Englishman living in Canada; photographer; Agile coach / scrum master; Formula One (F1) fan; badminton player.
Taken during preparations for a nature photography workshop which I was asked to lead for the Spring Bird Festival at Tommy Thompson Park.
Taken on a photo walk downtown; March 2012.
The building on the left is Toronto’s City Hall (hence “Power” in the image’s title).
Toronto Photo Walk in the Beaches – we had some interesting light (and a variety of weather) that day.
Graffiti and construction – that’s downtown Toronto in a nutshell!
Taken on a Toronto Trails walk through Tommy Thompson Park (Leslie Street spit); January 2012.
Toronto Photo Walks* is holding its first group exhibition at Studio 561 on March 17th to 31st. Details are on the TOPWshow.ca website; there’s even a poster for you to print and display
The opening party will be on Saturday March 17th, 5pm onwards – I’m sure we can arrange for green beer for those who are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
(*TOPW is the photo-walking group that I started in 2009; I’m one of the 21 photographers showing work at this exhibition.)
Shot with Allan’s Christmas present (a Sigma 10-20mm lens) on the Toronto Brick Works photo walk, December 2011.
Shot on the Sunday morning of the Toronto Photo Walks weekend trip to Orillia in December 2011.
Taken on the Toronto Photo Walks: Belt Line walk, October 29 2011.
Taken on the Urban Photography workshop with Chris Marquardt, September 2011.
The official F1 site notes that “Pirelli have announced the dry tyre compounds that will be used for the forthcoming races in Montreal, Valencia and Silverstone.” Grand Prix Prime: compound (band) Options: compound (band) Canada (Montreal) soft (yellow) super-soft (red) Europe (Valencia) medium (white) soft (yelllow) Great Britain (Silverstone) hard (silver) soft (yellow) I [...]
I was approached a few months ago by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, asking me if I’d be interested in leading a nature photography workshop for them as part of their Spring Bird Festival at Tommy Thompson Park. The festival was the same weekend as one of our scheduled Toronto Photo Walks, so I [...]
The first of the European races could be interesting thanks to Alonso’s comments (see Practice notes) and a strange grid (Qualifying notes) Provisional grid: LH, PM, FA, RG, KR, SP, NR, SV, MS, KK, JB, MW, PRe, NH, JV, DR, FM, BS, VP, HK, CP, TG, PRo, NK* (*outside of 107% time) My GridBids picks [...]
It’s dry but very windy on the main straight. Air temperature 28°C, track 41°C, wind 2.7m/s, humidity 35% Tyre compounds for this weekend are hard (silver band) and soft (yellow). FA was fastest in Free Practice 1 at his home Grand Prix; JB was fastest in FP2 and SV in FP3. (See my Practice notes [...]
Everyone survived the Bahrain GP weekend and now the circus moves on to Europe. Following the stewards’ decision not to penalise NR for either of his moves which resulted in first LH and then FA being pushed off-track, FA said “I think you are going to have fun in future races! You can defend position [...]