Boo!

Fall Colours 2009

... colours are splendid at the moment ...
a mini slide show follows...

Fun with Polaroids-!

... the walk-about ... VIDEO

NB: Dateline: Oct 22th, 2009: If you are seeing 'no video' or are receiving a 'jerky, jittery' video, don't despair. VIMEO is experiencing 'technical difficulties' ... I've been assured this will be 'fixed' in the next few days ... I'm leaving this video up 'as is' until the end of the month so they can perform their techno-magic. Will see where it's all at then (...geesh. comPUTahhhs...)



The summer of 2009 was lousy here, weather-wise. Fall has been better, but, even so, kinda pukey. There WERE, however, a few stellar days during September that kinda made one want to go SILLY!

Sooooooo, guess what?
Yup, I went on a short & silly 'walk-about'.

As you can see, there's nothing very SERIOUS here, nothing EARTH SHATTERING, BIG or BREAKING!! I is just offering a quiet little five minutes two-step shuffle between me, my Self and I.

... sometimes those really are the BEST moments ...

Toronto Fall 2009

Just spent four daze ZOOMING around Toronto, catching up with friends & places after 10 years ...

This wee soundless-slideshow documents several choice encounters with Toronto-centric 'time & space'.

It's a bit rough, but I think it does the trick.

Toronto is a great YOUNG metropolis, a very KEEN place. It's backbone WAS Anglo, but it's future is TOTALLY multi-cultural.

Perhaps that is why so much of the 'new' architecture is so splendidly STARK, and seemingly 'simple'.

Toronto presents itself INTERNATIONALLY as 'ethnic neutral'.

At the moment.

@ The Art Gallery of Hamilton

The Women's Art Association of Hamilton

115th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday,
September 26th, 2009

Cocktail-style supper @7pm
& Silent Auction 'til Midnight

The Joey & Toby Tannenbaum Atrium
@ The Art Gallery of Hamilton

For more info about the WAAH, click here.
Art Gallery of Hamilton, click here.

PLUS, two musical performances & door prizes.
Senior Curator, Tobi Bruce &
AGH Director, Louise Dompierre officiating.
TICKETS: $50 per person
Contact: waah.events@gmail.com

For preview of Silent Auction catalogue, click here.

'Granny's Lounger', 4/4, 2005 -
Pinhole Photograph by MLH

Oil + Soft PASTELS by mlh

'Dream Bug'

I mentioned earlier in the year that I would 'post' some of my pastel work. Here you go. These, and others, have been done over the course of 20 years, give or take. What follows is fairly representative. Again, there is a 'sampling' of both OIL & SOFT pastel. If you're interested in purchasing the original, (or photo reproduction), let me know. Also, in advance, I apologize for the watermarks in the centre, but I've HAD to do this cuz of 'copiers'... Sorry.

'Cedar Hedge'

'Hole in the Woods'

'Pine Tree' - SOLD

'Wind Swept Road'

'Native Greek'

'St.Johns, Newfoundland' - SOLD

'Haida Gwaii, West Coast' - SOLD

'Killarney' - SOLD

'Buffalo Bill', Mount Nemo, Ontario

'Turtle Doves on the Pond'

'Emperor Penguins'

'Cave Drawing' - SOLD

'Trickster'

'Barn Door-One'

'Barn Door Two'

'The Lake at Dawn'

So, what do you think? Do you like these?
Do you have a favourite?

(Sizes are varied, mostly 20x24, or 9x10, and a few are already framed. The items that have sold are available as 'photo repros' ONLY. Let me know, if interested. Thanks.)

'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."