…
Today is a gray day. Perfect for sitting on the couch, sipping tea, writing; all the better for remembering the fun of hiking Elk Mountain earlier this summer. After the sweat-dripping, muscle-burning, lung-bursting climb up the never-ending-hill, we sat at the peak and gazed in awe across the Fraser Valley, down to Cultus Lake, out…
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Frederick Douglass The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3: 22 – 24 With every attempt at elegance, we sat in the peace of high tea at O.Henry Hotel and sipped from fine china….
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