“When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys not to meddle with my toys!” – Robert Louis Stevenson If you believe roller skates should have keys, made a game of picking up wooden sticks with painted ends, created endless works of art with the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Artifact’
Toys! Toys! Toys!
Posted: 6th May 2013 by Mrs. Toad in Olde School, PhotographyTags: Antique, Artifact, Canada, HDR, Heritage, Museum, Photography
18
A Quarry’s Story
Posted: 26th April 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in Island Hoppin', PhotographyTags: Antique, Artifact, Canada, HDR, Heritage, Landscape, Marine, Ocean, Park, Photography, Vancouver Island
History is such a fickle lady, elevating certain stories to levels of yore while others are soon forgotten, lost forever in the ether of time. History can be centered around a tale woven in the fabric of time a millennium ago, or it can share an allegory from recent times. What factors affect those stories [...]
Mrs. Toad And The Case Of The Missing Links
Posted: 22nd March 2013 by Mrs. Toad in Olde School, PhotographyTags: Antique, Artifact, Canada, HDR, Heritage, Museum, Photography, Vancouver Island, Volunteer
History is like a scavenger hunt. It rarely presents itself in any sort of tidy and immediately appreciable way, choosing rather to leave its prints scattered in every direction of possibility. As if someone took the whole story, tore it up into tiny pieces and released it into the air, to be carried by the currents [...]
These Shoes Were Made For Walking
Posted: 1st March 2013 by Mrs. Toad in Olde School, PhotographyTags: Antique, Artifact, Canada, HDR, Heritage, Interior, Museum, Photography, Vancouver Island, West Coast
Put on your dancing shoes, walk a mile in my shoes, and for goodness’ sake, don’t step on them, especially if they happen to be made of blue suede! It amazes me how many ways we find to pay homage to the simple shoe. Sure, they keep your flippers warm and dry, and I’ll be the first [...]
A Time Before Satellite TV
Posted: 26th February 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in Olde School, PhotographyTags: Antique, Artifact, Canada, HDR, Heritage, Interior, Museum, Photography, Vancouver Island
Have you ever wondered what people did for entertainment 100 years ago? Back then, there was no such thing as 697 channels to choose from, as a matter of fact there was no TV! There, I said it. I know it’s near impossible to believe, but trust me friends, it’s true. Today, there’s almost a [...]
It’s For You
Posted: 15th January 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in Olde School, PhotographyTags: Antique, Artifact, Canada, HDR, Heritage, Interior, Museum, Photography, Vancouver Island, West Coast
Today’s communication devices often come with advanced forms of interfaces, allowing the user to take more than one call at the same time, and in many cases send photos and videos while on a call. This might come as an absolute shock to some, but this wasn’t always the case. In today’s world you could [...]
Gauging Interest
Posted: 9th January 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, Two Toads in WonderlandTags: Art, Artifact, Canada, Forest, Gallery, HDR, Landscape, Photography, Vancouver Island, West Coast
Art is highly subjective, what is beautiful to one person may not be so to someone else. Techniques, methods and meanings maybe controversial or obvious to some, yet not to others. There are as many opinions out there on a particular piece as there are art lovers. This is one of the things that makes [...]
Letters Home
Posted: 31st December 2012 by ToadHollowPhoto in Olde School, PhotographyTags: Antique, Artifact, Canada, HDR, Heritage, Museum, Photography, Vancouver Island, West Coast
There is just something special about receiving an envelope, especially when it comes from friends or family. Whether the words were handwritten or carefully clicked out on a typewriter these notes were always a highlight, an extraordinary treasure to cherish. Today’s modern age finds us sending notes like this digitally, and as a result something [...]
The Untrained Eye
Posted: 27th December 2012 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, The Toad's Tonka ToysTags: Antique, Artifact, Canada, Cowichan, Forest, HDR, Heritage, Photography, Trains, Vancouver Island, West Coast
To the untrained eye, you might see a bunch of old iron and steel. To the enthusiast, it’s a portal into nostalgia and romance. For well over a year now we’ve been featuring periodic posts showcasing some of the really incredible artifacts and historical machinery we encountered on our day long visit to the BC [...]
Lessons From The Past
Posted: 28th November 2012 by Mrs. Toad in Olde School, PhotographyTags: Antique, Artifact, Canada, HDR, Heritage, Museum, Photography, Vancouver Island
If you were to describe a school in contemporary language, you would undoubtedly use words that together paint a very different picture than if you were to ask someone from a hundred years ago to do the same. Gigantic, multi-storied buildings that house hundreds of students every day, with miles of endless corridors dotted with a multitude [...]
