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photography on Flickr

I upload photos to Flickr. I’m old school like that.

Lessons into the sunset
Thanksgiving Sunset
This Valentine's Day, say it with owls!
Stellar
Melting Icicles near Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
Illyrian Colony on Hetemit IX (Ontario Place)
Gears of War 2 - modded XBox 360 and controller
Biking the Toronto waterfront on the winter solstice
"Everybody Was In It From Miles Around"
Cherry Blossoms in the wind, High Park on Mother's Day
Beautiful Day for the Bluffs
Not your ordinary Sakura Watch
Lunar Eclipse: Composite of timelapse shots
FractLOL!
Christmas Tree 2002
Toronto: Zero to Snow in 10 seconds
Lots of night sky colour (no Perseids)
"Blue Mystique" Orchid Strand
Northern lights over Tromsø, Norway
One star at a time
3 Generations of Streetcars (and 1 cool bike attachment) in one photo
Not a bad view for a morning conference call.
good morning Toronto
Kitesurfing lessons against sunset
oirish kitteh tinks:
Georgian Bay with surf.
Taking the Mawg for a walk
Canada Day Campfire smoke and stars
Jim prepares Trev for the tightrope
Supergirl at Fan Expo
Delta IV launch from LC-39 at Kennedy Space Centre
Hamilton Beach milkshake machine
Tomb Raider at Fan Expo
A Quaternion Day Out - Broombridge
Merry Christmas from Toronto!
Moondance
San Francisco
akakakakakak (Oct 2003)
Holds of the Thistlegorm
Christmas night's stars over Georgian Bay (Orion)
National Productivity Centre - Virtual Earth Case Study App
Wheels and wreckage, holds of the Thistlegorm
Ed gets the day started
Toronto skyline from Oakville
One star at a time (end of dock edition)
Merry Christmas from Toronto!
Awesome bidet control
The Blue Hole, Belize 037
Water in all its forms
Synthetic Characters @ MIT Media Lab 30th Anniversary
Coming to carry us home
Happy Solstice from along my bike commute!
All eyes on the final few meters
Halo break.
Most. Comics. Ever.
BCIT airport hangar
2010 Olympic Torch Relay, Wasaga Beach, Ontario
Cabana
Silverlit Vista, Georgian Bay
Half and Half
Foggy TO
Colors of New York
Leaves already on the ground
Biking the waterfront on the winter solstice.
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Awesome bidet control
What a Delta IV launch looks like when you mess up your Aperture
Can we stay here?
One Perseid Meteor
Star Trek and Chill
Headed back home
Bill Gates at the TechReady keynote
The Most Interesting Cat in the World
Bobcaygeon: "riding on horseback in Bobcaygeon while the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time in the style of the Group of Seven"
Montreal Biodome
Candyland
Georgian Bay Clouds at Sunset
Georgian Bay Grasses in the wind
Autumn Grasses
Georgian Bay Grasses in the wind
Moody Georgian Bay
Colourful fish on the reef
Robert Burke Mugshot
Hummingbird
Cloud (the actual kind)
Steve Ballmer fires up the Microsoft techies
Royal York Hotel Clock
May the road rise to meet you...
Waterfront looking great
Ireland flag lighting up Niagara Falls on Paddy's Day 2017
Autumn vibes
Moody Georgian Bay creek
Dublin, Dawn
Queue for the boat (safety stop)
Sakura Watch 2021
Supermoon 10:30PM EST
Chippy, our Chipmunk in Residence
Jake Lloyd a.k.a. Annie
Sakura Watch 2021
Penguin Domestic Dispute in Progress
Irish Times NPC Article
Jabonehenge
Boim Chapel, Cathedral Square, Lviv
a single snowflake
A Boston South Station Welcome
Kate Mulgrew at Fan Expo 2008
Fiddler's Green: "balloons all filled with rain for a boy in Fiddler's Green" **
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Foundation.
Flatiron Building
For your shading pleasure
Anyone for a swim?
