Year: 2016

This shot is a crop that attracted my attention during post-processing.  I liked the distortions introduced by the long lens and how it obscured the details and left the shapes of things; exposing more pattern and texture, especially the snow. A softer view.  

I was leafing through a photo-history book of the area and came across a photograph of this place taken many years ago.  John Farwell has since passed on and his house and business are now idle.  I was attracted by the colours, the Pepsi Logo, the weather-beaten facing and then the name of the proprietor…

It was the white cars in front of the white building on a white day that first attracted my attention to this shot.  I framed the shot to centre the building.  Balance seemed to mix well with white. I wanted a portrait of the building. I liked the idea that independent grocery stores continue to operate;…

I took this shot because I liked the simplicity of the composition and the colours, notably the brightness of the red.

I took this shot because I liked the fence and it’s shadows that lead into the subject.