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Yellow Tulip (big version available in the gallery – click image below):

Horse Constables (big version available in the gallery):

This guy was out back of the archives building on a smoke break when I wandered by. He agreed to let me take a photo, and here it is.

Chef (big version available in the gallery):

The photo is of a train bridge over the river (or rather a tight shot of the trusses from an angled position). It is a bridge located near the Goldeyes baseball park in downtown Winnipeg.

My desire with the photo is promote the complexity of the trusses without distracting the viewer with “scenery” (i.e. sky colour, etc). So, I adjusted the photo to push out a lot of contrasting areas, and simply promote the ideas of the complexity of the lines of the trusses of the bridge.

Geometry Of A Train Bridge (big version available in the gallery):

In the building where I work, the company that is contracted to take care of the plants will rotate new flowering plants in the lobby area on a semi-frequent basis. This is a flower I took a photo of a few days ago in the lobby.

Untitled (big version available in the gallery):

This is one of my favourite images I have done so far. It seems to convey a lot of emotion to me.

Untitled (big version available in the gallery):

Well, last night Cory hosted dinner at her place for me, my mom, my sister, and her friend Robert. It was highly fun, and very light. My mom and Cory completely sandbagged me by conspiring to get me worked up and frothing at the mouth over stuff. (Note to self to ponder: Why, oh why, did I ever give Cory my mom’s phone number?? *sigh*) They almost succeeded (well, they mostly succeeded) until I realized that Cory was full of crap and lying terribly. But, she is beautiful, smarter than me, and could probably wrestle me to the ground and win, so I forgive her, plus she looks so cute trying to keep a straight face while bold-face lying… such facial contortions!

It is with both a great deal of happiness and somewhat dreading that I saw how well she and my mom and sister got along. Happiness for obvious reasons, and dread since she fell into the “bait Keith and then pull the rug out from under him” antics of my sister a little too well

The highlight was me finally convincing Cory to let me take her photograph. Of course I did so under penalty of having an anvil dropped on my head if said image of her should ever reach the light of the Internet. I will prevail at some point and she will let me do a full shoot with her (she just hasn’t realized it yet).

Everyone had a great time. Some new things about each other were learned by all. So remind me to write the story sometime of “Cory the Circus Girl Who Wore a Big Feather Hat and Stood on the Back of a Horse as it Walked Around the Big Top”* *(this may or may not be a fictional story). Now if that doesn’t generate gossip at her work, I don’t know what will! But, should she have ever given out this website addy to begin with?

Yesterday I mentioned a powwow at The Forks. Here is a photo of one of the interesting people I met at the event. He was a really amusing guy.

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On the way back from shooting a powwow at The Forks.

Urban Sunset #2 (big version available in the gallery):

Today’s Photo Of The Day is dedicated to Cory (since she will wring my neck if I buy her any more real flowers any time soon!):

Reach and Stretch.
The wind blows and still
they strain. They bend,
but do not give in.

Up they look, to the
heavens above and strain
with joyous rapture to touch
the sky.

They seek to touch the sky.
They seem to know.
They look to see God in the
heavens.

They seek, and strain, they
never give in.

Cory’s flowers until the end.

– Keith Young (2005)

Prairie Flowers (big version available in the gallery):