On The Bay photographer Doug Burlock shares the stories behind some of his favourite shots
Wandering downtown during one of Collingwood’s Frozen in Time winter festivals, this artistic ice carver at work captured my attention as he transformed a huge block of ice into a beautifully sculpted piece of art.
All photography takes a measure of patience (and sometimes the good luck of being in the right place at the right time), and this is especially true when photographing wildlife. I was sitting on a rock beside a pond early one spring morning photographing wild swans and geese when out of the blue a beautiful robin landed right beside me. The robin’s breast was aglow with the soft early morning light as I quietly turned my camera for this shot.
She was looking in the direction of the late afternoon sun, her one blue eye facing in my direction, the soft light setting her face aglow, and I couldn’t resist pointing my camera in her direction and capturing this image. She is a five-year-old Paint named Ceremony Sunrise, and as is fairly common in Paints, Pintos and Appaloosas, she has one blue eye and one brown eye.
Vintage vehicles always catch my eye, and this brilliant red beauty parked on Collingwood’s main street during a classic car exhibition was no exception. It literally drew me in; hence the interior shot that resulted.
The sun was setting and it was quickly getting dark outside when the last bit of daylight touching this yellow Gerbera daisy caught my eye as I was out photographing some local wildlife. I knew that in a few minutes the flower would be shrouded in darkness, so I quickly snapped this photo before the sun completely set.
These siblings, Hunter (left), Holden and Harper Pugliese-Lisi, struck a classic pose for me with two of their ponies looking on during an indoor photo shoot in their barn. I love the timeless feel of this shot in black-and-white.
I was helping out with an Admiral Public School fundraiser in Collingwood and during the photo shoot for their annual “Sail into Summer Festival” fundraiser, I captured this image of a group of younger students in the playground with their legs dangling. This image and a series of others were printed on canvas and auctioned off at the fundraiser to help raise money for playground equipment, etc.
Most of us think of the moon lighting up the night skies along with a myriad of stars, but on some days if we look up we may spot her in the blue skies of broad daylight; such was the case here. What really caught my eye on this day were the swirling white clouds, which created the illusion of the moon rising up out of the clouds. In reality, the moon, somewhere in the neighbourhood of 238,000 miles above the earth, was nowhere near the clouds, but the image created by cloud and moon from down here on earth was pretty amazing and I called it Moon Rise.
The water had just a slight ripple and the sky was painted with cloud formations as this 112-year-old tug boat, the Glen G, made its way into Collingwood Harbour where she docks for the summer. Built in Ohio in 1909, she is 62 feet long and weighs 42 tonnes.
