About Still SomewhatNorth... ^club

Another flickr user looking for an alternative.

I have varied interests and will try to photograph anything that catches my eye. I find it very relaxing to photograph flowers in public gardens.

As a lifetime automobile enthusiast, a show & shine is much like a flower garden too.

Although my tendency is to be fairly quiet, I will return comments as quickly as time allows. I prefer to offer and receive real human comments and/or observations - technical, general or anecdotal - about any photos to responses to any need for "quota-filling" in any form. Again, given time, I look at lots of photos whether in my contacts, groups or something I find by accident.

I am always happy to find that people have seen my photos.

My original flickr profile is below. As my physical location has not changed, here I'm Still SomewhatNorth.

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2010 01 01

Why SomewhatNorth? I live quite close to 53 38'N and 113 38'W which is near the north west edge of the most northerly large (~1 million) metropolitan area in North America. It is also one of the few cities in Canada more than 300 km from the US border. At an elevation of ~670 metres (~2200 ft) we live in a landscape that can be "harsh and unforgiving" (to quote Connie Kaldor) and envision ourselves on the edge of the tundra. In the grand scheme of things we are about as far north as Manchester, Hamburg or Minsk. In other words only somewhat north.

At the urging of some co-workers, I picked up my trusty Pentax ME again in the spring of 2006 after about 20 years away from taking pictures. Having upgraded a little, I now use a Super Program most of the time and occasionally a SF1N.

As I near retirement I have found, to my surprise, that there is a great deal of pleasure to be found roaming around in public gardens taking pictures of flowers. Many other things catch my eye as well.

I shoot film exclusively, develop and scan commercially to CD, manipulate and crop with digiKam and occasionally GIMP and print comparatively few pictures.

Update 2011 03: Picked up a Pentax Optio I-10 point & shoot digital to see what it might do.

Further update 2011 05: Picked up a Pentax K-x DSLR to continue my exploration of digital. I like some of the results from the point & shoot but do not like not having a view through the lens.

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Summer 2013 moved some photos over to Ipernity. Winter 2013/14 may see many more moved over.

Interests:

A life-long wanderer, photography, music, food, family life

Favorite music and artists:

swing, jazz, blues, R&B, folk, Americana

Jimmie Lunceford, Mildred Bailey, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Dinah Washington, Lightnin' Hopkins, Karin Allyson, Andy Bey, June Tabor, Buddy Miller, Rosanne Cash among many others.