I recently attended a photography workshop by Darwin Wiggett and although I’ve been shooting pictures for a while it still turns out that I knew nothing (now I only know next to nothing) about photography.
If you want to gain an insight into how to take better pictures I highly recommend Darwins seminars, check out his web site for seminar dates.
The wife said “if you make it happen we’ll go”; well I made it happen… Read the rest of this entry »
This book was a very good read but also an eye opener.I guess at my age I’m still naive enough to think that people have a certain inane empathy towards other human beings in this world.
This appears to be true when you see the world come together to try and help victims of the Tsunami in Asia, or of the hurricanes that devastated New Orleans.
But it chills my blood to read about the inhumanity that is purposely developed in other human beings for the purpose of taking the life of other human beings. Read the rest of this entry »
Well I don’t get to win that often but I finally did win something that doesn’t depend on pure dumb luck (or at least I like to think so). WOXY.com (www.woxy.com) ran a “So you wanna be a DJ” contest and I submited a playlist. Read the rest of this entry »
This book was of special interest to me as our son is autistic. You’d thing that after three years of living with an autistic I’d know more but this book still managed to open my eyes. Read the rest of this entry »
Not sure what to make of this book, it was an excellent read but it was as tragic as it was funny (funny isn’t quite the right word but I only have a University education so don’t expect too much).
At first I thought this was an account of the 2nd Gulf War written by an embedded journalist in Iraq. I quickly found out that this book was written by a Canadian working for Harpers on a budget. Read the rest of this entry »
I heard about this book one day while watching CNN just before the last US elections and the CNN coverage got me curious. Read the rest of this entry »
I recently experienced the privilege of tasting a 1995 vintage Opus One wine and I must say “oh my”. I have never been an oneophile (not sure I spelled that right) and always believed that a $12 bottle of wine was as good as $30 bottle of wine (or $150CD for Opus One). Boy was I wrong.The wine was served with roast lamb, polenta and steamed beans. The wine complemented the food so nicely that it could have been a dish or a meal all by itself. I felt dirty for putting salt or pepper on my meal. Read the rest of this entry »