Author Archives: aidan
Rally of the Tall Pines
Back in late November, I volunteered, along with two of my brother-inlaws to perform some crowd control duties at the Rally of the Tall Pines. One of the largest Rally events in North America, this year was it’s biggest yet with 60 entries. I had been to a rally before, but one on a much [...]
Photography and truth
Yesterday evening I attended a presentation by Colin Smith from Adobe. The main topic was how to use Photoshop to manipulate photos to achieve the desired result. If you have reviewed my gallery, you can see in many images that some post processing (editing images with software) has been performed. Some in the photographic world [...]
Getting ready for winter
I was heading out to the hardware store last night and noticed a house on my street had its Christmas lights on. Any other year I would groan that putting your Christmas lights on during the first week of November is just too early. However, this year feels different. Perhaps it’s the idea of [...]
Airport
Airports have always been interesting for me since my youth. For a few years during college I worked at Toronto’s Pearson airport for Group 4 security. I got to see first hand the diversity of people travelling to and from Toronto – one of the cities great attributes. For many airports can represent the [...]
Elora
What to do on a beautiful fall evening? How about visiting one of Ontario’s many heritage places like Elora! That’s what my wife, daughter and I did a few weeks ago and as an alternative to sitting on the couch, we were all glad we went. The gorge at Elora is the towns most notable [...]