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2023-12-25 08:38 am

Photos: Hiawatha Park and Radisson

Early December 2023 - Hiawatha Park and Radisson

The fog was just perfect in the moment on December 10, 2023. Imagine my surprise to find Google Photos "stitching" three shots together into this.
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2022-12-01 11:05 pm

Testing Another Avatar

Yeah, that one doesn't look great.

I look like a smug know-it-all. I don't remember what I was thinking when I took that one, but I clearly wasn't paying proper attention to either doing the photography or posing for it. So regular usage of that image file is not going to happen.

See you tomorrow.
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2022-09-02 08:34 am

Wildlife: A Turkey in Northern Orléans

Spotted at Bruyère Village in northern Orléans...just sitting there at the time.

Turkey at Bruyère Village
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2022-08-03 09:41 am

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I'm still job-searching. Also, scanning loose family photos into the computer for an archival project. This afternoon at about 3 PM, I get Pandemic Vaccine Booster # 2.

More as it occurs to me.
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2022-07-19 10:52 pm

Checking In - 19 July 2022

I've applied on two jobs today. This after some 20-30 job boards and other relevant web sites checked out over the space of 5-6 hours. Also, practice time on Affinity Publisher because why shouldn't I use a personal, family project as a means of developing desktop publishing/book design skills?

The frustration continues, and I intend to keep putting one foot in front of the other as best I can for as long as I can in spite of that.

(For some reason, I imagined myself writing something a lot more detailed and involved than this.)
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2022-05-16 10:30 am
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2022-03-19 09:07 pm

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Got some pix of the construction of one of the new O-Train stations, doubling as the renovation of one of the old Transitway stations here in eastern Ottawa.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/albums/72177720297478784

Also, got some laundry done this morning before I went out for my day's shopping errands.

Rain day, too. Not the worst rain we've had, just enough to keep the spring melt moving along.

Oh, and I got a haircut last week. The CPAP machine mask harness was part of the impetus, the new job search was another reason. Although some people seem pleased with it regardless of the motives.

At Sunrise Records - Place d'Orléans
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2021-08-11 01:50 pm

Walking Tours

I have really got to do a walking tour of the city. Or pull together enough of my Flickr collection to turn into a story for here.
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2021-07-12 04:19 pm

An Anniversarial Aside About My Flickr Account

I just realized: I've had an account with them - through three ownership groups (Yahoo!, Verizon and now SmugMug) - for fifteen years now.

So...yay, me, I guess?
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2021-07-12 02:46 pm

Street Names: A Selection of Imagery

I've written the occasional entry for Spacing Ottawa on the subject of street names, illustrating those entries with photographic imagery of the streets whose names were under discussion. Owing to inspiration from a friend, let me share some of that imagery again here. Some weirder, some more entertaining than others, others in need of a change.

In the same spirit as Toronto's Avenue Road, we have on the eastern edge of Centretown, also known as the Golden Triangle in between the Rideau Canal and Elgin Street, we have...the Driveway:

Just "the Driveway"

We have streets named for nations, foreign and domestic. Norway, for one example of the foreign...

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For our provinces as decided by the federal government:

Ontario Street

Our better-known artists are represented, too, among them the photographer Yusuf Karsh:

Manju and Karsh

And a few others you may have heard of in relation to Canada:

Entertainers' Streets I

Artists and entertainers from elsewhere, too:

Cole Porter Street

Fictional characters of various origins:

Britannia Novel Names

Street Names of Ottawa: Works of Fiction


Canada's first female-identifying doctor:

Stowe  Court -2

A revolutionary and a doctor who tried to save him from the consequences of his actions:

Riel and Valade

And there are more to be seen on my Flickr account...
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2021-07-01 08:56 pm

Walking Time - 1 July 2021

I didn't feel like travelling outside my neighbourhood today. But I needed the walking time, so I got it.
Morning Walk - 1 July 2021
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2021-06-26 09:00 pm

2008: Horse Traffic

So I saw this in downtown Ottawa in 2008...

A touch of the aulde...
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2021-06-13 08:48 pm

2008: Nanaimo Shoreline

I went to Nanaimo to visit relatives, and one afternoon, I took a walk along the shoreline south towards the downtown...

Nanaimo - Shore Life
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2021-05-20 08:09 pm

CBC/Ideas: Untold Stories of Ethiopa

Listening to this programme as I type this entry. Per the title on the CBC page:

Maaza Mengiste on confronting the past without 'smoothing out the rough edges of history'
The writer turns to archival photography to explore how historical narratives are created

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/maaza-mengiste-on-confronting-the-past-without-smoothing-out-the-rough-edges-of-history-1.6033285
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2021-05-19 02:18 pm

Photography/Ottawa: 2009 - The Painted Shark

It's been over a decade since I recorded this image. Not sure if the painting's still there nowadays. I'll have to ask friends who live in Lowertown if they've noticed.

Graffiti With a Commanding View?
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2021-05-19 01:54 pm

Spaceflight: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

Photo sourced from the European Space Agency via Flickr:

A matter of time

I'm a sucker for spacewalk/EVA imagery. Also for logo designs.
dewline: Doctor Who quote: Books. Best Weapons in the World (Books)
2021-03-15 02:54 pm

New Book in Hand Today

From the good people at Spacing Media:

Dwight Williams holding a copy of the book Packaged Toronto

If you're interested, have a look...