Abandoned Yellow House #1

A housing crisis grips small northern communities. Pangnurtung is no exception. Families crowd into small units at levels of density we would never accept or imagine in the 'south'. Further aggravating the already critical shortage of housing, more than a few units are incredibly old and condemned - often due to mold.

My eye was caught by this particularly weatherbeaten old yellow house.

Nunavut: Road to Nowhere?

I was up in Nunavut last week on business. Though the business didn't turn out quite as planned, I was able to do a bit of shooting. I hope to post various images over the next few days and weeks, including some panoramas I took of Iqaluit. However, I'll start with a shot that just had to be taken: a genuine street sign: the Road to Nowhere. A colorful name for a road that does indeed, just dead end on the edge of what is already a small town.

Look Who's Turning 1!!!???

This is a landmark day. A year ago I wrote: "The purpose of this blog is simple: to challenge myself to post one new picture per week, for one year. The reason: to force myself, through a type of artificial project, to be creative. Or, more specifically, to use discipline - external or intrinsic - to foster and nurture my creativity behind the lens."....

Indeed,..Objectif Image..the Blog..has turned ONE!! I am, if I say so myself, a wee bit chuffed. With myself that is. For having stuck with it. For having tried. Not given up. Come back to it, even when there was so much else going on. It gave me a focus, a discipline, a reason, much as I intended. It made me practice. Think. Try. It did exactly what I wanted it to do. 59 posts in 52 weeks. I did it.

I feel I have improved. I've grown. I've learned. That's what I wanted. I'm on a journey. Mastering photography is in fact a lifelong journey. I've got a ways to go. But I'm not a quitter.

And so, with no further ado, I post the last of the first year photos. In the spirit of comleting the circle, I post a photo of Mattias - the subject of my first photo post. He's a year older now. It's a nice photo of my almost 5 year old son, having a story read to him by his grandpa. Reminds me of the quote: "You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold, richer than I you can never be, I had a grandfather (sic) who read to me!"

To celebrate I will be publishing a book: Objectif Image - Year One. More on that later. For now...thanks for joining me.

glenn

Humam and Mitzi

For a wedding present for Humam and Mitzi, I made a canvas using the photo I blogged last fall. The canvas has a quote from Sheik Shakespeare: I love thee; I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old. I love thee."

Joshua: I Dwell in Possibility

Here is a canvas that I made for a friend's son Joshua - taken at his birthday party in a gym. The canvas is designed by Jessica Ditmer. The text reads: "Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul. And sings the tune without words and never sleeps at all. I dwell in possibility." Seemed very fitting for this image - and so warm in colours too.

Elysia revisited

Thinking about projects I've worked on over the past year but not blogged, I thought I'd post a few. Here is a montage originally made for a 20x20 print - obviously a big wall print. I captures Elysia when she was quite a bit younger than she is now.

It's Fun Being a Kid!

Well there you go! I've got so many cute photos of this little 'imp', that I thought I'd share a few. It's fun to put them into little montages, so here's another one.