Usually as we set out to create a new blog here at the Hollow, Mr. Toad will give me some incredibly inspirational photos and then we put our little green heads together until we put the last period at the end and call it a wrap! But today, perhaps because it is finally Spring and suddenly [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cowichan’
These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things
Posted: 17th April 2013 by Mrs. Toad in PhotographyTags: Boats, Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Landscape, Marina, Marine, Mountains, Nautical, Ocean, Photography, Vancouver Island
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The Rusty Truck And Topaz Labs Detail 3 Plugin
Posted: 9th April 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, ReviewTags: Antique, Canada, Cowichan, Duncan, HDR, Heritage, Photography, Rust, Texture, Trucks, Vancouver Island, Weathered
Recently we were contacted by the terrific folks at Topaz Labs with a request to try out their brand new Topaz Labs Detail™ 3 Plugin for Photoshop. Time is critical for us here at The Hollow and thus any chance we get to try out new software and techniques can be very exciting. Any tool [...]
Looking Out View
Posted: 4th April 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in PhotographyTags: Boats, Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Landscape, Marina, Marine, Mountains, Nautical, Ocean, Photography, Vancouver Island
It’s been a rough week here around The Hollow as it seems that I picked up a bit of a bug. And we’re not talking about the delicious, fly-like kind, either, we’re talking about the kind that puts a trusty toad straight into the Lily Pads where he needs to rest for a few days. [...]
Chief Tzouhalem’s Mighty Mountain
Posted: 11th March 2013 by Mrs. Toad in PhotographyTags: Boats, Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Landscape, Marina, Marine, Mountains, Nautical, Ocean, Photography, Vancouver Island
There is just something purely magical about the quiet hours of the morning. Those fleeting few moments that belong neither to the night nor to the day. As if the world is unaware that you are watching, or simply doesn’t mind. Uninterrupted by the clatter of everyday life, it is a time that belongs to each one [...]
Anchor Watch
Posted: 19th February 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in PhotographyTags: Boats, Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Marina, Marine, Nautical, Ocean, Photography, Vancouver Island, West Coast
A ship’s bell clangs in the distance through the fog. By the time it hits your ear it almost sounds muddy, as if the thickness of the fog in the air weighed it down. As the echoes drifted across the bay and slowly subsided the gulls began to fly past, never afraid to let their [...]
The Heart Of Duncan
Posted: 13th February 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in Photography, The Toad's HometownTags: Architecture, Canada, Cowichan, Downtown, Duncan, HDR, Heritage, Landscape, Photography, Trains, Vancouver Island
I’ve found myself wandering around the Cowichan Valley lately, sometimes rather early in the morning. And as such, I am finding treasures in my own backyard once again. It’s been said many times before that new compositions and studies can be found by revisiting places with strong subject potential. Join us today as we take [...]
Old Stone Butter Church
Posted: 7th February 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in PhotographyTags: Architecture, Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Heritage, Interior, Landscape, Old Stone Butter Church, Photography, Urbex, Vancouver Island
As photographers, many of us have our places that we love to return to often seeking that ultimate shot. The subject is so compelling you just know locked in the scene lies a masterpiece awaiting discovery. For me, my place is Old Stone Butter Church built in 1870 on Comiaken Hill in the beautiful Cowichan [...]
High Above Heaven
Posted: 4th February 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in PhotographyTags: Canada, Cowichan, Forest, HDR, Landscape, Mountains, Photography, Vancouver Island, West Coast
A day so thick with fog you can’t see to the bottom of your property. A day so thick with fog you feel as if you’re the last remaining living being on the entire planet. A sense of solitude, a sense of absolute stillness… a creepy sense that only seems to pass by finding others [...]
Frozen Patties
Posted: 21st January 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in PhotographyTags: Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Landscape, Photography, Vancouver Island
Now, before we jump into today’s post with both flippers, let me prepare this by saying we’re not sure that any of the cows in today’s photo are actually named Patty at all. Being married to one of the sharpest minds in the drawer lends itself to times of great hilarity. Such was an afternoon [...]
A Winter’s Morning On The Bay
Posted: 7th January 2013 by ToadHollowPhoto in PhotographyTags: Boats, Canada, Cowichan, HDR, Landscape, Marina, Marine, Nautical, Ocean, Photography, Vancouver Island
The air was so cold it was thick. I swore that you could cut it with a knife it felt so heavy. Frost sat on everything exposed in the marine landscape, and even direct sunlight for a period of time wasn’t enough to get rid of it. And through it all, a light foggy mist [...]
