Robin Rowland's blog on visual journalism, writing and life in general. I write in a renovated garret in my house in a part of Toronto, Canada, called "The Pocket." As a visual journalist, most of the work I do is either photojournalism or photography of rugged natural landscapes in Canada and around the world. 
With the unfortunate death of the old "garret tree," killed by a fierce late summer Ontario thunderstorm, at the same time that I was redesigning my website, I decided the time had come to launch a new blog. So I shut down The Garret Tree.So now Robin's Weir will be my blog on photography, writing and life in general. Another blog I hope to launch in the near future, The Tao of News, will be concerned about the current crisis in journalism, but will take a long term view of the craft and the profession.
The name of this blog comes from my original late 1990s "blog" in the pre-blog era, now long gone, called "Elphin's Weir." In Welsh mythology, a prince named Elphin, fishing at his salmon weir, found the baby who would become the bard Taliesin . Elphin's Weir had hints for web searching in the pre-Google era, compiled as I was writing The Creative Guide to Research.
Robin's Weir will have a much wide scope. Like the salmon, a Celtic symbol of wisdom, and the weir which brought the young bard to the world, I hope to bring you the reader, some enlightnment and some fun.
