Bitter Grounds Magazine

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More Toronto wall art – bright city lights

Mar 8, 2019 | photos & digital art

I've been digging through older photos, looking for something a bit cheery to blow away the winter blues. My mom often reads through Bitter Grounds, offering ideas and advice. Around Christmas she looked over her glasses at me (never a good thing) and told me to...

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International Bee Day is coming

Feb 8, 2019 | photos & digital art

Bees are fun to watch and don’t get me get started on the whole “beneficial bug” thing. You might be here for hours. I grew up surrounded by people who would kill any bee that dared buzz near them or drench their gardens in shocking amounts of pesticides. Hopefully...

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PT 1 – I sacrificed my espresso on the altar of Left Field’s oatmeal ale

Jul 8, 2018

I wandered back down to Boxcar Social for an espresso fix and ended up sipping a Left Field Brewery Oatmeal Brown Ale. No idea why, but it seems to fit the lazy, warm Sunday. So here I sit, with a stack of photos to rifle through, a cold ale and my pen & notebook....

Harbourfront visit – all my ducks in a row … and a goose and gull too.

Jun 12, 2018

The original title was going to be Harbourfront Expedition part 2 - waterfowl, but once I wrote it out, it sounded like a bad B Hollywood horror flick. Ducks in a row is much better. There weren't a lot floating around when I went down on Friday. Saw many more back...

Harbourfront expedition & some awesome photos

Jun 11, 2018

Ok, I'm biased. I think the photos from my Friday trip to Toronto's Harbourfront are pretty good. Lots of great landscape and activity to play around with and the weather was wonderful. The last time I was down at the Harbourfront, I nearly froze my tail feathers...

It’s here! Nik Collection 2018 by DxO

Jun 6, 2018

When DxO acquired Photoshop plugin suite Nik from Google (read about it here), they said they were working on a full update for the package and would hopefully release it sometime in 2018. Well, it's here -> NIK COLLECTION 2018 BY DxO. The 7 plugins sell for $69,...

Photographing The Esplanade Toronto

Jun 4, 2018

Picking up where I left off last week, I headed down to The Esplande and Front to test out my focus and sharpness skills. I took over 400 shots and had a handful that pleased me. The exercise was to work on colour balance, overall focus and sharpness of the subject....