last friday a trip to Toronto by moi got cut short in the photo way when my Sony H50 battery conked.

2x dumb cuz I have two Sony batteries and brought just one and did not top up the juice in the one. grrrr

flickr.com has several museums now posting photos from their collections, there may be more but these are ones I have found and keep an eye on

a new one  is the Reykjavik Museum of Photography
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reykjavikmuseumofphotography/

George Eastman House
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/

US Library of Congress
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

US National Archives
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/

National Archief of the Netherlands
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/

Powerhouse Museum Collection
http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/

not a museum but some interesting photos
The White House
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/

Washington DC Public Library
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcplcommons/

State Library and Archives of Florida
http://www.flickr.com/photos/floridamemory/

Well, well, this blog is now four years old.  I have let it run fallow for periods and dug back in at other times.   Over 12,000 page views.  Time to dig in again.

I am starting to go through old family photos and old photos of mine not of family and posting them online. 

Today two old photos of my late parents.

Picnic table shot at the cottage lot in 1969. As I type this now I am just a few feet away from this spot, I am inside the cottage that was built in 1969-70.



My parents cutting their wedding cake in the Spring of 1945 in Montreal:

I have begun or more accurately resumed taking photos of houses and other buildings in my local area, small town Ontario.   There is a lot of 100 year old houses to choose from.   Different styles, some very simple. some more elaborate, lots of Victorian gingerbread details, some have have "grown" over the years with a series of add-ons.

This example is in Midland, Ontario.  It seems to be similar to the housing built for company workers in Victoria Harbour when it was a one company town roughly during the 1900-1927 period.  In Midland there was lumber mills, foundries, and ship construction, all of that gone now.

I found this excellent photographic zone as part of the extensive and fascinating blog of The Pioneer Woman, from a reference on the Internet Movie Database Movie News page.  It seems they are going to make a movie about her.  She is a big city girl who fell in love with a cowboy and move to Oklahoma and had to make a few adjustments.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/photography/

My main project for 2010 is personal definition through both self portraiture and through new perspectives looking out through my cameras.

my flickr folder called Personal Defintion contains old photos and new photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canuckshutterer/sets/72157623127424557/

selection of photos I have taken recently at the Huronia Museum

The leaves are down and the snow is not yet here and my photographic eye is drawn nowhere in particular. My return to film shooting is lagging. Mostly taking snapshots of the dog. And all those are digital. I am trying to come up with some plan for a number of photo projects to spur me into action over the next couple of months. Here is the tentative list. • Toronto visit on Friday of this month, shoot in downtown area. • rural small town Victorian era houses, overall and details. • self portraits. • local community events. • scan old family prints. • scan slides I took at Syncrude Project in 1974 and 75. • make a list of all my old cameras and systematically shoot a roll of film per month (?) with them. That should net something worthwhile

the bug is back and I am just about to spring into action all the way.....not sure why but the digicams are not tickling my fancy as completely as they once did. I have a roll of HP5 started in my old Nikon F2 with a meterless head on it. Took some portraits with my non-AI 85mm lens. here it is with the non-functioning metered head: The other possibility is likely going to be my Bessa R, rather than one of my old old rangefinders. Although, two old German SLRs are crying to get out and work: a Contaflex and a Bessamatic. I just have to get butt in gear and then soup the negas. More on this soon.... I hope.