Month October 2018

Green House Gases (GHG)

A Conference Board of Canada report notes that Canada is one of the world’s largest per capita GHG emitters, ranking 15th out of 17 OECD countries (1 being the best). The output averaged for an individual Canadian is just over…

Nostalgia

Rooted in a term for homesickness, the definition of nostalgia offered by the OED is a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past. As I recently worked my way through a century of family photo albums, few of…

Landscape: Studium and Punctum

2020-07 Monuments Project, Building, Cityscape, Compositional Features, Concept, Content, Event, Event - Travel, Image type, Monument, Nature, Other, Palm Tree, Person, Plant, Projects, Punctum, Thing, Travel, Wood

Most photographs will have elements within them that attract the eye. Those that stand out (studium) are often the subject of the image. In contrast, those details easily overlooked are sometimes referred to as punctum. But, to be truly considered…

Remnants

Things co-exist in both the present and the time of their creation. In doing so they tell us something about both. As a thing ages, its material decays, and eventually reverts back into the soil. Not all at once; some…