First prize in the youth category: Adelyne Scheltema for “Determined Pollinator” First prize in the adult category: Terry Carpenter for “I Will Survive” Second prize in the youth category: Rihanna Scheltema for “Cotton Candy Over Water” Second prize in the adult category: Jean-Maurice Cormier for “Hiawatha Powwow” See the winning photographs at NFOTA’s Closing Ceremonies!…
Tag: Photography
Photo Contest Deadline–July 25!
The deadline for NFOTA’s photo contest approaches – July 25! Polish your lenses, be they furtive phone lenses, staring point-and-shoot lenses, or large, lunar SLR lenses. Lift your eyes and look around you at life emerging. Make your best images, and send in up to three. There is no entry fee for youth under 19. …
What’s Right in Front of Me by Donna Edmonds
“Photography takes some planning, research, ideas and of course luck, but in the end I am able to let go of my thinking mind and give all of my attention to what’s right in front of me and not what I had imagined it might be or how I had hoped it would work.” –Donna…
There is nothing at the end of any road better by Ted Amsden (Part Two)
After about a month in, I realized it was time to get a bit arty and include some documentary lingo in my thinking. Because, you see, it was obvious I was already waist deep in images, and going where none have gone before. At present, I have over 200 images of mailboxes, 700 signs, many…
There is nothing at the end of any road better by Ted Amsden (Part One)
There is nothing at the end of any road better than may be found beside it. Edward Thomas (1878 – 1917) I want to give a TED Talk today. About Wellness. I am not going to talk directly about the subject as no poet worth his weight in metaphors should ever speak directly about any…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Montse Alvarado
“I call Northumberland the cornucopia of Ontario…We have got so much of everything. The problem is not everybody knows.”–Montse Alvarado Today, Montse Alvarado, photographer and member of the Northumberland Hispanic Culture Club, speaks to Donna Wootton about the recent Diversity Festival, taking natural photos, and how the Pandemic has increased her awareness. In this series…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Kiara McKinley
Kiara McKinley took second place honours in the Festival of the Arts’ Photo Competition – Youth Category, in 2019. She was 16 years old. In this series we feature interviews and discussions with Individual Artists, Leaders of Arts Groups and Organizations, Civic Leaders, and other Arts Lovers in our county. Today, Cynthia Reyes interviews Kiara…
Announcing the Release of Our Pandemic Times e-book
This book began as a blog for a group of Northumberland writers in Ontario; a place where they could share their work and stay connected. Writing and reading these stories and poems helped to get us through. Our Pandemic Times provides a record of what we did, what we wrote, what we felt and how…