Monday, June 30, 2008
Blog Guelph : The Lazy Eramosa River
Happy end of June fellow blogosphere friends. Today's four post Blog Guelph effort may inspire you to actually duplicate the action captured in each fotog.
Don't have a canoe - don't fret. For a reasonable fee - $12.00 on weekends and $10.00 through the week, you can rent a boat for an hour at the kiosk set up by the Boathouse Tearoom (Gordon Street and the river) and head up or down the Eramosa.
Thinking ahead - for those of you planning to celebrate Canada Day tomorrow, here's an anthem refresher for you.
Oh, Canada
Our home and native land,
True patriot love
In all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts
We see thee rise,
The true, north, strong, and free.
From far and wide
Oh Canada
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land
Glorious and free.
Oh, Canada we stand on guard for thee,
Oh, Canada
we stand on guard for thee.
Sue Richards
Click the pics.....
Labels: AbandonedAccounts, summer
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Blog Guelph: Stang
The Guelph Mustang Drive-In is currently featuring WALL-E and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN.
Labels: Raven Girl
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Blog Guelph: Stone Kisses
The Donald Forster Sculpture Park boasts over 30 installations - which you can wander through anytime free of charge - is located at the MacDonald Stewart Art Gallery (corner of Gordon and College).
Get a park map here.
Labels: Macdonald Stewart Art Gallery, Raven Girl
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Blog Guelph: Guelph Canada Day Festivities
July 1 is Canada Day - which means Downtown Lynn and I will be off singing Oh Canada and not blogging. Instead of spending the day on-line, you may want to hustle your family to Riverside Park for a full day of summer activities like pony rides, face painting, duck races and a petting zoo.
Here are some of the scheduled events you can enjoy.
2pm -Live Music
3pm- Mega Mutts Dog Show
4:45pm Citizenship Re-Affirmation Ceremony
6pm- Overtones - Ladies Chorus
7pm- Royal City Big Band
9pm- Guelph Dignitaries Address
9:15pm- Dream Home Winner
9:45pm Fireworks
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Blog Guelph: Riverside Park Floral Clock
I know I know.
I did said no more Friday postings for the summer.
But with next week being short - July 1 is Canada Day - I felt compelled to offer one.
So here you have it - Guelph's working and constantly changing floral clock photographed by the talented Ms. Denim. You can catch a glimpse of the clock by driving by on your way to the Woolwich Street Beer Store. Or you can pull into Riverside Park and do a walking tour of the gardens.
Have a swank weekend. See you Monday but not Tuesday.
Sue Richards
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Blog Guelph: Don't Mess With Sam
Welcome to Thursday's
Made in Guelph
Good Thursday all,
Today we feature the gorgeous photography of Ithomas29 AKA Ian Thomas.
I truly don't know much about this keen eyed laddie.
So we'll just let these 10 superb shots speak for themselves.
I do wonder though, is he 29?
-Downtown Lynn-
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Blog Guelph: Little Stones
Blog Guelph: Tree
Blog Guelph: Goldie Mill
Blog Guelph: Osprey
Blog Guelph: Sun Breaking Through
Blog Guelph: Bridge
Blog Guelph: Bridge
Blog Guelph: Forgetful - not
Blog Guelph: Cans
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Blog Guelph: Heavenly Sky
Greetings Guelphites and fellow cyber-surfers from afar. Today I'm dishing up a batch of simple pics to ease your busy Wednesday minds into a state of lazy daze of summer.
If you've ever spent time watching a field of tall grass dance with a gentle breeze or lying on your back cloud gazing, you'll know how delightfully soul filling such simplicity can be.
And so it is my pleasure to offer up 8 pics for you to meditate on as you plug your way through the weeks apex - plus one fun capture for a chuckle.
There is news too. For instance, The Guelph Photography Club is meeting tonight - Wednesday, June 25th at 8:00 pm at The Albion Hotel. Do feel free to attend.
