I have been beavering away, as you may have noticed, building my online portfolio. Everything is very much under construction, but the...

My wife, Lisa, and I spent a couple of weeks in Portugal in 2005. We visited Sintra, a beautiful town stuffed with castles and palaces,...

One of my earlier designs, made from a fall foliage photo I took down by the Fraser River. An effect here that I absolutely love is the...

Strong, clean lines combined with soft background focus, all in a mildly psychedelic palette. Return to Portfolio Return to Abstract

This one has an Art Deco, Buck Rogers-y kind of feeling. The copper tones help a lot with this, along with clean lines in two-point...

I love the irony that a design so soft and gauzy started out as a photo of back alley grittiness on the side streets of Glasgow. It looks...

My attempts to reinvent myself as a graphic designer require me building an online portfolio. Although I've been thinking about it, and...

I have an unusual perspective when it comes to shopping for rural property in Portugal, in as much as I have never stepped foot on a...

I was just memory-strolling by reading my old Livejournal page, kept during my Great Big Europe Trip, 2005. I was going to retell the...

I'm talking property here, of course. Land. If you wanted to escape the proverbial Rat Race, put on big rubber boots, and create a rural...

Alone in Kyoto Photo by Simon Jowett, published as Public Domain in the Creative Commons via Flickr. Here is his description: "Today I...

A look at ex-pat homesteaders who are vlogging their experiences in Central Portugal via YouTube. More or less off-grid in Castelo Branco.

This is another work-in-progress. More a place for notes and references than anything else. Comparisons between Trump's version of...

Here's an interesting project that I have simmering away in the background. Through the design work I did for Luke and Sarah's Off Grid...

I have worked at a local scene shop, the GNW or Great Northern Way Scene Shop, in some capacity for over a decade. Weekly staff meetings...

When I started this blog/website, the Pandemic had just started and I was only about four months into recovery. These two factors...

I probably should have mentioned this in a previous post, but we moved house on May 01. We are finally fully extracted from the old...

Kumpupintil Lake: "Kumpupintil Lake is about 160 kilometres long and located 300 kilometres east of Newman. The 33,000-hectare...

If you are looking for graphics, photos, and imagery that you can use for free in any way possible, including commercially, here are some...