A Sailors Friend
Ah, the smell of the ocean breezes, the sounds of lapping waves against the shores as gulls cry in the distance… sights and sounds that bring an instant sense of tranquility and peace to all. It’s...
View ArticleRevisiting Kinsol Trestle
It has been five years since last we featured the incredible Kinsol Trestle here at The Hollow, and quite honestly I can’t think why. This massive wood structure forms a very important part of our...
View ArticleJordan River – Forgotten In Time
The hands of time relentlessly tick forward, constantly turning the present into the past and creating history. Sometimes this history is profound, and sometimes it is mundane. Sometimes it lives in...
View ArticleNEW! Topaz Labs Texture Effects 2
It would seem that the good folks over at Topaz Labs never seem to sleep. They are constantly enhancing and updating their current set of tools, and in all cases these advancements produce incredible...
View ArticleContemporary Architecture – Our Hometown Duncan BC
We’d like to introduce you to the newest member of the Toad Hollow Photography team today, “Bruce”. Who’s Bruce, you may very well ask? Bruce is a DJI Phantom 3 Professional drone we recently...
View ArticleHoly Trinity Anglican Church – North Saanich
As we continue our long-running photography project dubbed “The Anglican Church Project” here on Vancouver Island, we find ourselves visiting parishes all over the island and the surrounding Gulf...
View ArticleA Moody Portrait – Fisgard Lighthouse
Fisgard Lighthouse is a special place on the southern end of Vancouver Island, and is a place we like to visit as often as we can during the course of a year. Its personality changes with the seasons...
View ArticleSt. Paul’s Anglican Parish – 150th Anniversary Celebration
As we continue to work on our personal projects here at Toad Hollow, we find that some of these projects leave us with a distinct sense of the profound. This is especially true in regard to our...
View ArticleLaughter In The Wind
We find ourselves in a period of upheaval in terms of the global economy, and with this transition comes change. One of the changes that seems to be so prevalent these days is the many buildings we...
View ArticleAbandoned Jordan River Power Station
As we made our way up the weathered path we heard twigs crack off in the brush, making us both stop dead in our tracks and look at each other silently. With such a warm and dry summer, bears and...
View ArticleMasonic Lodges of Vancouver Island
The history of the Freemasons began on Vancouver Island during the earliest time of colonization on the west coast of Canada. Many of the early members of the organization were integral in...
View ArticleDare To Dream
Sometimes Mrs. Toad and I find ourselves roaming the myriad backroads here on Vancouver Island as you just never know what you’ll find. The island is full of things unusual, many of them whimsical or...
View ArticleSt Anne’s and St Edmund’s Anglican Church
We often hear the expression “if only these walls could talk” when we explore and photograph the myriad heritage buildings that cross our paths here at Toad Hollow. Many times when we visit a place...
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