About Me And My Camera
Hi. My name’s Gabriel, and this is my photo blog. Mostly I take photos in and around Vankleek Hill, a Canadian village of 1900 people 70kms from Montreal, Cornwall and Ottawa.
I’ve lived in fifty-two places. I’ve been paid to pick stones out of fields, take backstage photos of Britney Spears, report on Internet privacy issues, and catch fish for American tourists in Northern Ontario. I’ve won an award for my reporting skills, and another for my humour column. I mostly deserved them.
Most of the photos I’ve taken in the past four years were taken with a Kodak C533, which was smaller than a deck of cards. It broke. Now I have a fancy Samsung WB600… the instruction book is 70+ pages.
Have fun commenting on my brilliance.
I like your photos Gabriel
December 12, 2010 at 3:52 am
I know, right? I am totally brilliant.
December 13, 2010 at 1:38 am
Thanks so much for your kind reply to my blog and for your kind offer to help me with mine. I greatly appreciate it. I will definitely start following your blog, so I can learn from you and others. Love that photograph of the purple flower, that is so beautiful. The shot of blood being drawn made me kind of dizzy though, not really good with needles and medical stuff. I’m a light-weight. LOL !!
August 24, 2011 at 8:44 am
Thanks a lot Jay, I was a little lost when I started five years ago, so I’m always willing to help.
August 25, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Hey!! Cool photos. Glad i found ur site! I’m looking for any info on the “McAlpin Fire” Wondering if you could help?
October 17, 2011 at 11:14 am
If you’re referring to the 1949 fire that wiped out McAlpine hamlet, near Vankleek Hill, then probably. What’s it worth to you? Because I could use a really good shoulder and back massage. And $20.
Or you could use Google. Thanks for liking my photos, feel free to come back and like more of them.
October 18, 2011 at 9:22 pm
LOL I would give u a good shoulder and back massage but my hands are very sore and crusty from building a house somewheres near where this fire took place! As for the $20, is an i O u ok? Just looking for any info on this devastating fire. Heard about it… and would like to research it a bit more. I have googled and found nothing. Mabe im just not too good a googling.
October 27, 2011 at 10:49 am
I found an article in the December 16, 1949 issue of the Montreal Gazette that covers the fire pretty well [link: here].
Take the date to the Review, you can ask the desk person and they’ll probably let you look at their 1949 December issues — bring some white cloth gloves. You can buy some at the VKH pharmacy for like $.08 / dozen. I give you my oath as a blogger, there will definitely be something in the Review about the fire.
I’ll let you off on the back rub, mostly because you’re a dude, and the $20 as well, but once the house is done I get to sleep over one night of my choosing. It’ll probably be Christmas Eve.
Google: McAlpine fire Vankleek Hill
I am strong in the Google.
October 27, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Well… Thank you! I’ll be back to chek out part II of Andrew vrs the willow troll. Thanx again. Hope to see you soon… If not, your stocking will be hanging by the fireplace! See you then. Jay
October 28, 2011 at 7:52 am
Haha cool pics
I told you I would check it out! I think you need a pic of Macewens though 
February 5, 2012 at 10:38 pm