Welcome !

Welcome to my photo-blog. Included in these posts you'll find some of my favourite copyrighted pinhole & digital photographs PLUS a taste of my other fine art work - like my signature 'Canadada' - "naive-surreal-folk-abstract" - oil paintings ...

'In Dad's Wake', June, 2009, oil by mlholton

Make yourself at home. Browse the works, select your favourites, leave a comment or two, (... your feedback helps ALOT ...), if interested in licensing or purchase - contact me - and, most importantly, ENJOY!

Up-coming events:
(... for maps & more info, see detailed posts below ... ).

Solo Exhibition, June 6th - August 16th, 2009
Reception: Sunday, June 7th, 2-4 pm.
The Homer Watson House & Gallery
Kitchener-Waterloo - Map/Info, link here.

Margaret Lindsay Holton
Golden Horseshoe Artist
Lake Ontario, Canada

'Slooow Photography: Pinholes by Margaret Lindsay Holton'

'Amarylis Shadow' - pinhole by mlh

@ The Homer Watson House & Gallery
1754 Old Mill Road
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Opening: Sunday, June 7th, 2009, 2-4pm
Running thru til August 16th, 2009

The Homer Watson House & Gallery is homestead of Homer Watson, Canada's first noted landscape artist (1855-1936). The Gallery, constructed in 1906, is one of the oldest operating galleries in the Province of Ontario. Watson's early Victorian house was also the home of the renowned Doon School of Fine Arts during the 1950's and 60's and drew such artists as Fred Varley and Carl Schaefer.

More info & detailed directions, click HERE

LAUNCH: Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Well-attended & graced by both a Federal MP AND local City Councilor, the 19th Annual Homer Watson Exhbition is now underway for the summer ... To see further examples of my pinhole works, please look at February & March 2008 posts on this blog ... and/or click on 'pinhole photography' in the sidebar ...

There is a great review by Robert Reid of the entire exhibit featured in The Kitchener Record - click here.

Excerpt follows: "... 'Slooow Photography ... A Pinholer's Passion' consists of 22 photographs taken with various handmade pinhole cameras constructed from a small cardboard box and an assortment of product tins - pretzel, tea, coffee & shortbread. ... At a time when photography has been hijacked by computer and digital technology, Holton reminds us that, at its most basic, photography is a contemplative art form that relies on the source and sustainer of life -- the Sun."

Doon Heritage Village, Waterloo, Canada

5 minutes by car (... 25 minutes by foot, lovely walk beside the Grand River...) from the Homer Watson House & Gallery is the Doon Heritage 'Crossroads' Village, a 'living' Mennonite village with 60 acres of sights & period structures. You'll find lots of ideas here for 'local produce' organic farming & rustic rural design. Walking around the 'compound' jettisons you into another time & place, everything is 'slooow' & pleasurable ... Great fun for the whole family and WELL WORTH A VISIT. ... Funny, ain't it, how 'what's OLD is NEW again' ...











Click 'here' for link to gardens at the village .... Also, if coming from abroad, note that complimentary guidebooks are availabe in English, German, French, Japanese, Portugese, Braille and large-print.

Earth Day, 2009 - Holy Peepers!

.... this is my first 'video' post, shot in April 2009 (finally posted here), and yes, it's kinda rough without editing or title/slide lead-ins, but hey, ya gotta start somewhere!

This particular shot blew me away and seemed a fitting tribute to 'Earth Day, 2009' ...

End of June - The Beginning of Summer ...

... I do so love those aromatic life-affirming peonies ...
ah well, NEXT YEAR -

- Time to Grill !!