Louella Lester – Seeing and learning while holding camera and pen between me and the world.
There’s an art/light installation that was put up, years ago, at the corner of Osborne & Stradbrook in Winnipeg. The lights change colour and I’ve always loved watching it happen, especially on a winter night. Back in January, one super cold evening, I was walking home from a friend’s place and I stopped to take …
I love trees, with or without leaves. The vibrant shades of green in the spring. The cool shade on a hot summer day. The yellows, oranges, reds, and browns of autumn. The shelter on windy winter days. I love the bones of them. The shapes against the sky or a snowy landscape. It was a …
For some reason I’ve always like taking shots of stark minimalistic architecture, so there I was taking a photo of a concrete wall, a fire hydrant, and a No Parking sign, when two people cut through my shot. I kept snapping. Later, when I edited the photos, I decided to play with the vertical and …
Just to be different I decided to wait until January to share photos of lights. One night, while walking home from an outing, I decided to pull out my camera and take photos of some buildings in my neighbourhood. Many of them are not that beautiful during the day, but at night the lights make …
I’ve always loved hydrangeas in the summer, but also the way they look in the fall or winter when I come across dead blooms. I edited a bit for colour, using dramatic warmth and silvertone to bring out the beauty even more. I hope you enjoy the photos. Have a great holiday season! My book, …
This is the fifth season in a series of graphic stories, which I photographed and wrote starting in 2015 or so. I serialized each season of adventures by creating daily posts on Facebook. They developed a bit of a following, haha, and I have now decided to put them together as blog posts on this …
Continue reading "The Adventures of Plump Cow – Season 5: Rural Road Trip -Louella Lester"
I enjoy wandering around and taking photos in back lanes near my place, so that’s what I did one day just before the first snowfall in Winnipeg. I like the lines and angles in these shots. Enjoy! And by the way, if you're looking for something to do in Winnipeg on Monday, November 27th, you …
When it comes to photography I don’t have a style, other than being eclectic in my interests and using very little editing, most of the time. Minimalist photography is one of the many styles that I enjoy and concrete (cement) lends itself perfectly to it. When I wandered past this concrete barrier, along the sidewalk, …
This is the fourth season in a series of graphic stories, which I photographed and wrote starting in 2015 or so. I serialized each season of adventures by creating daily posts on Facebook. They developed a bit of a following, haha, and I have now decided to put them together as blog posts on this …
Continue reading "The Adventures of Plump Cow – Season 4: Cycling Trip – Louella Lester"
As you saw on the last blog, Jamie and I walked downtown for lunch a number of weeks ago. I asked him to point out 10 things for me to photograph on the trip there and another 10 on the trip back. Here are the 10 photos from the trip back, which I edited in …
Through Camera & Pen 