mikko and tanya 

Sean 

I can't think of a comment for this one 

boardwalk sunset 

Ashbridges beach on Lake Ontario, one of the
Great Lakes. Often called inland oceans, they
really are huge. Here's some facts from a
website called great-lakes.net :

VOLUME

6 quadrillion gallons of fresh water; one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water (only the polar ice caps and Lake Baikal in Siberia contain more); 95 percent of the U.S. supply. Spread evenly across the continental U.S., the Great Lakes would submerge the country under about 9.5 feet of water.


TOTAL AREA

More than 94,000 square miles/244,000 square kilometres of water. (The area of Great Britain is 58,000 square miles)

About 295,000 square miles/767,000 square kilometres in the watershed (the area where all the rivers and streams drain into the lakes).


TOTAL COASTLINE

United States and Canada -- 10,900 mi/17,549 km (including connecting channels, mainland and islands). The Great Lakes shoreline is equal to almost 44 percent of the circumference of the earth, and Michigan's Great Lakes coast totals 3,288 mi/5,294 km.

the pilots

Kurt and Wayne, father and son, Air Canada pilots and sweet guys.

girl in red 

wine glasses 

flower girl 

Sari colours, it was the most colourful wedding ever.. Uyen Chi is Vietnamese-canadian, Jared is Canadian, they have friends from all over the world, Japan, Sri Lanka.. my eyes couldn't absorb all the colours.. hope some of the photos do them justice.. 

wedding preparations 

moulann looking innocent 

diva moulann 

moulann venting 

moulann 

girl in hat 

Scott 

wedding party snippet 

mystery niece #2 

Jo-ann and dylan 

Alastair's cello 

uyen chi's dress 

fazila  

and a sadistic afghani prison-guard moment 

brandon having an eddie murphy moment 

brandon enriquez having a angsty moment 

my mom turning 80 this year 

Yee and Brayden 

Brayden in the tulip garden 

mark and mark 

moulann bouncing off the walls again 

Roger and Spencer 

three boys against green door 

three boys on sand 

three boys in high park 

Amber 

three boys multiplied by three 

Summer, flying 

photographer photographed 

sock monkey in the studio 

kurt kooy 

wayne kooy 

best friends 

owen herrell, musician 

and the Queen of sparkly lipgloss 

caterina is a star 

ricardo's all time best goose photo 

see what I mean? 

uyen chi and jared in competition for the cutest couple in the world. ;-) 

woman at Humber bay 

woman walking on Dundas at Keele 

yo yo baughn 

Mark with a tiny angel 

zimmy, famous Toronto artiste and midwife. 

moulann, not moving, for once. 

patricia moser, CPO, VP of Rogers Communications 

rock climber at Rattlesnake Point 

the best chip shop on Queen St. West. Chippy's... yummy curry sauce. 

and more 

architecture abstract 

more golden hour shots 

golden hour reflections at the airport  

and more 

ricardo's ansel adams cows 

beach art 

richard's shot at kelso conservation area 

mal in hat 

stone studies 

his satanic majesty requests 

jennifer without headscarf 

jane's hallway 

james macneil CD wizard 

jacquelene 

photographer at large 

more poppies 

richard's poppy series 

primal scream 

stan endersby.. famous canadian musician and old flame. 

kensington market, the popcorn man 

pipe puzzle in etobicoke 

trying to outrace the storm, but we didn't. Hailstones the size of golf balls. 

Christopher Keith ex senior Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange, they call him the wizard of Wall Street. 

Salma was very huge in Bollywood in the 80s. 

Fuad, who is shooting a FOX tv pilot in Los Angeles. It's a medical drama series, like ER. 

Some work for a dentist who does smile makeovers. This will be a poster in her office. 

Kurt, Air Canada pilot 

my friend, Chris "Columbus" got a new camera.. this is his sweet granddaughter Sydney. 

