VINTAGE

 One Word Sunday

Dundas West, Toronto ON

Point Your Camera Upwards

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge


John - Brooklyn NY

Jackie - New York

Jackie - ??

John - Moscow Russia

Focus

Dutch's Tuesday Photo Challenge


I am known for never doing anything without my camera, DSLR or my phone. In fact, John is almost as bad as me!!

Uluru Australia.

From the sublime to the ridiculous!

I snuck (I know, not a word!) this snap in Mazatlan of two tourists from a visiting cruise ship.

But no, I hope we don't look like this on our travels!

Or how about these tourists in Singapore.

Dublin Ireland

This is my all time favourite focus shot, in Bratislava, Slovakia.

John focused on me and my pal.

John, Moscow Russia.

If I ever got a tattoo, Yulara Australia.

Viewpoint

One Word Sunday



July 2017 - Toronto ON

Family Camera exhibit at Royal Ontario Museum

18 November:     Viewpoint

Foto Tunes

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme. 

June 2018 - Toronto ON

Glimpse Of Love - Song by Franz Ferdinand

Lyrics

Won't someone
Bring, bring me just a glimpse of love
Love love

Love is gonna come as a photographer
Yes, a photographer, yeah yeah

I need love

So someone better bring me a photographer
Yes, a photographer, yeah

Do You See What I See?

Six Word Saturday


October 2017 - Toronto ON

CDP Monthly Theme - Photographing the Photographer

This month's theme  Linking up with City Daily Photo.

I don't like having my picture taken, I would much rather be behind my camera.

John often takes photos of me photographing things, this is one of my favourites.

In Bratislava Slovakia.

Tuesday Treasures

Pictorial Tuesday   Tom hosts Tuesday's Treasures.

July 2017 - Toronto ON

We visited several temporary exhibits at the AGO last week.
Out of the Depths
The Evidence Room

We also enjoyed
 The Family Camera
The Family Camera invites you to see family photographs differently. Tucked away in a box, framed on the wall, or saved to the cloud, personal photos are all around us in abundance. For Canadians, family photographs are often linked to stories of migration. Whether recent or in the distant past, over short or long distances, international or even within Canada, photographs play an important role in these experiences. From departures and arrivals to everyday moments and milestones, they capture these journeys and keep us connected; even the family photos that are lost or destroyed along the way can still linger in our imaginations.

The Living Room presents the stories of three individual participants through their family photography, situated within an immersive installation that includes a range of artifacts and technologies. Even the photos shown in the windows reflect the outside scenes related to the stories.

Items in a drawer in the living room.

The View-Master system was introduced in 1939, four years after the advent of Kodachrome color film made the use of small high-quality photographic color images practical. Tourist attraction and travel views predominated in View-Master's early lists of available reels, most of which were meant to be interesting to users of all ages.

There were so many stories told through these family albums. There were albums from so many immigrant families.

In the 1950s, the Herbert George Company of Chicago, Illinois produced an official Girl Scout camera. Many Boy Scout cameras were produced throughout the mid-1900s, but few models were made for the female scouts. This easy-use 620 box style camera used an eye-level viewfinder and featured the Girl Scout logo on its faceplate.

Vintage Kodak Christmas ads.

Loved this display! Girls and their dolls.

Proudly showing photos of gay weddings here in Toronto.

Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture. Although the first residential facilities were established in New France, the term usually refers to the custodial schools established after 1880. Originally conceived by Christian churches and the Canadian government as an attempt to both educate and convert Indigenous youth and to integrate them into Canadian society, residential schools disrupted lives and communities, causing long-term problems among Indigenous peoples.

A school photo.
 

And we had fun playing around with the mirrored display.

Urban Photograph

August 2009 - Philadelphia PA

“We don’t mind if you take a photograph/if you take a photograph/we don’t care that we’ll never be like you/that we’ll never be like you.”

October Scavenger Hunt

October 2015 - mostly in Palm Springs CA

I tried to find photos from our two weeks in Palm Springs for October's hunt. But I did have to go into my archives for a couple of challenges.


What have you found this month?
October's List


Question
Highway 10 near Palm Springs

Cream
Ice cream art in a gallery on El Paseo PS

Number
The sign for 29 Palms, a town near Joshua Tree Park.

Lattice
This was tough. But I took this photo at the La Quinta Historical Museum and I feel that the wood underneath the straw is a lattice.

Familiar
 Lucy is familiar to everyone.  And this statue is very familiar to us, we have been to Palm Springs many times and always make sure we drop by to see her.

Ring

Today
I chose last night's sunset from our condo in Toronto.

Down
Waiting for these guys to stop looking DOWN at Living Desert.

Writing
Writing on the walls at La Quinta Historical Museum.

Many
College of the Desert street fair

Broken
I had to go to my archives (June 2015) for this. A photo taken immediately after my camera hit the ceramic floor in our kitchen. The glass on the lens smashed into a million pieces but only one shard actually fell out hence the blur on the right.
I since had it mended.

Whatever you want
We took part in a photo shoot this week for a friend's photography website. Vintinner Photography

Linking to Greenthumb.