Many thanks to the editors at Flickr for selecting one of my Hot Air Jubilee photos for their selection of “Flickr Through the Years – Flickr Staff Favorites” blog post.
Jackson’s local Hot Air Jubilee is one of my favorite annual events to photograph, and it’s easy to understand why: summer, beautiful Ella Sharp Park, and all those colors.
All these years later, I continue to find value and appreciation in Flickr.
It’s our first year with a garden at the new house, and now tomatoes, peppers, and even strawberries are ripe and ready to pick.
This gave me a chance to try out my new Canon EF-M 28mm f/3.5 macro – part of my summer project to round out my Canon M system. This lens also gives me a 40mm field of view (my favorite!) on the APS-C sensor.
Colors here, colors there – a rainbow everywhere.
School’s almost in session, summer is sliding into fall, so I’m getting up and close to the things that grow while I still can.
A few more:
Even though I feel like it’s the same-ol’, same-ol’ each year, our local county fair never disappoints.
Shot on a mixture of EF-M 22mm and 32mm, with the Canon M200.
More from Burlington, Ontario – this time, turning my back to Lake Ontario and grabbing the cityscape.
Burlington is a nice town. You could tell from the cars and the restaurants, plus all the new high-rises sprouting up, that this city had money.
And architecture to spare.
Travel for work is the best, especially when you get to explore a new place.
In this case, I traveled to Burlington, Ontario, for a sales meeting and stayed on the Lake Ontario shore, just south of Toronto.
It gave me a good excuse to test my new-ish Canon M200 and 15-45mm kit lens in the morning and late afternoon while walking around downtown Burlington.
Every two years.
From 2018 to now, we head up to Door County, Wisconsin, for our annual family summer vacation. With no better idea this year, we made our way back in July.
Some familiar sites, some brand new. Just in time for cherry season. And beautiful weather along Lake Michigan and Green Bay. Lucky us.
Greens and blues, reds and browns. Maritime cities and rural countryside. Beach days and quick day trips.
Along the way: memories.
So true.
Just this week, I logged into Tumblr to see where it was. The algorithm heard me and presented Yvonne’s video, as if 2014 was calling us all back.
I loved Tumblr. It was a great mix of social and blogging. It was fun, easy to use, easy to post, and for a beginner photographer like me, offered tons of ideas and inspiration as I grew in my craft. Ultimately, I gave it up because of its walled-garden nature, but using the platform was a hoot. I still miss it.
Now, it’s a ghost town – at least the blogs I followed have mostly shut down or moved on.
Yvonne’s video is a great look back at the height of Tumblr-mania and what it inspired in all of us who were there at the time.
