Early spring

Little is more enjoyable than an early spring. The cold subsides, the sun shows more of itself with more powerful rays. Winter, however is still not that far away and Old Man Winter can still shake out some last snowflakes from his pockets, now and then.

Male wood duck (Aix Sponsa)

But overall, the warmer weather is gaining. Ice is melting, migrant birds return to their summer grounds. All to be

Textures

An often forgotten theme in photography is textures. Textures are all around us, even if we don’t pay attention to them. I have often been asked why I was photographing a wall, head on.

Sods

Well, that wall happened to have some very interesting texture. I am no longer doing 3D modelling, so I am not using these textures anymore to dress up some complex object, but

Storm II

By now we all understand that the sun is approaching its solar maximum of this 11 year cycle. We also know that this goes with more and more interesting Aurorae. Auroras, for those who want to keep it in English.

Aurora

But does that mean that we now get to see these Northern Lights every evening? Nope, most of the time they remain as elusive as the Yeti. So, waiting is the Maître Mot…

Varying pleasures

Monotony is the bane of creativity. You simply cannot create anything new if nothing changes in your environment. Everybody knows that and seemingly this applies to everyone.

Up North

Some people don’t need variation to be creative, they can continue to write, work or create for years on end without anything changing in their lives. Or at least that’s what they think. Let’s

A warm walk

When it is winter, walks outside are mostly very refreshing, at least here in Winnipeg. Lately, however, winter seems to have left. Even the Canadian Geese are already back.

Portrait

It seems we saw them out only a few weeks ago. In reality, that was late October. The winter has been soft, this year. Leaving us with