…..the word Sue pulled from her dictionary this week is remote
Remote to me means far away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The beach where I have my cottage feels remote very early in the morning or early or late in the season. A great place to reflect.
For more ‘remote’ photographs check out Sue Llewellyn’s blog A Word in Your Ear
….I’m very attracted to water
I live by water all year round. My home is 100m from Lake Ontario and my cottage is on Georgian Bay. My walks take me along the shores of the lake and our dog loves to swim in the lake.
For more photos of water check out Sue Llewelyn’s A Word in Your Ear.
…. I love the macro zoom feature on my camera
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….this will be the last of the industrial pictures for awhile
One of the aspects of this challenge that I love so much is the variety of shapes, sizes and forms found in industrial equipment and structures.
For more industrial photography check out Sue Llewellyn’s blog at A Word in Your Ear
…. my neighbourhood used to be a very industrial area but over the years businesses have closed or moved to other areas
Some factories look like bombed out shells that keep out curious visitors with steel fences and barbed wire
In other parts of town all evidence of former factories have been razed leaving behind empty fields, also surrounded by fencing and barbed wire.
Even factories that have been ‘rocks in the community’ are beginning to leave to make room for more condos. The latest casualty is Christie’s. The smell of freshly baked bread wafting along the Lakeshore has been part of my life for as long as I can remember.
For more industrial photos check out Sue Llewellyn’s A Word in Your Ear
…. over at A Word In Your Ear, Sue’s A Word A Week Challenge this week is Industrial. Today I’m focusing on old industrial sites that have been restored to be used by the public.
I love this challenge. Living in Toronto presents itself with all kinds of industrial photo opportunities. On our daily walks we always come across this amazing old building that used to be a power plant in the early to mid 1900’s. Today it’s been restored and is used for recreation purposes. In the winter it houses a seating area to lace up your ice skates and a place to warm up after enjoying the outdoor skating rink next door.
Another great old factory that has recently been restored is the old Brickworks in the city’s east end. It’s also become a multi-purpose facility. It houses a farmers’ market in the summer and is used for workshops, art exhibitions and a variety of functions. I love walking around the old brick ovens.
Tomorrow I will share photo of more industrial areas that have been re-invented and are now used for new businesses.
Cheers!
…..being ‘reblogged’ by someone with a huge following
I’ve only started blogging in mid April of this year. It was never a goal to reach thousands of readers (or so I thought). I just wanted to share memories, ideas, photos and recipes with family and friends and I wanted a public forum that would help keep me honest and motivated on my weight loss journey.
Most successful bloggers would probably tell me that I need to be more focused on one topic, (i.e. photography or weight loss or food articles or DIY projects or etc., etc..) and not dabble in so many different areas. My blog is like my life. I’m interested in a diverse range of subjects and I like trying new things. As a teacher I also like to share lessons that work well and I love supporting the arts. This includes work that my students have done, workshops that my daughter runs, art exhibitions of my 91 year old friend and photographs that my cousin and I share.
When I started to get ‘likes’ from complete strangers from all over the world and when some of these same people started to follow me I was initially nervous about putting myself out there but I met some great people in the blogosphere and I started looking forward to checking my stats and seeing who was reading my blog. I started experimenting with different styles of writing and posting more photographs. I read ten to twenty new blogs every night and tried to make comments on some that were of particular interest to me.
Over the past six months I would be delighted with three or four ‘likes’ for each post. As my readership started to increase and the number of followers reached 180, the number of ‘likes’ also increased. My best number of ‘likes’ for one post went as high as 19 but sometimes it would take several days to get there.
I’m somewhat competitive and I like a challenge. A few days ago I set a goal to write a post that would get 20 ‘likes’. When Sue Llewellyn put out her lastest challenge I had no idea how posting four photographs that were taken this summer would bring me so much attention. Not only did I reach my goal, I surpassed it. When this post was published I had received 92 ‘likes’. Wow!
I have to give a big thanks to Sue Llewellyn from A Word in Your Ear. She graciously reblogged my post, The Word a Week Photograph Challenge – Blue and the majority of my ‘likes’ came from her followers. I’ve secretly wanted to be ‘Freshly Pressed’ but this was the next best thing.
So what’s my next goal? Trying to figure out how to get some of these bloggers back to my blog would be one goal but another one is getting my number of followers up to 200. It’s time to check out 90 or so new blogs and leave a few comments. “Phew… I’d better get busy.”
Cheers and Thanks!
Mama Cormier 