And we have two new blogs on the roll: Green Home Hints and Lauren - Everything and Anything. Of course you'll remember to tune into Royal City Rag tonight at 6pm on CFRU 93.3fm. And I'll bet your chomping at the bit to find out how Gareth Lind's last panel of Weltschmerz is going to end. That finale my friends will be yours tomorrow.
Lastly - my pal Rebecca is offering $50.00 off a home cleaning by her company Green Sweeps Canada . Check out her ad on the top right. Believe me when I say they do a bang up job and leave your home smelling fresh as summer.
Enjoy everything you can and then some. Click the pics.......
Sue Richards
Labels: church of our lady
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Blog Guelph: Land of Imagination
Blog Guelph: Come Hither Sweet Grass
Blog Guelph: Posture Perfect
Blog Guelph: Afternoon Water Droplets
Blog Guelph: Emotive Sky
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Blog Guelph: Chew Me
Blog Guelph: Dreamy
Blog Guelph: Rock Is Dead
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Blog Guelph: Morning Clematis
Happy Perfect Tuesday all,
Today I'd like to focus (har!) on a photographic method seen more and more these days.
And who better than the stellar photogs of Guelph Photography Club to illustrate such fine examples of such beautiful fuzz. I do believe they engage in "Bokeh Wednesday", so we've got a jump on them today it seems...
But what exactly is bokeh you say?
Here's a couple of pieced together definitions to help clear (har!) things up.
Bokeh: (disambiguation)
The blurry, un-focused background of a photograph DUE TO LENS BLUR **from close focusing**.
Bokeh describes the quality of out-of-focus areas of an image. The word “bokeh” (pronounced as boh-keh) comes from the Japanese word “boke” which means fuzziness. Bokeh isn’t the depth of field itself, but the way this unsharpness (usually the background) is displayed on a picture. A lens has good bokeh if the out-of-focus areas are pleasant and don’t distract from the subject. The shape of the aperture of a lens has a influence on bokeh. Lenses with more blades in the aperture diaphragm tend to result in more “round” bokeh.
There you have it. Now sit back and enjoy these 10. Oh, the blur!
Best viewed with your reading glasses perched atop your nose.
Or not.
-Downtown Lynn-
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Blog Guelph: Afternoon Bokeh
Blog Guelph: Foosball
Blog Guelph: Dreamy
Blog Guelph: Bokeh Bouquet
Blog Guelph: Green Mouth
Blog Guelph: The Forest
Blog Guelph: After the rain
Blog Guelph: Broken Glass
Monday, June 23, 2008
Blog Guelph: Southern Ontario
Howdy to another week of photographic adventuring around Guelph and the surrounding countryside. Today's lucky 7 pics feature our agricultural roots and the rolling landscape that surrounds our fair city.
Farm land photography tends to be easy on the eyes, impose simple lines, big space and lots of sky. Oh and cows - pretty, big headed cows get the nod too.
Please take your time on this first Monday of summer. The slower you go the longer summer will last.
Best viewed while sucking on a blade of hay.
Sue Richards
Labels: summer
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Blog Guelph: How Now Cow?
Blog Guelph: Rural Morning
Blog Guelph: You Live in a Barn?
Blog Guelph: The Farm
Blog Guelph: Ear Today
Cows like being photographed.
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Blog Guelph: Rural Roots Artscape
Friday, June 20, 2008
Blog Guelph: The Smell of Summer
Ryder dog has a nose for summer, which at long last arrives in Guelph at 6:59pm today by my rudimentary calculations. As a result, there are a pile of parties happening around town both tonight and deeper into the weekend. If you're free and unfettered and looking for action, snoop around Facebook for party crashing details.
BTW - Blog Guelph will be adopting summer habits for the next few months - which is to say we're scaling back to 4 days per week - Monday to Thursday.
Now then, click the pic to see the progress of Ryder's vanity project, celebrate the new season's dawning and appreciate something simple. It's summer in Guelph!
Sue Richards
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