Holiday baking time! (Find Holiday baking from 2007 here, 2009 is here, 2010 baking here and here. Not sure why there’s no baking for 2008!)

Yummy Peppermint Chocolate bars, from a recipe printed in the Toronto Star years ago, plus Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies (find the recipe here):

Had to run out to Yonge Street to do an errand, captured some holiday lights/decorations:

Kris Kringle cookies and Easy S’mores Fudge (find the recipe here):

One more shot of the gift bags:

Quick blog posting, a few photos from a recent shopping trip to the Queen Street West neighbourhood:

A catch-up blog posting today.

A few weeks ago I was at the iPhone 4S launch at the Eaton Centre Apple Store, a few images:

My daughter celebrating her recent birthday:

My sister’s cat, Finnegan, came to visit for Thanksgiving dinner and Rebecca’s birthday celebration. Alice was not amused, but she tolerated the visit (they look very similar, and yet different, Alice has the fluffier face).

The last Halloween parade at my son’s primary school! And look at this cute puppy! She’s a cross between Bernese Mountain dog and a miniature poodle, called a Bernedoodle. And the last one is Maddy the poodle dressed up for the day:

Here are some images I captured Halloween night:

A few images from the last two weeks.

Adorable dog in my local park:

Trip downtown to the Eaton Centre and back:

Alice has a new cat toy:

This past Sunday was cool and wet, perfect day for baking. These Molasses Cookies were delicious:

I saw a great cat photograph on Google+ which motivated me to get out with my camera on Saturday, looking for cats out and about in the neighbourhood.

I met Denise, and just love her one orange paw, isn’t she adorable?:

This is James, he lives in the same house as Denise:

I also met a puppy (+ few more cat photos):

On Sunday Noah and I headed out to do some errands, at Whole Foods, in Yorkville, and then over to Yonge Street:

Kept it light, and just took my old Canon 5D and the Canon 50 f1.4 lens:

Captured a few shots of Alice on the back deck when we returned home:

A collection of nature photography images I’ve captured over the last few weeks.

(Equipment: Canon 1DMkIV with either the Canon 85 1.2L, Canon 100 f2.8 Macro or the Lensbaby Composer lens.)

This image was shot wide open with the Lensbaby composer:

This collection of images was captured with the Lensbaby Composer:

Discovered this hornet on my deck last Friday afternoon. Could tell he wasn’t long for this world, as he couldn’t fly:

The next morning I found him on the deck, he became my still-life subject for the weekend:

A few images from this past Saturday, downtown shopping for back-to-school for my daughter on Queen Street West. (All of the following were shot with the Canon 1DMkIV and the Canon 24-70 f2.8L lens.)

Exiting the subway:

A treat we shared during a coffee break, trading in the old converse running shoes for a new pair, and Queen Street West:

Weighted down with all our (her) shopping:

Then a few shots on the way home from the subway station:

Catch-up blog posting of some recent iPhoneography.

Some Toronto street photography:

A few random shots:

My still-life subject of the month

The best camera is the one you have with you, if you would like to learn how to photograph and process images on your Apple iPhone, check out my iPhoneography Workshop.

Jessika is a friend who needed some headshots, so she dropped by for a quick shoot the other night (all of the headshots were taken with the Canon 1DMkIV + Canon 70-200 f2.8L IS lens):

A few goofy faces to have some fun, and doesn’t she have simply goregous eyes?

Was at my mother’s for dinner the other night, and did a little Milo stalking:

My mother’s neighbour Susan and  her dog Brady:

My mother’s garden:

Catch-up blog posting of some of my recent iPhoneography shots. All of the following were taken and processed on the iPhone 4.