This place I call home!

Friday, May 29, 2015

This topic has me stumped.

You would think as a photographer I would be able to show lovely photographs of my city that surrounds Kempenfelt Bay.

Nope.

Every photo I have has another person (or people in it). So we'll see how I manage with this.

A bit about me: Born in Newmarket Ontario (same hospital as Jim Carrey LOL), raised in Aurora Ontario (think StarsHollow from Gilmore Girls) but moved to Bradford when I was 7.

Bradford at the time was a very small farming town. It's grown since, but here's the town mascot:

Nope. I'm not kidding. When I was in highschool someone added a beer can to Gwilly's hand, and that was the joke for a while..........Yes, very lame.

Moving, on. When I went to college in 1999/2000 I move to Barrie, and have for the most part lived here since. I atteneded Georgian College, and then as luck would have it I got a job there. I ended up falling in love with the city ( duh anything was better than Bradford)

I'm not going to lie. As a person who hates snow and winter Barrie sucks from December to March. But totally rocks in the summer. Always seems like something is happening every weekend in the summer. From the Waterfront festival to Kempenfest. And of course we shut down Dunlop street downtown for Canada Day weekend and it's amazing.

(pics courtesy of Tourism Barrie website)

All in all it's a great small city about 40 min - 1 hour from Toronto which is great. Here are some random photos of my family that I took in the City of Barrie - I'm the worst photographer of scenic stuff so there is none of that. My bad!