Outdoor Oil tour, Oil Springs, Ontario

I heart Oil

Fairbanks Receiving Station

Fairbanks Pumping and Receiving Station

Water Tower, Petrolia

Revelstoke 5

Revelstoke 5

British Columbia

2009

Abandoned airstrip

Abandoned Airstrip

Northern Territory, Australia

This airfield was used during WWII as Darwin was being bombed during the war in the Pacific

And this is a...????

Beaconsfield Mine and Heritage Centre

Beaconsfield, Tasmania (Australia)

Thought this simply beautiful, so it will probably find it's way into some further exploration. I have a feeling that this piece of equipment may not be mining-related, as there were other things like butter churns in the fore-museum.

Getting off the Gardiner and playing with Photoshop

(or it's equivalents).

I like playing with pictures, for any purists out there who think that photoshopping is cheating, well, think twice. I think it's important to get it right it the viewfinder, but his step is often a mediation point for me and some further drawings. Photoshop? It's a tool....same as a pencil.

Anyway, I have a major clog in the creative artery, but this random point and shoot caught my eye because it's all the signage you need to get "to the downtown Toronto". (A city I live right on top of, but don't know and should; a city I would like to explore some more; a city who's sense of beauty I haven't figured out.

Getting off the Gardiner: Toronto

Doors Open Hamilton

Well, what a wonderful surprise THAT was! A huge thanks goes out to Rod Paget, whose hard work, enthusiasm and all sorts of other good things brought together a number of artists who enjoy a fascination with things industrial. Our work was mounted amongst the machinery of the powerplant of the old Westinghouse/CAMCO property, or what is now the McMaster Innovation Park.

I have about 1,000 new reference photos....and heaven knows where to start, so I chickened out on what I wanted to do (a fairly complicated structure) and started with a few simple shapes to see where that led...