Richard's skyline of Toronto. It's sometimes tempting to think of Toronto as the center of Canada. ;-) But in fact, the real geological center is somewhere quite different. I was a little awed to read this. Canada is so freaking huge. Facts from Canadian government website:

Extremities of the Canadian Landmass

* Most northerly point: Cape Columbia, Nunavut; 83 degrees 7 minutes North, 70 degrees 22 minutes West
* Most southerly point: Middle Island, Ontario; 41 degrees 41 minutes North, 82 degrees 40 minutes West
* Most easterly point: Cape Spear, Newfoundland: 47 degrees 31 minutes North, 52 degrees 37 minutes West.
* Most westerly point: A long portion of the Yukon-Alaska boundary which runs along the 141st meridian. The point at the southern end of this line would be the furthest west. This is at: 60 degrees 8 minutes North, 141 degrees 0 minutes West.

Centre of Canada

The centre of Canada can be measured in many ways. The most readily understood would be by taking the mid-point of the extremeties of the Canadian landmass section, above. The resulting location (62 degrees 24 minutes North, 96 degrees 28 minutes West) is located just south of Yathkyed Lake in Nunavut, about 150 kilometres northwest of Arviat, Nunavut.

 

Dundas St across from AGO 

complementary colours in Unionville 

detail of brooms 

Queen and Peter Sts 

downtown Toronto 

sepia study 

mallory morphed into painting 

the wall 

tanya and mikko 

ricardo on the Bruce Trail 

skaters on grenadier pond 

sarilyn as pierrot

the pigeon man at Queen's Quay 

tanya and mikko 

cabbages at the market 

a tiny ear 

photographer in cafe on Queen St West 

shapes at 999 Queen St. 

Gardiner at York 

bridge

mal's eye 

my dad trying to remember 

my dad who has end-stage alzheimers and my mom who is trying to cope 

Mal with leopard gloves 

elfin bride 

ricardo and mallory 

Caterina and friend 

love them 

morning bath towel textures 

the mystery niece 

roots at the Distillery

crazy legs 

tropical plants at Humber nurseries

portal into the forest 

Toronto Mounted Police Unit training exercise 

my aunt Truus from Holland, who is 90 and still travelling the world alone. 

sarilyn and stanley, old friends 

royal york hotel from ACC 

old building at Cherry beach 

mushrooms on Manitoulin Island 

toronto actress Vivian Lee 

artist at E2W

Roach Killa recently signed by 2point9 records in the U.K.

drew climbing 

Dot at the Tulip Restaurant

lifeguard chair, bluffers park 

richard pulling a shopping cart out of the lake at cathedral bluffs

dot and miss kitty 

my son the cellist 

my son the elf 

that aussie cowboy 

Hugh, CIBC VP 

richard's work again 

my take on it 

richard's work 

teddy in the helicopter, Mallory's lap 

shadow at Credit River 

runner at Ashbridges boardwalk 

beachstones 

lake ontario rower 

cujo and david sharing a stick 

David found this little red rag man nailed to a piece of wood, washed up on the shore of Lake Ontario...  

those darn cows.. 

Andrew playing Bach's prelude something or other in the secret garden..

Dorothy with Captain Chris Acerbo at New York City Police Mounted Unit. 

an artist's palette at James Gardens 

david at Humber Bay 

great smile at the pow wow at Wikwemikong Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve No. 26 is nestled on the eastern side of beautiful Manitoulin Island and stretches across both Georgian Bay and Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada.

Wikwemikong is recognized as Canada's only Unceded Indian Reserve, meaning that the Wikwemikong Band has not relinquished title to it's land to the government by treaty or otherwise. "Wikwemikong" translated means "Bay of the beaver".

Buddhist monk living at Humber Bay. That's a photo of her and the Dalai Lama. She had it in her little cart. 

pioneer village great shot by Richard 

ricardo's beach art 

old shoe on the beach 

Caroline Hubberstey, Director, Public Affairs and Media Relations for the Canadian Bankers Association. Beautiful, smart and also great to work with..and really, really funny.. 

Luke Selby, (DJ Starski) a real sweetie. 

it's a hard job but someone has to do it. 

men in black 

Richard's photoshop kitsch 

Toronto Climbing Academy 

sarilyn and her daughter corinna 

Queen Street West, same day 

Queen Street West 

I don't know why, but I really like this photo. Down at the lakeshore, old abandoned building. 