Bill Gates at Mix06
Night sight full moon
Flores Town Parrot
Vancouver Olympic Torch at Sunset
Thugs: "bird plucks a hair from a sleeping dog to build her nest, Studio Ghibli style"
Silver Jet: "a heron outside in violet light"
Splash
CSI: Roomba
Canadian Anticipation
Husky Eye
Building Communities of Purpose
Totality Cool
Niagara on the Lake view
Spring in Niagara on the Lake
Satellite Cyclone
Good morning Toronto (again)
cute overload
Shark above!
Dune
Hunting Perseids - Night 2
Hunting Perseids - Night 2
Loons on the Lake
Signs of Spring
Harajuku Fashion
Pumpkin Kitteh
Night Reflection
Jumping Into the Unknown
Mid-Year Check-in
When Orchid Rehab doesn't go to plan, and you improvise...
Very LOTR somehow
Kittehlight
Rays of Light, Tikal
The Shot that follows The Shot Requiring Accompaniment by Epic Orchestral Music
Airplane Engine on the mountain
Bill Gates at the TechReady keynote
high as an elephant's eye
Autumn Sunset
Crisis Mundial Capitalista (Cuban Road Signage)
Bali Rice
Anchor winch
Stay frosty
Canadian Standoff
Poisson Distribution
Humber River looking Group of Seven-esque
Highly suspect there may be a demagorgon in here
Spring, is that you?
Red-tailed hawk
Massage Therapy - You're Doing it Right
Celebrating the weekend!
Elmo dressed as Hello Kitty dressed as Elmo
David Prowse a.k.a. Darth Vader
Colours of High Park
Microsoft Canada office sunset
Night Sky, Mazinaw Lake
Great Horned Owl
Today - Driftwood. Tomorrow - ?
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Red-tailed hawk
Spring!
Signs of Spring
Bamboo Forest
Cave Diving in Dos Oyos - Turquoise Entrance
The Space Cowboy - Extracting the sword
Painting the Trevi Fountain
Mono Cliffs Hike 2022
Good morning
Party 'Til You Crash!
Media Lab labs
Is it true teh camera puts on 10 pounds?
Happy Sunflower
Night Sky, Mazinaw Lake
Dahab Fire Show Silhouette
Making a Splash
Toronto Air Show 2023
San Francisco
Autumn Coming at the Pond
French Canadian New Year 2011 Fireworks, Montreal
The Space Cowboy - explaining how to extract the sword after he swallows it
Fireworks: "it's wintertime, the house is solitude with options"
Sakura Watch 2021
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Rail passes and train cards
Colours of High Park
Canadian Anticipation 2025 Edition
sums it up, really
Falcon
Ce Soir
Prayers for the New Year, Notre Dame
2010 Olympic Torch Relay, Wasaga Beach, Ontario
Lighting a candle, Florence Duomo
Ice Floe Flow, Chicago
Cherry Blossoms at U of T already!
Greasy Jungle: "greasy jungle, metropolis noir"
Barracuda (or is it a Tarpoon?) and Diver
The Blue Man Group musicians
Orange greeting
Don't Wake Daddy: "sled dogs after dinner close their eyes on the howling wastes"
long wave at Brookfield Place
Venetian architecture
"Gord Downie's face so full of meaning as to almost make it glow" (It's a Good Life if you Don't Weaken)
moody TO
Milky Way over the Bay
That night at Wasaga
The difference a day makes
eight... nine ... ten
Toronto Banksy Rat
Curious about
Storm Trooper Bride?
Wreckage in the hold
Lombardo, on Rambla de Catalunya
Mono Cliffs Hike 2025
Toronto Air Show 2023
Toronto Air Show 2023
Cherry Blossoms in High Park 2019
Cherry Blossoms 2015!
Autumn's In the Air
Night View Over Manhattan
Surface 2 Attract Screen
Shafts of Light
Summer's Slippin' Away Sunset
Startled Raccoon
Light
The EMEA gang at MIX06
Mosaic Tiles
Alice gets gelled up
Where Sarek meditates (Woodbine Beach)
Cherry Blossoms in High Park 2019
Berry nice
Reflections of the past in the future
Flooding along the Portage Diversion
Hello Kitty Toilet Paper
Shaved Kitty
Me and My Buddy
May Twofer Sunset, Georgian Bay
Microsoft Ireland Country Dinner
Windows RSS Platform overview slide
A Quaternion Day Out - Broombridge
Toronto
Nature's Spotlight!
