Old Album, Number Ten

This is the tenth album selected from my little collection of photos, arranged in more or less chronological order. Now I'm just pulling out slides from the 1970s, and selecting some that seem to go together. A couple of shots from rambles in Cape Breton in 1971. The crisp Gulf logo stands out against a… Read More

A quick trip to Saint-Pierre

Did you notice that Saint-Pierre & Miquelon may ask to join our Atlantic Bubble? That would be fun, if only to confuse much of the rest of Canada who don't realize we have a tiny bit of France only 19 km off of the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland. Guess we shouldn't be too smug because… Read More

Old Album, Number Nine

This is the ninth album selected from my little collection of photos, arranged in more or less chronological order. Now some examples that show how working at Sherbrooke Village made my photo taking more applied. Restoring the village buildings included things like deciding on painting schemes and adjusting landscapes. Suddenly I began to notice all… Read More

Old Album, Number Eight

This is the eighth album drawn from my little collection of photos, arranged in more or less chronological order. These photos were taken about 1970 -75, and all over the province.  This land is. . . Let's start with some landscapes. A particularly Canadian feeling to this moment on a morning in January 1973.  A… Read More

Old Album, Number Seven

This is the seventh album drawn from my little collection of photos, arranged in more or less chronological order. In 1972-73 I sojourned in the countryside. In 1972 I got a job at the Nova Scotia Museum. My first assignment was a year in Guysborough County working on the Sherbrooke Village restoration project. The previous… Read More

Back to the Future

Recently I've been posting albums of my 50-year-old photos. "My goodness, things have changed" is a consistent theme, and occasionally I'll reinforce that idea by including a Google Street View of the same location now. I'm a huge fan of Street View in general, but a particularly delightful feature allows you to see any earlier… Read More

Old Album, Number Six

This is the sixth album of my little collection of photos, arranged in more or less chronological order. Watch me self-consciously trying to be arty. By this album I'm getting a bit vague about exactly when each photo was taken, so let's say they all come from the very last years of the 60s and… Read More

Old Album, Number Five

This is the fifth album of my little collection of photos, arranged in more or less chronological order. A change of pace and an introduction to the period where photography changes my life.  Today photos are so sharable and public, but the photos in my previous albums were taken on solitary rambles and only started… Read More

Old Album, Number Four

This is the fourth album of my little collection of photos, arranged in more or less chronological order. A selection, that appears to be mostly from 1966, shows me wandering all over the place. First up, a forgotten brick building beside Cogswell Street at the base of Citadel Hill. It was part of a nineteenth-century… Read More

Old Album, Number Three

This is the third album of my little collection of photos, arranged in more or less chronological order.  A selection from 1966. In the spring of 1966 I visited Brunswick Street to see what had been Halifax's "best" residential street during the last half of the nineteenth century. Prosperous families built big, stylish houses at… Read More