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Dianne
Mccarthy
🇨🇦 Canada
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With us
2 years
With a graphic design and commercial printing background, I’ve always enjoyed photography as a point and shoot hobby. The pandemic provided a timely opportunity to develop my skills through iPhone Photography School’s online courses. Today I prefer capturing and creating images with my iPhone 12.
Winning photos
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
by Audrey Hepburn🪻
“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch — we are going back from whence we came.”
by John F. Kennedy 🛟
For me, this window display accurately portrayed the word “melting” from the summer beachware & potted palms to the hot reflections.
83rd Collection“A ship is safe in harbour, but that is not what ships are built for.”
by John A Shedd, Salt from My Attic.
Amazing sunset sky following the cancellation of a rare, Tornado Warning for much of central Ontario, Canada on June 13, 2024.
82nd CollectionStrong contrast, depth of field and an unusual perspective all contributed to a powerful black and white image of local logging work.
81st CollectionYear after year, the Muskoka/Adirondack type chair with its simple shape and classic design is a memorable image of summer. Come sit a spell.
81st CollectionThis is an heirloom Sensation Lilac known for single purple flowers with white borders. It’s been part of the Canadian landscape for generations.
81st CollectionGeorgian Bay is located entirely within the borders of Ontario, Canada and known for deep blue waters, west winds, white pines and long sand beaches. Year round, it’s a favourite location to photograph.
80th Collection“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”
by Ted Grant one of Canada’s greatest post-war photojournalists.
I liked the calming effects of muted colours which give viewers the chance to slowly take in everything within the photograph and appreciate all of its details.
79th Collection“As the pastel colours take over the sky, there is something that brings out joy and peace to the body and soul.”
by Suvarna Arora
“In the bleak mid-winter / Frosty wind made moan / Earth stood hard as iron / Water like a stone / Snow had fallen, snow on snow / In the bleak mid-winter / Long ago.” ❄️
by Christina Rossetti published 1872
One of the very rare days of sun in Ontario (Canada) this winter, I liked the golden, heavy sky, the silvery smooth foreground and the curls of the iron boat sculptures.
76th Collection“Autumn... the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
by William Cullen Bryant 🍁
“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” 🍁
by Diana Gabaldon
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” 🍁🍂
by Virginia Woolf
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonize.” 🍂🍁
by George Eliot
This water tower is located in Washago (from Ojibway meaning a place of ‘clear and sparkling water’). Once used by the railroad it is the 1st stop northwest of Toronto for Via Rails’s CANADIAN.
73rd Collection