Year: 2023
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Happy Faces
In a sun-drenched meadow, a curious sight awaited me: a sunflower, its face grinning from ear to leafy ear with a cheerful expression that would rival the happiest of clowns. It was as if it knew a joke that the rest of the plant kingdom hadn’t quite caught onto. Its golden face gleamed with botanical…
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Reflections on a Sunflower Field
Standing in a field of sunflowers, meticulously organized in straight lines, their radiant faces all turned one way, I found it impossible not to be struck with awe. The fields I wandered were clearly cultivated by human hands, but intriguingly, the flowers themselves chose an orientation. They all faced east, but why east? Their agreement…
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The Greenbelt
in: Documentary
The Greenbelt around Toronto refers to a protected area of green space, farmland, forests, wetlands, and watersheds, located in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is the world’s largest Greenbelt, covering approximately 2 million acres of land. The Greenbelt was created in 2005 to protect vulnerable greenspaces and agricultural land from urban sprawl. The Greenbelt is designed…
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Lawn Bowling
in: Photography
In the sizzling heart of a summer’s August day, when even the trees had lost their energy to sway, I visited a green, the place where Lawn bowling is played. This game is not for the faint of heart, nor for those seeking the rough and tumble engagement of football or the swift finesse of…
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The Secret Purpose of a BBQ
In the subdued glow of the charcoal, as it yearns to be stirred within its confines of a BBQ, one might underestimate the significance of such an act. This ritual of tending to the smouldering nuggets, at first glance, might strike the observer as nothing more than a trite domestic chore. Yet, beneath the commonplace…