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My interest in photography is growing

September 6, 2007 by Tricia

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For some very strange reason I really don’t like taking photos of people. Perhaps it’s because people tend to pose for photos and I simply don’t like posed photos?

I do like this photo that I took of Chris while on the boat cruise this past Saturday.

I’d been taking photos of the city skyline and the sunset as he stood beside me on the upper deck of the boat. I turned and saw him standing at the rail with a view of the lake and the glow of the setting sun upon him and decided to take a photo.

After going to see my nephews exhibit at the Edward Day Gallery on Tuesday, and taking into consideration my growing interest and involvement in photography I’ve been thinking of taking some photography courses. Perhaps even attending the Brooks Institute of Photography or another reputable photography institute.

I’ll have to do some research and look into how long a course that I might be interesting in would take to complete, but I am interested in improving my photography skills and perhaps pursuing it as a career.





Filed Under: Art, Culture, Entertainment, Hobbies, Photography, Toronto Tagged With: career, Chris, course, courses, gallery, interest, interesting, Nephew, photo, photograph, Photography, photos, style, sunset, Toronto

The Sun Sets over Toronto

September 5, 2007 by Tricia

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Is that not a postcard worthy photo? I took that picture while on the boat cruise on Saturday night. The evening was lovely and the sun setting over Toronto was absolutely gorgeous.

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I think next to my love of gardening and roses, gazing at beautiful sunsets is one of my most favorite things.

It was kind of like Deja Vu when I was on the boats deck.

I’d been inside the boat in the dinning room and I noticed that the sun was going to set soon so Chris and I went up on the deck to take some photos and just look at the scenery.

I suddenly realized while on the boat that all the beautiful postcard photos of our cityscape must have been taken while on a boat on the lake. It makes sense of course, but I’d never thought of it before. It was so beautiful.

Filed Under: Canada, Dining and Restaurants, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: beautiful, boats, Chris, garden, Love, night, photos, picture, roses, Saturday, sunset, Toronto, Wordless Wednesday

Uploading photos is taking forever!

September 5, 2007 by Tricia

I took so many photos over the weekend! I didn’t check my folders when I uploaded the photos from camera to computer but I think there must be 500 new photos!

I’ve spent the evening as I’ve worked on the computer doing other things – like catching up on blog posts, uploading the best of the photos to my flickr account. I generally just use a link to my photo on flickr when I add photos to my posts. It’s easier and doesn’t take up space on my hosting account.

The trouble is it’s slow going. My photos are large so they take a long time to upload! I think I’ve been uploading photos since at least 10 p.m. and it’s now after 5 a.m. That’s a lot of big photos!

Do you upload your photos to a free hosting account so that you can share them or use them in your blog posts?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation Tagged With: account, blog, blog posts, camera, computer, free, hosting, hosting account, large file size, photos, slow, uploading photos, weekend

Beautiful Hibiscus

September 4, 2007 by Tricia

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I just love hibiscus flowers. They are so large and colorful. I love the vibrant peachy orange of this one.

For years we grew a tall hibiscus tree indoors in our apartment, but when we moved to the house it died on us. Since then I think I’ve only managed to keep smaller tropical hibiscus plants alive for about two years at the most. Naturally I keep the hibiscus outdoors in the summer and then bring it in towards the end of September when it begins to get cooler during the day and night.

I think this year I’m going to get another humidifier for our house, but the new humidifier will just be in our spare bedroom where we keep our tropical plants during the winter months. The extra moisture in the air should help. I hope!

If you have success keeping hibiscus and other tropical indoor during the cold winter months I’d love to hear how you do it. Maybe one of your tips will work for me.

BTW sorry that my Green Thumb Sunday post is so late. I’ve had a whirlwind of a weekend. See the next post!

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: cold, color, cool, flower, flowers, garden, Green Thumb Sunday, help, hibiscus flowers, hot, house, humid, keeping hibiscus indoors, manage, over wintering hibiscus, photo, plants, Summer, winter

Just a couple of photos

August 28, 2007 by Tricia

Yesterday I noticed that one of my roses that I’d yet to photograph was blooming. We had a guest over for several hours yesterday so I didn’t photograph the flower, however, a little while ago I decided to go out to my garden and take a photo of the flower.

Just a couple of photos … yeah right.

I was outside for an hour and ten minutes. Guess how many photos I took of the many flowers in my garden? About 300!

How many people do you know that can take that many photos in a little over an hour? That’s five pictures per minute! Maybe more than that when you take away photo set up and cleaning lens time. No wonder I’m a little tired out after my garden adventure!

Now the tedious task of uploading them to the computer and cropping a few of them begins …

Filed Under: Art, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: 300 photos, bloom, cleaning, computer, cropping, digital camera, five photos per minute, flower, flowers, garden, guest, leaves, lens, my garden, photo, photograph, photos, picture, pictures, plants, Red, rose, rose blooming, roses, special rose, take photos, tedious, time, tired, took photos

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