Ravages of Time

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over. [Paul J. Meyer]

God has given me this day to use it as I will. I can waste it - or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it ! [Heartsill Wilson]

If you have the time, click on the link below the photos, kick back, and listen for a few minutes ... 

(I will be 'out of the office' for a few days as we travel south - I hope to catch up with y'all by the end of the week)

Savour the season

"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o'er the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."
(A Childrens' Song of the 1880's)

"A tangerine and russet cascade
Of kaleidoscopic leaves
Creates a tapestry of autumn magic
Upon the emerald carpet of fading summer."
(Judith A. Lindberg, Shades of Autumn)

You might want to listen to this while you view the photos ...

click on images for a better view

(Day 365) It's TIME

There seems to be something magical or mystical about the midnight hour on the eve of New Year. The clock turns over a new hour, new day, new month, new year, and sometimes even a new millennium. There's something refreshing about closing the chapter on the year gone by, and seeing all the new possibilities in the year just started.

For me, and many fellow bloggers, today marks the last day for our Project 365. We set out exactly 365 days ago to make some photos every day of the year and post (at least one of) them on our blogs. It's been an exciting time, an exasperating time, and a time full of learning. It's now also a time of relief (unless some out there are going to start on year 2 or 3 or 12 !). No more daily thoughts about what to shoot, and to set aside time to do so once a subject is chosen. It feels great to have successfully achieved this goal. It's not for the faint of heart, but if you're interested in learning a lot more about photography, I recommend it.

As for what I plan to do now, ideas are still floating around in my head. I've promised my wife (and myself) not to do another 365 project. I'll put down a few thoughts on what it was like and what I learned from it in a near future post. I do intend to maintain this blog, but without the promise of shooting daily. I will continue to visit fellow bloggers. And I will make/take time to continue with my photography.


In the meantime, I wish all of you health, happiness, and a great deal of pleasure in your photographic endeavours in 2011.


H A P P Y   N E W   Y E A R !!!


(18-55mm  f5.6  1 sec  ISO400)

(Day 96) A moment in time

Aren't there times when you'd really like the moment to never end ? You want to freeze everything and not have anything change, perhaps because it's the perfect moment. It could be when you're with someone, when you see a most beautiful scene, when you have that perfect moment of joy ...

Of course, time moves onward and so does life. But just for a moment today, time stopped, even if it was only for 0.0005 seconds ...

(70-200mm  f8  1/2000 sec  ISO1600)

(Day 89) The wheels of time

We've been through a whirlwind of emotions over this past week. There have been times of great sadness and sense of loss, but also of happiness and joy. There have been times of solitude and reflection and times of shared laughter among family and friends - many opportunities to provide and receive support.

As I looked around the hall after the memorial service today it struck me that I was seeing the wheels of time moving relentlessly forward. I saw before me the older generation, those of my mother-in-law's age, who will likely also not outlive this new decade. Then there was the next generation - those whose children were now adults themselves and some of them who in turn were now having children. As time takes the older generation, a new generation is being ushered in.

As I thought about this I knew which photo I needed to find in my archives.

Note: although I followed the ABC principle, circumstances prevented me from using my camera for the past couple of days; hopefully I'll be back behind the lens shortly. In the meantime I'm relying on my archives.

(60mm  f11  2 sec  ISO200)