jamesdeagle

Some moments of tender love.

Oh yes, the birds show us how tender life can be as they know that life is short. Some lovely shots of two little Swee Waxbill birds to show us some realities i...

Pinhey's Point Historic Site

Pinhey's Point Historic Site is a waterfront estate in the rural Ottawa community of Dunrobin. The overall property, as well as the estate house that is its cen...

Cruise Night, Early Summer

First things first--I'm not a "car guy", at least not in the typical sense. Ninety-nine percent of the time, a car to me is just a means to an end, a machine th...

Galetta: A Pictorial Travelogue

Galetta is a small rural community about a 13-minute car ride northeast of Pakenham. It is also the (other) Mississippi River's) next and last stop before conve...

Pakenham: Small Town Idyll on the Banks of the (Other) Mississippi

One of the things I've always loved about living in Ottawa, Canada is that while my hometown is a world capital city, it is like an urban bullet hole in an othe...

Downtown Rain

This shot was taken from the front seat of my parked car on Nepean Street in downtown Ottawa. I had just finished up with a dentist appointment, and was just ab...

Ashton Village: Past and Present, Here and Now

This picture does as good a job as any at encapsulating what you'll find in the "downtown core" of Ashton, Ontario, a tiny village tucked away in a quiet southw...

Burritts Rapids: A Pictorial Travelogue

When travelling to historic Burritts Rapids, Ontario from Ottawa (via Donnelly Drive or Dwyer Hill Road), one of the first landmarks you'll see is Christ Church...

Abandonned Backroads of West Carleton (Monomad entry)

This morning I took a drive through a particular rural extremity of Ottawa formerly known as West Carleton Township, and took pictures of a few things that caug...

Depp v. Heard, and the anti-woman unhumanity of “#BelieveAllWomen”

Modified from an uncredited image on marca.com. I’m not the first to say it, but the unfolding Depp v. Heard defamation trial is serving to further expose the i...

maternity ward

tiny eyes peering out from within placental dreams, remembering life before the dry land of birth. our gazes lock as we study each other in nascent pools of pre...

The Art of Falling Down and Getting Back Up

The author with his mother, circa 1973. Deagle family photo (detail). By early September 2021, I had been feeling like William the Conqueror. I was months into ...

"The United States of America v. Aaron Swartz" | by @jamesdeagle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-kGQyNPC5s&list=OLAK5uykhFZEvj0WkYIf9NTBCgwoJ3bgZcoWd1lk This piece originated as an exercise in scoring the opening of a movie...

Collage: "Seasonal Affective Daydream"

Seasonal Affective Daydream Collage on paper, with blue Sharpie®...

Bulk file transfers made easy with SSHFS on Ubuntu and OpenBSD

The SSHFS man page on Ubuntu. A few days ago, I decided that I would like to transfer a large archive of files from one computer (running OpenBSD 7.0) to anothe...

The presumption of innocence applies to everyone, even Donald Trump

A recent article in Business Insider does much to betray the moral panic that has characterized media coverage of Donald Trump since that fateful day in 2015 wh...

New Adventures in illumos: (Just Like) Starting Over

The OpenIndiana Hipster desktop, circa November 2021. It feels like an eternity since I last ran illumos on bare metal. One way or another, my previous two lapt...

Sunday Afternoon in Almonte, Ontario

This is my entry for the monomad challenge, a series of digital black and white photos taken while exploring historic Mill Street in Almonte, Ontario on October...

Taughannock Falls, Ithaca

Shot on black and white medium format film (60mm) with a vintage Yashica 635 Twin Lens Reflex camera....

"Hypnopompia": My first NFT

My experience thus far with learning about blockchain has shown me that nothing beats mucking around and getting your hands dirty. (In September 1991 I had hear...