What's It All About, eh?

Cape Breton evokes deep memories and strong emotions for me as well as a deep appreciation for the beauty of my adopted island. My hopes are that you too might find the photos evocative - maybe a view you've not enjoyed before, or an 'Oh I've been there', or if from away that you may be encouraged to visit this fair isle so that you might come to love and breathe Cape Breton as I do. One word about place names that I use - some are completely local usage while others are from maps of Cape Breton that I've purchased over the years. I frequently post travel and other photos that are of interest to me - and hopefully you.

On the right hand side bar find my take on Single Malt whiskey - from how to best enjoy this noble drink to reviews (in a most non-professional manner) of ones that I have tried and liked - or not. Also musings, mine and others, on life in general.

Photographs are roughly 98%+ my own and copy-righted. For the occasional photo that is borrowed, credit is given where possible - recently I have started posting unusual net photographs that seem unique. Feel free to borrow any of my photos for non-commercial use, otherwise contact me. Starting late in 2013 I have tried to be consistent in identifying my photographs using ©smck on all out of camera photos I personally captured - (I often do minor computer changes such as 'crop' or 'shadow' etc but usually nothing major), and using ©norvellhimself on all photos that I have played around with in case it might not be obvious. Lately I have dropped the ©smck and have watermarked them with the blog name.

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Moon

A hand-held shot with my Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ200.   I love the FZ200 for I really am a rank amateur with cameras, just shooting away with the 'automatic' setting and getting some nice photographs.  I was outside early for 'The Morning News' photos and took a stab at getting this shot of the moon high in the sky as the sun was coming up.  Since it was quite light out the automatic settings were able to handle the light entering the lens much better than at night.   I did use my computer program Picasa to bring the shadow detail into play - but the detail was there.  This means that when I finally learn how to set the manual settings then I will be able to get better detail than this with no computer adjustments. 


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Churchill

25 November 2013
Near the end of Winston Churchill's life there was a photo - quite famous at the time but now difficult to find - of Churchill setting with his back to the camera.  When the photographer had approached him to take his photograph Sir Winston turned his back and sat facing away signifying that he did not want another damn photographer snapping away but the canny photographer took his picture anyhow.  It was displayed in newspapers and magazines everywhere (the equivalent of 'going viral' today).
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The Morning News





25 November 2013     ©smck













The small maple (yellow) and sweet gum (red) are still hanging in for fall - bottom photo is a close up of center of this photo.
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Around The World This Week

Visitors in descending order as to number of hits in this last week

United States
Malaysia
 Germany 
Canada
Russia
France
China 
United Kingdom
Finland
South Korea

Thank you all for stopping by - feel free to leave comments - and please continue to return - (there may be other countries that I have missed but Google only gives me the first ten)


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Blue

03 November 2013

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