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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 23 and 24
June 11, 2015 - Today we begin our two-day ascent of the highest peak on the Camino Francés route. It starts gently. Today’s climb is a...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 21 and 22
June 04, 2015 - If arriving in León had been an experience in urban exploration, leaving the city was no less so. Its industrial fingers...
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A 55+ Walkabout
May 28, 2015 - Today’s walk materialized in minutes.
Gail and I are attending a 55+ Housing and Active Lifestyles Expo fair at a pro...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 20
May 21, 2015 - The walk into León is a wet but short 19 kilometers.
It's a rare opportunity to journey on foot from the perimeter of...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 18 and 19
May 14, 2015 - Rain. It has a way of stripping away sentimental thoughts. Yes, the colours are more vibrant. And there is a fragrance o...
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Plane Jane Redux
May 07, 2015 - Sixteen people joined us on a blustery Sunday afternoon as we wound our way through several Winnipeg neighbourhoods, fin...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 16 and 17
April 16, 2015 - The 21-kilometre tramp from Frómista to Carrión de los Condes takes us further into the Meseta. Here, the villages are f...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 15
April 09, 2015 - We left Castojeriz enveloped in a cool early morning fog, soon shot through with long shadows cast by the rising sun as...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 13 and 14
April 02, 2015 - Today we leave behind the big-city trappings of Burgos and head into the vast plains of the Meseta.
Occupying forty p...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 12
March 26, 2015 - The 26-kilometre path to Burgos crosses a vast swath of human history.
It starts with a midday traverse of Atapuerca.
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 10 and 11
March 19, 2015 - The 23-kilometre trek from Santo Domingo to Belorado contrasted two worlds.
To one side ran the slick, modern national...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 9
March 12, 2015 - Today’s 24-kilometre walk would lead us to three unique religious experiences.
We left Nájera at first light on anoth...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 7 and 8
March 05, 2015 - It was still cool and dark when we left Los Arcos on our long 29-kilometre journey to Logroño. Soon the blackness gave w...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 5 and 6
February 19, 2015 - It was the type of day on the Camino that you wish would never end. The sun soaked us in warmth, demanding that we remov...
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Raw:Almond, Creating a Place on the River
February 13, 2015 - Often the places we treasure have been hewn and refined over centuries. Others are fleeting experiences, existing for me...
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5 Day Art Challenge
February 12, 2015 - The 5 Day Art Challenge is an upscale, Facebook version of the old-fashioned chain letter. One artist nominates another...
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Clocks for Seeing
February 05, 2015 - From December 20, 2014 to May 3, 2015 the National Gallery of Canada will be exhibiting two of my photographs (shown in...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 4
January 29, 2015 - The 24 kilometre walk from Pamplona to Puenta La Reina illustrates the ongoing significance of the Camino to Northern Sp...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 3
January 22, 2015 - “Pilgrim, you are in the Basque Country”
So proclaims an anonymous tagger on the sidewalk leading into Pamplona. It w...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 2
January 15, 2015 - Our second day on the Camino was one of spiritual opposites.
Arriving in Roncesvalles, after having crossed the low P...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 1
January 08, 2015 - It starts with a steep uphill grind, a small test of our mettle as long-distance walkers. Can we survive this first day,...
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A Wintertime Walk to Vietnam
January 02, 2015 - On this second day of 2015, I could be photographing the fluffy layer of new snow frosting every tree branch I see throu...
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Walking the Shore: Remembering Two Realities
December 27, 2014 - Ten years ago today - December 27, 2004 - my wife and I were about to start an early morning walk. We were in Coquitlam,...
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Twelve Days of Winter
December 12, 2014 - Day 1: River Ice, Winnipeg
Day 2: Bruce Park, Winnipeg
Day 3: Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, Winnipeg
Day 4: A...
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Ten Holiday Gifts for the Walker
December 10, 2014 - Searching for that ideal gift for your bipedal friends and loved ones? Here are ten ideas geared to the pleasure and art...
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Prague at 3200
December 04, 2014 - I love walking around cities late at night. The streets are cool and quiet. The hoots of late night revelers echo throug...
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Walker’s Tools: In My Camera Bag
November 27, 2014 - Here’s a look inside my camera bag. A very unusual bag indeed in that it is so diminutive, so minimal and so unlike the...
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Walker’s Tools: A Review of the Olympus OM-D EM-5
November 20, 2014 - In this, the first in a series of blogs reviewing the tools of a walker, I will take a close look at my current camera o...
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Walking Styxx: Thirty Days
November 13, 2014 - One month. 30 tracks. 132 kilometres in total. 4.4 kilometers per walk on average. That is the numeric summary of the wa...
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Walking Styxx: Halfway There
November 06, 2014 - Here begins a new project involving a dog, his doting father and their month of walks.
Styxx, shortened from his orig...
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Flash Photography Festival On Foot
October 30, 2014 - There are many reasons for taking a walk. One is to chase photography.
2014 marks the inaugural year of the Flash Pho...
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A Tale Of Two Walks
October 22, 2014 - On September 29, 2014 Gail and I were leaving Mistlebach in Austria on the second last day of our 600 kilometre walk alo...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Vienna Views
October 16, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 600 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
The ine...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Seen in Salzburg
October 10, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 600 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
After 6...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Our Last Day
October 02, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers (or so) from Prague to Vienna.
A m...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: A Homage to Pumpkins
September 30, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
It is our s...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Crossing Borders
September 29, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
The next tw...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Mikulov
September 27, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
Mikulov is...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Border Patrol
September 26, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
It is not t...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Znojmo
September 26, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
How fortuna...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Through No Man's Land
September 23, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
The 34.5 ki...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Mushrooms
September 22, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
The walk fr...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Grandmother's House
September 22, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
Some days c...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: To Slavonice
September 21, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
Leaving the...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: A Day in Telč
September 19, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
Looking out...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: A Tail of Two Dogs
September 19, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
It is hard...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Long Hard Days
September 18, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
We leave ou...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Road Apples and Other Relections
September 17, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
Leaving Tabor...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Tabor Meetings Festival
September 17, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
Tabor was the...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: To Tabor
September 17, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
Our exit from...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Two Days of Trails
September 12, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
Having discov...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Day Two and the Discovery of Trails
September 11, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
Setting off f...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: First Day on the Greenway
September 08, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
Today is the...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: Prague
September 04, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna. These are just a few image...
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Prague to Vienna on Foot: We Set Out
September 01, 2014 - A series of posts following David and Gail as they walk 480 kilometers from Prague to Vienna.
As any walking...
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A Dérive to the Airport: Breadcrumbs
August 25, 2014 - When I set out on my walk to the airport, it was truly a last minute decision. I left the house with nothing more in min...
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Introducing WalkClickMake
August 09, 2014 - Criss-cross rhythms that explode with happiness.
That’s the translation of Osibisa, the name of a Ghanian music group...
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