I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
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Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
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Photo of the Day: Irises
Well, I took the plunge and upgraded to a digital SLR: a Canon Rebel XT. 8 megapixels and lots of bells and whistles, but still reasonably affordable and plenty of camera for my needs. Plus I knew pretty much how to use it right out of the box, since its interface is very similar to that of the S50 that suffered the problems on Sunday and may or may not be repared.
Here’s the first blog photo from the new camera. I haven’t done any serious shooting with it yet, but the colours here are rather nice, I though.
The Photo of the Day is back!
More photos here.
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Well, I took the plunge and upgraded to a digital SLR: a Canon Rebel XT. 8 megapixels and lots of bells and whistles, but still reasonably affordable and plenty of camera for my needs. Plus I knew pretty much how to use it right out of the box, since its interface is very similar to that of the S50 that suffered the problems on Sunday and may or may not be repared.
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Naughtyvoyeur, thanks for dropping by. I try to post a photo every day (and I come pretty close), so there’s always something to see.
Please call again!
I searched all blogs to see if anyone else posted photos of Irises.. and you came up 🙂 Congratulations on your new camera, what fun! And we both posted vintage photos of our Momma’s for Mother’s Day 🙂
I’ll be watching for more photos!