Backlighting
The Dire Wolf: "somewhere far-off, peaceful, sleeping and done with acting"
Lookin' at Ewe
On the steps at WPC
Northern lights over Tromsø, Norway
papillon
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Toronto Air Show 2023
Illyrian Colony on Hetemit IX (Ontario Place)
Peek-a-boo
Snowy Owl
Accidental Renaissance captured during the flat repair
Stanley Park loves you too
Moody Autumn Georgian Bay
The Ultimate Sushi Platter
Fenix Rescue Capsule at PDAC 2011
Beautiful food, beautifully presented
'Sup?
Incredibly useful
Isabell and the Awesome Cycling Hair
National Productivity Centre
Rotation
MIX07 Welcome Pack Contents
Canterbury
Ahead by a Century: "illusions of some day cast in a golden light"
Mr Hummingbird
The Game
Buffalo on the horizon
Snowstorm Yay!
Bamboo Forest
Garden Guardian
Snow Glow
Fire Escapes, Chicago
Volcanic Vista
The Space Cowboy - in goes the sword
Reflections of Venice
DALL·E 2023-10-04 22.15.27
All the colours
Peloton
Remote Touch by Egg: Siggraph 2011 Emerging Tech
Barrels O' Goodness
First Perfect Snowfall (Results)
Isabell, back on the swing in NotL
this dude implements IScannable
Lara Croft and Catwoman
Holds of the Thistlegorm
Siof & her Mum at Mayrhofen
Close-up on the bizarre things
Dmitriy demos Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals
Delicious spider snack
Rays of light, Croagh Patrick
Transitional
Transition Season
Playground colours
Mono Hike 2025
Making a Splash!
Chicken Jockey?
2025 let's go.
2025 let's go.
Mono Cliffs Sept 2024
Moonset (final moments)
Redwoods
Redwoods with fam for scale
DALL·E 2023-10-04 21.25.26 - Realistic image of raccoons racing in water, with splashes around them. The sun sets behind the Toronto skyline, casting a warm hue over the scene
Toronto Air Show 2023
Toronto Air Show 2023
Toronto Air Show 2023
Once in a Blue Supermoon Aug 30 2023
At the Hundredth Meridian: "driving down a corduroy road, weeds standing shoulder high, Ferris wheel is rusting off in the distance"
this is begging for a caption...
Crescent Moon Georgian Bay Sunset
HauntedPhoto Album : Siggraph 2011 Emerging Tech
Rocky Mountain High
Sunlight through the trees
Kitteh Lurve and Nuzzling
The Space Cowboy - down it goes
The Space Cowboy - ready to drop
The Space Cowboy - wielding his sword
Hedgehog and Fox
Boreth Monastery (Knox College)
Georgian Bay at its most iconic
Suddenly, my lawn doesn't look so bad.
Kentucky Greek Chicken
Toronto Skyline Summer Sunset
Carpetastrophe
Passing of the Torch, Wasaga Beach, Ontario
Bailout Bitter
The Bay's Toronto Christmas Display, 2008
Mario riding Yoshi?
Tikal Jungle Skyline, Closeup
Little green dude
Liz, Jay, Timber and Aspen - going up!
Scarborough Bluffs in autumn
Mossy Shadows
Balance
Prince Charles visits Farmer's Market in Wellington, Ontario, Canada
Moon
Kentucky Greek Chicken
Roomba these shenanigans are not OK!!
Armadale
Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto's Golden Temple
U2 Album Cover Shot!
ROBL (Rolling on Bed Laughing)
Smokin' Hot Something: Olympic Torch at Sunset
The Bay's Toronto Christmas Display, 2008
Perspectives
Eye flyaway
Shark in the distance
Hajar hangs on
New(ly reactivated) Dublin Water Feature
New(ly reactivated) Dublin Water Feature
The Monkey Monks of Vang Viang
A Quaternion Day Out - Broombridge
Toronto Air Show 2023
Great Horned Owl
Delta IV on the launchpad moments before launch
One Perfect Leaf
At the Butterfly Conservatory
Bike Repair station at Harvard
TechDays Ottawa
Harajuku Rendezvous
Flame at Parliament
The Bay's Toronto Christmas Display, 2008
Caesar Explains...
