I have a new photo gallery up. It is an idea I’ve been playing with in my head for a while - inspired by the photos I took to show the new ribbons and thread I got last week - but it took some creative thinking before I was able to create a set-up that would let me takethe right kind of pictures.

Several times recently I have seen pictures of ordinary objects shown at many times their usual size and I find them just fascinating. There are so many tiny details in our everyday lives that we don’t really notice. I think it’s nice every once in a while to sit down and really look at things to appreciate what’s there. I hope you enjoy the gallery; it was a fun experiment.

I have finally got the last of my 2002 pictures into my scrapbook. It was nearly finished just before Christmas but I ran out of the glue I was using and couldn’t get any more of it in town. I ordered some more from an online shop but since it was Christmasit took longer than usual to arrive. It was a lot of fun to finally get my glue and finish my page.

It always takes me a while to get my pages set up to my satisfaction. This year was particularly challenging because I didn’t have a lot of pictures but I wanted to give each little event its own space. I ended up doing stripes with different coloured papers: Miscellaneous, The 2002 Uvic Grad Party, Lunch with Friends, Christmas and Pictures On The Ice Road.

I also had a bit of a challenge figuring out how I was going to put in some of the things that went along with the grad party stuff. I had an official grad picture of my friend Abby with a letter on the back and a postcard with a piece of Abby’s artwork (she got her BFA that year) on the front and an explanation of her work on the back. I ended up making little doors with windows in them; The picture and the postcard are on the front and the letter and the explanation are on the back when you to open the door. This also meant that I got put some hidden pictures into my page which was kind of fun.

Now it’s on to 2003 (which has many more pictures since that is the year I got my digital camera).

We are getting to the part of the year where seeing the sun is rarer and more exciting. I took this photo outside the museum last week when we had a particularly good example of just how fantastic the atmosphere up here can be. No matter how much I dislike the cold and the bugs, the sky up here always amazes me. We get perfect fluffy sheep clouds in the summer and hours of golden orange sunset over pink rocks and dark pine trees. We get the startlingly blue sky which only happens when the temperature drops bellow -30. There are days in the winter when everything seems touched with gold because the sun can’t get high enough above the horizon to give clear light.
 
Here are a couple more pictures I took the same day.
 
This one shows both sides of the sun dog though by the time I got outside they were not as bright as they had been fifteen minutes earlier.


This was taken using the zoom on my camera.  I hadn’t really expected much (the sun being so incredibly far away) but it looks kind of cool.