Toronto lawyer Rosemary Marotta who is volunteering her time for Saving Boyd Park 

I love this one 

Jesper and his daughter Caterina 

sarilyn 

boardwalk 

cujo in better days 

Jennifer 

Wayne Kooy pilot 

Jesper, visitor from Denmark 

Leo, corporate headshot 

Fazila, internet privacy lawyer for Montreal feature article. 

music lawyer, Jason Klein, for Montreal magazine feature article. 

richard captures rainy downtown morning 

Dr. Shusterman, renowned Canadian eye surgeon 

Michael McCarty, president of EMI music publishing Canada 

big head talks to little head 

Toronto musician 

Naomi Overend, Toronto lawyer at Upper Canada Law Society for a feature story in Montreal magazine.

corporate headshot 

the truck shoot 

Bollywood director Upinder 

moulann in motion 

dancer, Jacquelene 

ricardo 

Summer, my eldest niece, fitness model, athlete.

and Levi, my only nephew. 

Coco, my youngest niece 

now I feel obligated to post all the nieces. This is Andrea, Canadian Idol top 100 finalist 

NOT another of my relations. One of richard's shots.. up at Humber Arboretum.

another niece, Mallory, tonight at Bloor and Keele in the graffitti alley

another niece, Mischi, who is a fantastic writer. I have a bevy of nieces. There should be some other word... let's see... a hysteria of nieces... a gossip of nieces.. a pestering of nieces ;-)

rattlesnake point - off belay

where all these crazed ideas come from 

One of ricardo's shots 

a not so secret geological formation on the niagara escarpment... acres of red hills.

fazila against red wall

and Drew, more recently, climbing at Buffalo Crag, photoshopped patriot-like by me. 

an ancient photo I took of Drew when he was tiny. he had a great affinity for worms.. and rescued these from his dad's fishing basket.. and liberated them into the garden.. 

.. and sometimes you get asked to do the strangest photos... 

Roger Weaver retiring from Toronto Police Mounted unit this month on Spencer.

a sweet client with her babies.  

Love this one of Richard's.. during the reception, the bridal party kept retiring to this tiny room/closet where they were like sardines in a can. Whatever they were doing in there looked like fun.

since Ricardo can't be arsed to make his own blog I'll put in a few of his special ones. This was Uyen Chi and Jared's wedding day.. all done in photoshop, in his inimitable style.

Queen Street West again, shop window, love the hand on the bottom shelf.

Drew, Thomas and Douglas mugging for the poster advertising their play for school. And no, the beard isn't real. 

dj at E2W productions

since I didn't take any photos today, I dredged up a detail from an old favourite. I really love the textures here. It's my old friend Sarilyn. 

face of madness

David's little driftwood man, sunbathing

golden hour shot.. reflections of a reflection...

cujo's very bad day

poor pup. The gentlest soul in the dog walking club gets his ear nearly torn off .. very bad news. An hour operation, a 500 dollar veterinary bill and a very miserable dog.

When that little voice in your head screams "No freaking way, you silly cow" it's a good idea to listen, lesson learned at climbing gym last week.

my ex dave

Love this one too. Craig was in that Brit series called Hollyoaks .. along with some other shows as well, like Home and Away.

n o w o r r i e s

What a great shoot. Craig Lane an Aussie actor (he's playing the lead in a feature movie they're shooting this month in Muskoka) He's just here for another 6 weeks. Anyway, Craig's a super guy and a lot of fun to shoot. I think we got some good stuff.

my number one muse, ricardo the pensive one.

photographer

meet your meat

If you think these little guys are cute, please download this movie. And for more information on why eating veggies is better than eating animals, check out Richard's essay on his website

Mickey, Toronto actress and good sport (she let me spray water on her) ... hang on, I think it was HER idea ;-) 

The devil's cabana boy.

