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Behind the Scenes

Unhappy Hipsters

I love see­ing homes that are thought­fully designed, even ones that aren’t to my per­sonal tastes. But some­times I look at the sub­jects of mag­a­zine design sto­ries per­fectly posed in their beau­ti­fully arranged homes and I think Who ARE these peo­ple??!? Their homes look so sorted and pris­tine. Where are the scream­ing kids? The end­less scraps of […]

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& Haliburton">Scouting in Muskoka & Haliburton

Well, I’m back in the office after a two-​​​​day scout­ing trip to the Huntsville and Dorset areas to check out a few cot­tages for poten­tial sto­ries. After look­ing at two places on Lake Ver­non, I dropped in at the cot­tage my fam­ily used to rent dur­ing my pre­teen and teen years to say hi to old friends.
A few […]

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Weather Update

The weather didn’t exactly co-​​​​operate, but our shoot on Stony Lake went on as planned last week. It rained for a day and a half of our two-​​​​day shoot, but we got some great shots. Watch for the story in our Octo­ber issue this year.

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Weather Watch

Well, I’ve been anx­iously check­ing the weather reports for the Stony Lake area. Art direc­tor Kim Zagar and I are sup­posed to head up there for a photo shoot next week, but every­thing depends on whether the weather co-​​​​operates. To bring you all those beau­ti­ful pho­tos of cot­tage coun­try every issue, we need sun to get the […]

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