It’s been a minute, huh? The end of the year kind of got away on me. I did take some photos, but never got around to blogging them. Mostly life has been work, family stuff, and just trying to keep on top of things. I made it through December with either the worst flu of my life or covid – don’t know which – and then spent a Christmas at the farm with my mother-in-law where I was still too tired to use a camera much.
We’re now into 2026. Um, yay? The good news to report is that, after a frustrating plateau, the weight is going down again. I’m within ten pounds of a “normal” BMI. I started the journey at “Obese III”, or morbidly obese, so things have improved a great deal. My energy is also coming back and I made it out with a camera today to try and get some of the frost.
Strathmore, AB, 2026-01-04
Strathmore, AB, 2026-01-04
We’ve had four days in a row of thick fog and everthing is covered in rime frost. Worse, the sidewalks are all slippery as fack and include free dancing lessons every time you hit an icy patch. It was -19C when I went out with a -27C wind chill. You have to dress for it if you’re going more than half a block. In my case it was 6 km.
The high point of the walk was that it was frosty out and I finally got to exercise the macro feature in my OM System Tough TG-7 again. The main reason to use it is that it is impervious to condensation from temperature changes in the cold, but its macro ability is the icing on the cake.
Strathmore, AB, 2026-01-04
Strathmore, AB, 2026-01-04
I made my usual loop of Gray Park as I often do on this particular hike, stopping to work some frost close-up on a tree trunk and made my way back home as I had neglected to put on adequate pants. I had a good jacket, balaclava, and heated gauntlets, but only sweat pants and the cold was starting to bite. Upon arriving home, I remembered to take a moment to try and work the frost in the pine out back. I was starting to lose my light plus I had no tripod, so only one shot turned out and it’s not as sharp as I’d like. Oh well.
It’s a late start to 2026, but not a bad start I hope. Planning and plotting has been happening in the background and I am so very close to launching my video project. Just a couple of weeks and I’m a go. Here’s the only hint you’re getting.
My bestie Ray will be there shooting with me, in a manner of speaking. You’ll see when the video project launches. I hope what I do works for him. I could care less what anyone else thinks. Ray has been gone for nearly two years, but when it comes to photography, his is still the only opinion that matters.
Most images made using my OM System Tough TG-7 point and shoot. The self-portrait is courtesy of my Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (now with a new battery), and the portrait of Ray was made using my old Canon EOS 300D (Digital Rebel) back in Edmonton in 2002.