..experimenting with complementary colours on unsuspecting beach loiterer.. turquoise and brick orange/red are great together. Ricardo has made a little colour wheel and mathematical solution for complementary colours in photoshop if anyone's interested.

strange photobooth person 

niece without pearl earring

Queen Street West utility pole with decades of staples. 

my favourite links

Here's an old link page of mine when I had more time on my hands.

http://www.annedehaas.com/links.html

We were biking up the Rouge River valley in the middle of nowhere and found this furniture just sitting there.. It was all uphill to that point so it didn't take much convincing to get Sally to pose in the LazyBoy. That's the "white trash" pose she's affecting there..because I forced her to do it... in real life she's very refined and elegant and holds her pinky up when she drinks tea.

LSYC at Colonel Samuel Smith Park Lake Ontario in the golden hour last night. 

And in the "Hope Springs Eternal" graffitti category... 

Stream of consciousness eco-graffitti at Humber Bay.. you have to love the person who stood there and defaced this light standard in such a poetic fashion. Or not. 

Ricardo's beach art ... wave-tumbled brick bits at Humber Bay on Lake Ontario. 

Collecting graffitti pics on Queen West when I noticed these two dear old ladies pobbling along. I missed the shot the first time they passed and was kicking myself. They went and sat on a bench and I hung around for a bit and they eventually got up and walked back the way they'd come, right past the graffitti wall.. bingo. 

one of the Tibetan folk who work at the King's Cafe in Kensington Market, a great restaurant with really friendly staff.

Ricardo getting jiggy with the sock monkey 

Brandon Enriquez, Toronto actor/comedian doing a little emoting.. 

Messing about in the studio with actress Amber who has the most amazing hair.  

Mark, jazz guitarist extraordinaire 

Moulann and Mark 

More about Boyd

http://www.saveboydpark.ca/
 
 Park Features

Boyd Conservation Area is an oasis at the edge of the city. Located in the City of Vaughan, just north of Toronto, the steep-sided Humber River Valley and tall trees offer a quiet refuge to the public. When combined with the Kortright Conservation area just to the north, the Boyd Ecological Complex is 2,500 acres of greenspace.

The Ministry of Natural Resource's records indicate the historical presence of one provincially endangered and two provincially threatened species within the area. The park contains 11 mammal species, 10 amphibian and reptiles, at least 237 plant species, 28 of which are species of conservation concern. The park represents the southern limit for many species.

The Park forms part of the Humber River natural heritage system. On September 24, 1999, the Humber River was designated as a National Heritage River. Construction of the Pine Valley Extension and bridge threatens this national treasure. Proposed construction activities could involve de-watering in excess of 50,000 litres per day. Other threats include stormwater run-of, erosion, siltation, contaminant spills, construction impacts, groundwater contamination and impacts on local wells. The Humber River in Boyd Park supports the nationally threatened redside dace, an exceptional fish that leaps into the air to snatch its prey. The site also contains robust wetlands that sustain numerous species and biological functions.

According to the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, the Pine Valley Drive Link will negatively impact the larger ecological function of the Humber River natural heritage system. The solution is to include Boyd Park as part of the province's proposed Greenbelt, connecting this treasure to a larger, provincial-scale natural heritage system, called NOAH. NOAH would connect our province's most essential environment features, from the Niagara Escarpment, to the Oak Ridges Moraine, north to Algoquin Park, and finally to the Adirondack State Park in New York State.

Worth fighting for? I think so.

Here's a photo we took for the Friends of Boyd activist group who are trying to stop a road going through the Boyd Conservation area which is a delicate ecosystem worth saving...  

this is how photographers decompress.... some photographers anyway... Richard being one of them. 

my website

In case you didn't link here from my website, here it is:
 
http://www.annedehaas.com
 
 

Moulann and the Marks 

This is Moulann, an amazing Toronto musician. She's become my favourite muse. She's beautiful, athletic and completely at ease in front of the camera. Great for trying out new lighting arrangements.

Patricia Moser was a terrific subject. Patient and gracious and lovely. 

July 16 2004

It's been a great week. Weather's super, taking a break from photography, recharging my batteries..

Got a surprise in the mail on Thursday, two copies of a magazine with my work on the cover. It's a good feeling. Thank you Richard, couldn't have pulled it off without you.