Glenn Hubbers, Costa Rica, Feb 2012
Hi, I’m Glenn. Glenn Hubbers, that is. Thus the hubbers.ca thing.
I’m a professional engineer and corporate hamster by day, music and photography lover by night, living in Ontario, Canada. At the time of this writing I’m 45 years old, happily married and proud father of a very smart young lady studying hard in engineering school.
My blog here at hubbers.ca has been through several lives over the years since I started it in 2005. It’s seen me through two election campaigns (2006 & 2008) as a candidate for the Green Party of Canada, been home to quite a few rants about local, provincial, and national goverment stupidity, and has more recently morphed into a home for my Photo Challenges and Photography hobby. I started the Photo Challenges in 2010 with a small group of family members and friends who became interested in photography at the same time I did.
(You are welcome to join us, if you like! Use the Contact Me link above.)
“OK, so what’s this blog about?”, you ask…
2011 was a tumultuous year for my little blog. It was created originally back in 2005 using Movable Type, then migrated to a self hosted WordPress blog and lived through many, many updates of both the WordPress code and various plug-ins that I’ve used over the years. Compatibility has always been an issue, and it got to the point of being unmanagable. Or at least I was doing a lot more IT than I really wanted to be doing. Added to that is the fact that I wasn’t really blogging very much. Hubbers.ca needed some focus, and a new purpose in life!
All that is why I decided that 2012 will be the year to breathe new life into hubbers.ca. To give it a new purpose, as it were. I decided that this is the year that I will build my website centered around my efforts to explore my right brain.
As I said above, I work as a professional engineer, and the corporate hamster metaphor is an apt one. Thanks to my wonderful singer/songwriter/artist wife (Mollie), however, my worldview has changed somewhat, for the better. It’s now one in which I have a much greater desire to explore artistic outlets, to appreciate the work of others, and to see what I can add to the ether.
A few years back I tried guitar lessons. I’d always wanted to play guitar and wish that I’d kept it up back in highschool. I did far better this time round. I can manage a number of chords and play along in campfire style with others. But time and work pressures sucked my energy level to the point where I was not practising and felt that I was wasting my teachers time and my money. I’ll go back to it someday, when the time is right.
In the meantime, I finally bought a good camera in 2010 and started learning everything I could at a rapid pace. As usual, my understanding of it is well ahead of what I can actually produce, but I think it’s improving. I guess you’ll be the judge of that. Most importantly, I’m trying to move away from the purely technical aspects of photography (which I did first since it comes pretty easily to me) to the artistic.
My biggest inspirations are Trey Ratcliff, David duChemin, and Martin Bailey, among many others.
So I’m going to try this out for a bit, these explorations of my right brain. My blogs posts will focus on the work of others that I find inspiring, my views of the artistic side of life, some of the technical stuff that I’m using for tools, and mostly my efforts to contribute. I’m not sure where this will end up, but the journey is guaranteed to provide me with endless hours of fun!
I’m actually aiming to be able to post a daily photo. But it has to be of a quality level that I’m willing to share with the world, so for a while I think I’ll call it a daily photo and you might see one every few days or so.
I hope it’ll be entertaining and instructive for others as well. I’ll be honoured if you want to tag along and can only promise to try to remain worthy of your time and attention.
- Glenn
