What we’re gonna do right here is go back, back into time… that’s what it felt like when I visited Val-Jalbert earlier this month. The historic village of Val-Jalbert is the best preserved ghost town in Canada, abandoned in 1927 when the pulp factory closed shop and the employees had to leave their homes. Still about 70 buildings remain, as well as part of the factory.. the place is quite surreal, but really worth the detour! There is some (french-language […]
Recently went on a 4-day trip to New York and one stop we made was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.. If you haven’t been yet, and you like art and/or history, make sure to put it on your ‘to-do’ list next time you go to New York! Here are some pictures I took there.. Copyright probably belongs to the Met and/or the owner of the work (Three Graces is from a private collection) This last one is Ganesh.. the […]
A couple of weeks ago I took some pictures at a corporate event. As dinner started, a group performed some ritual Mayan (?) dance involving fire.. The dance and the performers were great to look at, even with one eye closed and the other looking through the viewfinder.. here are some of the pictures… from Lumendipity Photography Blog – www.lumendipity.com/blog
The Botanical Gardens in Montreal have an exposition on butterflies at the moment, called Butterflies go free, which I went to see today.. Although there are hundreds of butterflies flying around in the greenhouse, it’s not the ideal circumstances to take pictures, with tons of people bumping into you as you’re standing in line from entrance to exit. Oh well, it was to be expected on a Sunday morning.. Still a very nice experience. The high key image is of […]
There are a couple of ongoing themes I’m working on: now and then I add a picture to the theme and one day it will be a series of photographs that tell a story.. One of these themes is windows and doors, and I wanted to upload some entries here as a preview.. Windows can be open, closed, mysterious, sad, promising better things ahead, hiding bad memories inside.. what inspires me is the contrast, not necessarily in lighting, but in […]
Just a short post to share an image I took last weekend.. As you can see, we’ve had some more snow…– Bench in Snow – from Lumendipity Photography Blog – www.lumendipity.com/blog