Dublin from the Dublin Mountains
New Year's Eve's Eve Sunset, Georgian Bay
Little friend
Siofra's Gold mirror (plus fish)
Pinewood Studios
With a little love from Google on the saturation front
Near-supermoon
Physical Pixel Array Height Distortion Interface : Siggraph 2011 Emerging Tech
Water Temperature Diffusion Visualization : Siggraph 2011 Emerging Tech
Creature Under The Rug : Siggraph 2011 Emerging Tech
Physical Pixel Array Height Distortion Interface : Siggraph 2011 Emerging Tech
Water Temperature Diffusion Visualization : Siggraph 2011 Emerging Tech
Video Game in Physical World : Siggraph 2011 Emerging Tech
Grass Blowing Remotely in the Wind: Siggraph 2011 Emerging Tech
Flooding along the Portage Diversion
Georgian Bay Winter 2010: "No Lifeguards"
Random Popstars Photo Op
Great place to stop and sketch
A little bit of autumn colour
Suspended
Into the trees
Mix08 - Venetian Silverlight
Cafe at Zulum Cabanas
Crisp Autumn Air
I HAS APOSABUL THUMZ!!
Offering
Dalhousie Lake, Early Autumn
Morning rain, Shannon airport
Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral
Spooky Alleyway, Hidden Accoms
Siofra's Christmas decorations
Clare prepares to walk the Mawg
Twilight Marin
It's gotta be done
Don't Wake Daddy: "sled dogs drift past strips of Serengeti and the gates of Sleepy Hollow too"
Hunting Perseids - Night 2
From the lookout
Driving in The Six
Blue Heron at North Rustico, PEI
Blimp Display : Siggraph 2011 Emerging Tech
Roomba do you remember our little talk about MODERATION?!
Do you like my hair like this?
Happy Easter!
Japanese Maple Along Philosopher's Walk, Kyoto
Bamboo-Chilled Drink
With thinking cap on
Sunwapta Falls
Geoprobe
For Dear Life
Famous Obama Cookies!
Watchful Eye
Tikal Jungle Skyline
The Monkey Monks of Vang Viang
A Quaternion Day Out - Broombridge
Mono Hike 2025
Mono Cliffs Hike 2025
At OSCs 2025
Spectacular PEI
Spectacular PEI
Spectacular PEI
Spectacular PEI
Spectacular PEI
Cherry Blossoms 2025
Crescent.
2025 let's go.
Montreal Bike Lane
Carl Laidlaw 2024
Autumn Sunflowers
Autumn Sunflower
Misty Marin
Canadiana
Very starry night
Scarborough Bluffs in Autumn
Don Valley in Autumn
Don't Wake Daddy: "sled dogs drift past strips of Serengeti and the gates of Sleepy Hollow too"
Silver Jet: "a heron outside in violet light"
Toronto Air Show 2023
The promise
Hunting Perseids - Night 2
Timelapse: Shadows of the #SuperBloodWolfMoon #LunarEclipse
Merry Christmas from the shores of Georgian Bay
Autumn glow effect
Probably the sky the architects had in mind
Siggraph 2011 Emerging Technologies Videos
Niagara is in bloom
Snowstorm Yay!
Feel the cool autumn air
TechDays Ottawa
Harajuku Girls, Listen Up!
Sushi boat
Toad Rock
Marilyn Monroe as coffee art
Marilyn Monroe as coffee art
Sunflowers 2010
Under the Bridge to USA
Blue Dip
When the conference is o'er
Shafts of Light
Long Wave
Winter Terrace
Sandtree
Silverlight Treasure Hunt - Scott Hanselman, Silverlight Luminary
Christmas Bunny
Snow and Canadian sky
Jungle Rob
See the face?
Makeshift sombrero
National Productivity Centre
Jabonehenge
The Mazinaw Lake Crew (closeup)
The Mazinaw Lake Crew
many fish
Tucking In
Newgrange in the Spring 1
Tromsdaltinden
Decisions, decisions...
A grassy trailer
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A thoughtful Siofra models Cerebus
Loons on the Lake
He can see it
Charlottetown Gold Cup Parade
Published April 18, 2012By Rob Burke
Categorized as Photography
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