After my Celtic Colours 2005 trip to Cape Breton, I received requests to share some of the photographs I took then and during my previous trips to Cape Breton. Since, at the time, I had no mechanism for posting them on-line with which I felt comfortable, Mike Little offered to host them on his Cape Breton Choices web site (click the “Photos” button underneath the banner at the top of that site’s home page). At that time, we agreed that I would supply a set of pictures on a more-or-less monthly basis presenting an aspect of Cape Breton’s scenery along with some descriptive commentary. The table below lists the essays in the order in which they have actually been published, which has turned out to be considerably less frequently than originally agreed, though with many more photos than initially conceived.
At the beginning, these essays were written for Mike’s web site, not this one, and therefore had to function in that environment. Consequently, the pages in the essays before the 18th lack the organizational layout found elsewhere on my site and use HTML 4.01 Transitional without CSS. Over the years, they have migrated to my web site, where the images and most of the pages now reside; this allows me to revise all of the essays and update them to conform the organizational layout found on the rest of this site; the most recent essays already do.
The current essay is always posted on Mike’s web site, not here (though the links on this page do work—they take you to Mike’s web site). The previous essays are archived here; they are the same as the versions that appeared originally on Mike’s site, except that I have made occasional minor revisions to the text to correct typos, infelicities of wording, and errors as well as to incorporate feedback I have received. This situation will also change as they are converted to HTML5, when I plan on updating each essay’s content as necessary, looking for broken links and fixing any found, and incorporating knowledge I have acquired since the page was originally written.
For information about the photos in these essays, including the cameras used, JPEG compression, copyright, and availability, see this discussion on my home page.
To access one of the photo essays, either click on its title either in the bottom third of the navigation bar or in the table below.
I am delighted to be able to give something back to Cape Breton Island for all the incredible hospitality its people have shown me over the years. Please direct any feedback on these essays to me using the link in the footer below.