Gavan P.L. Watson
So, I use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for importing and editing my photographs. Great program, but in the past couple of days, I’ve noticed that my primary hard drive has been getting quite full and I didn’t know why. After doing some investigation, I realized that the Lightroom catalog files were taking up a [...]
Week #3, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
Another Thursday night, another drawing lesson.
This week we had another still-life to complete, after a little demo on creating volume and depth. Nice to get the refresher and spend some more time actually looking at how shadows are cast and light is [...]
Week #2, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
A still life this week; while I’m happy with some of the details in the work, overall it feels a bit flat. We’re going to be working on creating volume next week, so we’ll see if I improve.
I like how the [...]
Week 1, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
I’m going to the second of ten drawing lessons at the AGO school tonight. Above is the product of my first week—it’s a charcoal sketch of a photocopied watercolour. And it’s not too bad, if I may say so.
I had an [...]
Hanging out, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
I’ve been posting some more Yukon & Alaska photographs recently–I went through my photos and realized that I had a bunch of neat ones (like this Yukon bumble bee) that I hadn’t taken the time have a good [...]
I’m picking up a second-hand SB-600 Speedlight from Jack this afternoon that’s missing the original manual. Nikon doesn’t make it that easy to get the manual and searching google for SB 600 Manual leads to a whole bunch of dead links. Here’s how I separated the wheat from the chaff:
On the Google [...]
Falling, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
I took this photograph yesterday and it’s getting quite the positive reaction from the Flickrites. It was taken from the apartment balcony and it’s the Toronto craft economy in action–one of our local “empties” collector earning their keep.
Today, sometime around 6:00 pm EST, the earth will be in the same approximate place in its orbit when I was born thirty years ago.
My life in a series of pie charts (all the numbers are years, rounded up or down as necessary):
So, you can see a great deal [...]
About me
I am an education researcher and practitioner, with a focus on higher education and the environment. I consider myself, above all, a naturalist. I'm the pack-mate of two border terriers. I live within the Speed River Watershed in Guelph, Ontario. I enjoy photography. I lead nature tours across North America. I teach courses on Natural History. I likely spend too much time on the Internet.
Oh, and the opinions expressed here are wholly my own.
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Shared New colour.
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Shared Counter's in!.
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Shared Finished floor.
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Shared Slate floor—entry.
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Shared Super sledding.
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