Janglin'

All my friends ditched on me for new years! That's a stunning fact I had never anticipated. So I made different plans, twice, and those fell through! So I stayed in the photolab in solitude until morning. Then I hiked Cadillac with these goons, and it made me feel like maybe this year would be different that all those before it. If it was worse than this past year (Bog rest its' rotten soul) than maybe I'm slightly better prepared for it. I just hope things get better, although I never stop doubting that there's worse on the way.

Invictus

 Inside Aubert Hall.

This was a quiet day I spent with a friend sitting in a cave by the ocean.

 We sat there under the cave, and the moments we lived; they felt so concrete. One of my most cherished days in my life actually, even if it didn't seem it.

 Another idea I had, it came out okay I think.

 I took this photo back in August in Montreal. When I took it I didn't think much, it was interesting and I was curious. Now I realize what it represents for me, it represents a sense of the unconquered. The transcendence of being, that maybe there's something more than this. I think often that we lose sight of what's real. We start looking at just the simple pleasures, and forget that there could be more. It's escapism, it's ideal, it's the "might have been".

 This is one of my friends, Megan. This is the very last photo my poor old Pentax K-1000 ever took.

And this is the first photo my new Pentax K-1000 took, I solarized it using the same method a Japanese photographer I'm familiar with used way back.

La vie n'est jamais certain, elle est floue.

Oh Baby You, You Got What I Need

 A table shot of Parliament Hill from Le Musee des Beaux-Arts

 This is how Ottawa heals: l'hockey.

Best photobomb ever.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

 This is a portrait of Elitsa Papazova of Quebec and Bulgaria in Parc de la Fontaine Montreal. I really love how her eyes turned out. It actually does some justice.

 This is a portrait of Professor Emeritus Raymond Pelletier in Tenants Harbor, Maine.

 This is a portrait of Virginie Salilou of Brest, France, and Augusta, Maine. It did not develop properly.

 These are a set of experimental photographs I took.

 Busy, busy, busy.

Beneath the epitaph read "Can't buy me love because Nancy said so." Experimental photography abounds.

Upside down and backwards

Thank you for showing me this cave! It was extraordinary.

Aloof

Very recently I have developed a new sense of freedom. I don't know what it is, but I drive past my exit on the interstate and keep going. I drive by my house instead of going directly home. I wander a lot more than I have been.

Times Flies

 We live on a wet round and crowded rock called Earth. It is the only rock that we know of that has life. We are a significant insignificance in the universe. I think that's what lets us see the beauty within ourselves and on Earth.

My friends in their natural habitat.

Les Monts Verts

 "What's the name of your blog?"
"XXIVhours.blogpsot.com, it's just the roman numerals for 24 and then hours dot blogspot dot com."
"What's the name of your blog again?"

I love this picture.

 He ate the stick just after I took this picture.

Church Street