Over the past few years, I will often take an on-line class to inspire me with new approaches to my abstract photography. I was feeling like I was in a rut, so last month I took a course that provided different ways to think about my images as well as different ways to editing them. Here are a few of the results. Of course you knew that there would be lots of texture with random circles thrown in. Some things don't seem to change.

A few weeks back we took a short trip to the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta. While we were there we visited the historic Medalta Pottery which operated from 1916 to 1954. One of the rooms had slats in the wooden floors to allow steam to rise from the basement to dry the clay. We took a walk through the basement and the shadows of light coming from the floor slats was the start of this image that I call My Garden as it reminds me of tulips.

My Garden

Sometimes it feels that everyone in the world has heard of the Calgary Stampede but it you haven't, click on the red link. I went with a friend this year who wanted to photograph the midway. I chose to focus on the brightly coloured structures of the midway.

I hope you are enjoying your summer. I would love to know what you think about any of these different groups of images.