Louella Lester – Seeing and learning while holding camera and pen between me and the world.
When there’s snow overnight, I like to get out to enjoy its freshness before everyone else. I want to get photos before footprints and dog pee ruin the opportunities for good shots. It’s beautiful when leaves or branches on the ground are almost covered, but still there for us to see, all delicate and minimal. …
The kitchen in my apartment has no windows, but in late fall and early winter the sun sinks directly outside the window next to my writing desk. Then the light sneaks through the doorway into the kitchen and shows itself off. No need for Christmas lights here.
I’ll be honest, I’ve never liked pigeons, especially after I once woke up to a large one, cooing and bobbing its head, as it stepped into my unscreened apartment window. I lay still, thinking of an article I’d read about an awful disease you can get from pigeon poop, hoping it would bob its way …
The more I exercise my eye, the more it catches for me. Those catches can turn into some interesting photos. So, I went wandering down some back lanes, which I love to do, and just let my eye wander—it caught a bunch of lines and angles. Enjoy! Now, because I am a bit of a …
There are four rivers, lined with thousands of trees, that flow through Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They often flood in the spring and also swell during heavy summer rains. There’s a walkway, near the city centre, that takes you along the Assiniboine River to where it joins the Red River at what is called The Forks. …
I decided I wanted to create some still life photos including leaves, so a friend and I went walking in our Winnipeg neighbourhood, including the Assiniboine River walkway, and collected a bunch of leaves. I took them home and here are the results. I started in the bathroom. Then the bedroom. And into the living …
There are a variety of trees, mosses, mushrooms, reeds, and flowers along the Brokenhead Wetland Interpretive Trail, which is less than an hour north of Winnipeg. The wooden walkway, seen in the feature photo above, takes you through an ever-changing landscape. I took a lot of photos while there in early September. What really caught …
This is the forest area where I grew up in Victoria Beach, Manitoba, Canada. It’s near the sand cliffs along Lake Winnipeg. The ground in the between the trees is covered with moss and lichens. There’s a mix of fir, spruce, aspen, jack pine and birch. We would sometimes gather strips of birchbark and use …
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This is where I grew up—Victoria Beach, Manitoba, Canada—a bit less than an hour and a half drive north from Winnipeg—on the shores of the Lake Winnipeg. A couple of friends and I went out there two weeks ago and I took photos, of course. My family lived about a five minute walk south of …
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You know that I like riding my bike down back lanes—stopping along the way to take photos. In the featured photo (above) you can see my bike resting while I take shots of an old garage. I love it when weeds and flowers push their way through concrete and gravel. I love that the garage …
