Finally, a bit of writing along with some new prints on the wall. There's been a few changes at Rhodo's... the print display has been changed, allowing for a few more prints to hang... and this year there are no themes set for the images.

To end 2022, I hung three prints from my courses with Andrea Sirois @andreabsirois . I've been taking her courses in Macro, Creative and Garden Photography over the COVID hunker downs... These shots are from the back garden on Spindrift... working with the macro lens to get some detail in the water drops and the leaves on the grasses.

November/December - Water on GrassThis one is shot with a prime 55 mm macro lens...

I've also been playing around with Intentional Camera Movement or ICM for short... not as easy as shaking the camera while shooting. The third print is the same grass at a different time in the season... I was trying to enhance the reds against the green background... still working on that technique...

November/December - A Bit of ICM Since there weren't any themes set for 2023 and because January isn't my favourite month of the year I decided to hang two prints from last summer... Cumberland is one of my favourite places to shoot... there are many opportunities there... along Dunsmuir St, the back alleys and the different ruins of the mine sites. These are constantly tagged with new graffiti and always make for new images.

These images were made at Mine Site #7 along the Puntledge River... in the first, I noticed the year, 1913, when the concrete was poured, and here it is some 100 plus years later and it's still standing, though you can see that the forest is coming back through the archway, and some of the tags are quite recent.

February/March - Mine #7 And the final print is from the same site but has a bit of whimsy from the artist... I like the face... it shows up at different sets of mine and sawmill ruins in the Comox Valley...

February/March - Looking to Nature #2 The prints are on display until March 30 at Rhodo's Cafe´in Courtenay https://rhodoscoffee.ca/