ABOUT




"One day that’s all we’ll be: A Photo"

Bill Shapiro, Life Magazine


Hello! I'm Patti.

Welcome to my blog!

'Embassy of Ideas'

It's a lot like a buffet;

a bit of this, a bit of that.

Established in 2007.

(Thousands of posts and counting)

It's a place where I invite

others to discover varied editorial subjects.

I needed a place to share things I find interesting.

I hope you enjoy it's randomness!



Patti Friday

Canadian Photographer | Author

Everyday Creative Reporting from the Art Dept. 

inside the International Embassy of Ideas

b. 1959
Made in Canada
(Ottawa, ON)

I am based in Georgian Bay, Ontario. 



Specializing in:

Fine Art Photography & Photobooks

Children's Books



BIO

Patti Friday is a Canadian Photographer and Author who captures the essence of her days with her lens and pen. Her photography embodies a documentary style, presenting cinematic images that showcase her passion for storytelling. Her work focuses on botanical, culinary, everyday items and decorative compositions. Alongside her captivating visuals, she self-publishes photobooks, fiction, poetry and whimsical children's books, showcasing her diverse artistic output and creative spirit.

She currently resides and creates near the blue shores of Georgian Bay, Ontario. (or wherever she might travel in Canada)


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The Pirate Code
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Guiding Quotes:




“Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever.

We have to make room for other people.

It’s a wheel.

You get on, you have to go to the end.

And then somebody has the same opportunity

to go to the end and so on.”

– Vivian Maier, Photographer


“Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.”
― Maira Kalman


 “The only way to assert the right to publish is to publish.” 

- Katharine Graham


The neuroscientist and author
David Eagleman has written
that we all die three deaths:
'The first is when the body ceases to function.
The second is when the body is consigned to the grave.
The third is that moment, sometime in the future,
when your name is spoken for the last time.'

I would say there’s a fourth:
the moment the last remaining picture of you
is seen for the final time.
Photographs not only remind me
of this delicate thing
we run both toward and away from
— time —
but they also hold something else.
The humbling, steadying truth that,

"One day that’s all we’ll be: A Photo"

Bill Shapiro, Life Magazine




I would rather take a photograph than be one. 

Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

- Wendy Cope




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Since 2007
Copyright 2007 - 2025
Patti Friday b.1959 Ottawa, Canada




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