Photography

The nice thing about freezing rain and snow storms…

January 13, 2018 Phillip Blancher

… is you get to take photos like this. ISO: 100, f/11, 1/200s

Weddings

September 13, 2017 Phillip Blancher

Weddings are stressful. I did not realize how stressful they are for photographers until I finally shot one myself. Every time I took a photo, I was worried that I’d screw it up. So I […]

WTC

September 10, 2017 Phillip Blancher

This is one of the few photos I have from my time in high school. I hated the high school I went to so mysteriously (not!) many photos went in the trash post-grad. Taken in […]

Early mornings…

September 6, 2017 Phillip Blancher

I do not understand what possesses grown adults to put a boat in the water before the crack of dawn to catch fish, let alone go into a competition with others to do so. All […]

Father and son

September 4, 2017 Phillip Blancher

I took this photo during a recent trip to the Lake George, New York area, in Bolton Landing. What caught my eye wasn’t just the lake, or the mountains, but this duo on paddle boards. […]

On the Sunday of Thanksgiving Weekend we took the family up to the Gatineau Hills to sight-see the fall colours. We also wanted to check out Kingsmere, the estate of former Prime Minister William Lyon […]

Cornwall’s bridge comes down.

October 1, 2015 Phillip Blancher

The Seaway Bridge crossing the retired Cornwall Canal and the St. Lawrence River in Cornwall, Ontario, has been going through a massive redevelopment project. This included construction of a new low-level crossing and the gradual […]

An hour in Iroquois Railfanning.

April 9, 2014 Phillip Blancher

Iroquois Station design drawing – Courtesy Library & Archives Canada I spent an hour this morning at the site of the former railway station at Iroquois, Ontario, Milepost 100.2 on the CN Kingston Sub. This […]