Dundas Valley Images

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A few more photos from the workshop

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The first photo here is taken at a garden near where we were staying.

The second and third were part of my assignment -"seen from a gazebo" - both were taken from inside one of three gazebos near our inn.

Number two was made in the evening while I was standing in the gazebo near the beach trying to find something of interest. As the fog and heavy overcast began to lift and the sky brightened people I had not noticed before seemed to appear from nowhere and began strolling down the beach toward and along the water. People enjoying the beach and water in the brightening evening seemed like a wonderful New Brunswick scene to me and worth photographing.

Number three - the lupins - was made from the gazebo about 75 feet from the Inn.

Number four was taken on a beach where we spent the morning of day 4.

There were two covered bridges withing walking distance from the inn - I was standing close to one of them when I took this photo of the other bridge.

Some photos from the Freeman Patterson/André Gallant New Brunswick Workshop

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These are a few of my photos taken at the Freeman Patterson/André Gallant workshop I attended last week in New Brunswick.

We stayed in a lovely inn in St. Martins on the Bay of Fundy.

Three of these photos are from areas very close to the inn - two are taken at Freeman's home on Shamper's Bluff about an hour from the inn.

The first and fourth are close-ups of plants in Freeman's garden.

The second, also taken at Freeman's home, looks out over his property to the St. John river. The lupins in the foreground are just a few of the ones on his property and they seem to grow virtually everywhere in this part of New Brunswick.

Photo three is an attempt to capture the fog moving in on the land in the distance, The "beach" area in the foreground will be under water at high tide.

The fifth photo is taken at a fishing boat docking area near the inn. The tide is out so the mud bottom and residual water is visible in the foreground. The upper part of the photo shows the breakwater and a glimpse of the gap in the breakwater where the boats enter and leave when the tide is in. Any boats at the warf when this photo was take are sitting on the bottom, about 10 or 15 feet (my estimate) below where they will be when the tide is in.

More beach - the last post from Portugal

Since the beach is a main attraction in Albufeira, we spend as much time as is feasible there. Consequently, there are lots of beach scenes, many good ones.

So here are some more:

Small boy
Soccer on the beach
Wave on rock
Boy with dog
Last day

Lionel - the stone scuptor

We visited our stone carver friend, Lionel, once again and asked him to make another small sculpture for us. When we went to pick up the final version he had not yet placed the eyes in the dolphin so we spent 45 minutes watching him work and learned about how he started stone carving.

He had done wood carving in the past, but in 1999 he and a friend, a painter and sculptor, spent a summer on the beach near Albufeira where he learned stone sculpting from his friend. Because he loves it, he has been doing it ever since. He gathers the rocks from the beach at low tide and carts them home (John and I saw him by chance one morning on his way home with a large stone in a yellow plastic bag).

As he earns little from it he supplements his income doing house painting jobs in the area.

More beach

Second set of beach photos.
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The beach

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A few photos of some beach scenes in this and the next post.
The first set is children with or without parent; the second set in the next post is just, well, beach stuff.

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