Elisa

Mid-morning light in a garden

Just in between a coffee and a late breakfast, I decided to wander around a communal garden. There is a lot to see, and the tiny details are always beautiful. This shrub, known as bottlebrush, is a f…

Pillar and skylight

Two years ago I was running some errands and saw this wall. I couldn't resist taking a few shots. The light was right or I was passing by at the right time, I don't know. The pillar goes to the skyli…

The colour in a bunch of thread

My grandmother was a true master with yarn and thread. She embroidered, knitted, crocheted, and sewed. She made beautiful tapestries, blankets, handkerchiefs, sweaters... You name it. I still keep mo…

Ecological footprint

I don't know how many times I have walked this same path in the last forty years. I know I have seen these footprint. Until this afternoon, I had not seen a picture. It was late in the afternoon and…

Two very different self -portraits

Looking back at my pictures tells me how fast we change and how different we look as days go by. That is not, and cannot be a surprise, of course. Let us just call it a testament to life. I took this…

Crisp

Back in March a fire broke near home. Those were some tense hours. A few trees and a dry patch burnt, the fire department was overwhelmed and the neighbours had to help with hoses and buckets. One of…

Blurry photos at a subway station

Who on earth would dare to post blurry, low quality photos on a photography community? Not even me. Why would anyone want to show blurry pictures at all? Well, there may have been a story behind thes…

The squash and the clover, second

Portraits of my Mother: a post that should have been three years ago

A long time ago, I showed you a portrait of my mom. As I wrote then, she does not like to be photographed. What I did not tell is that my mother was about to release an album and the producer was ask…

Slowly coming back

It's been a while since the last time I published anything. I have thought of it many times, and almost published a long postponed piece on the tenth anniversary of a trip. It'll be for the twelfth,…