As part of my Covid-19 driven activities, I’ve been culling my photography archives. This is a long overdue task, one that never proceeds when there are more interesting things to do. I’m making progress and hope to cut the number of photographs I have in storage in half.
One of the positive aspects of this chore is finding some old favourites from the past. These were all taken before 2010, so I’m confident they’ve never appeared in a blog post before today.
The first picture was taken in 2007 when Rolande, Jaime and I went to Europe to visit with a friend of Jaime’s living in Geneva. One of the places we visited was Sommocolonia, a small mountain village in the eastern part of Tuscany. We stayed in a 500 year old villa, which was very nice but this house is more typical of the area and a good photo subject.
We visited Africa in 2008 with friends Pat and Barry Stewart. We photographed a lot of wildlife, including this picture of two zebras, one of my favourites from the trip.
In the early days of our travels to Arizona, we drove nearly every route imaginable to get there. In the spring of 2005, we traveled down the west coast of the USA, stopping to visit my brother, Bruce and sister-in-law, Joan residing in Vancouver WA at the time. One of the places we visited in the course of our stay there was Multnomah Falls, just east of Portland along the Columbia River.
I couldn’t overlook one from close to home, very close as a matter of fact. This photograph was taken from our back porch in early January of 2009. An absolutely stunning sunset.
Once again, while visiting my brother and family I photographed another waterfall. Albion Falls cascades down from the Niagara Escarpment in the City of Hamilton, Ontario. This shot was taken in September of 2009. Bruce certainly knows how to find good waterfalls. I’m sure he’s been to nearby Niagara Falls as well!
It’s great to look back through the earlier photographs and recall the associated memories. Seeing these “keepers” is a welcome relief from the tedium of working through thousands of old pictures.