Gary McDonald "inRefinement" by A. McPope

I receive an email from Medium.com daily. In it there are essays written on myriad subjects. I usually read four or five that interest me. This morning they threw me a curve ball in that one of them was not an essay but, "The winners of this year’s 11th Epson International Pano Awards selected from 5,859 entries from 1,452 professional and amateur photographers in 96 different countries, a record for the competition." Have I mentioned that I had won a competition for photography on board Azamara Pursuit's Cruise Lines in January 2019? If not, there was over 2,000 entries from 350 photographers on board. The scenery at the bottom of the world and one half mile away from the frozen tundra called The Antarctica was nothing short of majestic. The professional photographers and students of the craft had a field-day, almost everyday out of seven that we cruised in and out of the inlets and passage ways of this infrequently travelled continent. The first photographs I will show ...

  This is a photograph of BeeGee. My youngest son Bob brought this puppy home from the Pet Store on Queen Street which was just around the corner from our home in Toronto. Three days later the oldest son Greg brought a kitten home from the same store. BeeGee and Septima (the kitten) were inseparable chasing each other all over the house for two wild weeks. Finally they settled down and realized that they would be sharing with the four of us for the foreseeable future.                                                                              Scarborough Beach Blvd. BeeGee went to obedience school because we were told that was the thing to do. Septima purred around the house and danced to her own tune without the advanced education that BeeGee was command...