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Shutter Speed: A new start, a new car and more racing!

November 21, 2009

I struggled through until spring and realized I needed to get either back to North Bay or head for Toronto where my parents now lived. My Father had been offered a senior position with the Globe and Mail. It was an offer he couldn’t refuse so they moved to the big city. I decided to [...]

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Shutter Speed: My art takes me away from all I know

November 13, 2009

The summer came and went with more parties and another trip south to Mosport and the exciting world of racing cars. Around this time a quick phone call from my brother Jim presented a new chapter in my young life. Jim, as I mentioned before, was a photographer. He was the principal photographer at the [...]

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Bluetooth review: Plantronics Voyager PRO

November 4, 2009

When I originally wrote about my intention to review a bunch of hands free Bluetooth options, I mentioned that I had no experience with Bluetooth headsets. I suppose I should have clarified that while I’ve never used a headset, I do regularly use the handsfree Bluetooth system in a good number of the press cars [...]

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Shutter Speed: The new gang and the good times

October 27, 2009

Work was now a lot of fun! I’d get some neat assignment like shooting a football game or covering a fire or accident for the sports and the news departments. Best of all I got to drive my Healey and got paid five cents a mile to do so! The television station was set high [...]

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Shutter Speed – from rural Ontario to on your knees in Monaco

October 4, 2009

The journey to the grid and life as a photographer by Allan De la Plante

So I’ve got your attention for the next few moments. Being new to blogging I have been told by the ‘blog masters’ I can probably hold that attention for the same time it takes you to sit on the toilet and [...]

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Yes Virginia, there is a snow tire shortage

December 2, 2008

Something very interesting has happened in Ontario this year and consumers don’t believe it. We have just about run out of snow tires! Every year, certain sizes begin to become scarce midway through January and onwards due to the realities of an industry that plans their inventories over a year in advance. Thanks to a [...]

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Connecticut: What a weird place

October 19, 2007

While I’ve only been here a day, Connecticut is weird. Firstly, it has to be the whitest place in the world. That in itself is odd, when you consider how ethnically diverse the place is. It’s hard to describe the vibe here. The closest thing I can compare it to is that it feels like [...]

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