About
On This Page: About us | Our cameras | If you want to use our photos | Contact us Whether you’re a homesick Nova Scotian, a once or future visitor to our sweet province, or a current resident, we hope you enjoy our collection of Nova Scotia photos. It started life as a wedding present on a floppy disk in 2000, and look at it now, with its own domain, a growing collection of photos of NS, a regularly updated blog about living in Nova Scotia, a shop for Nova Scotia Books, its own Nova Scotia Gift Shop with Nova Scotia t-shirts and gifts, and photos on Google Earth. Please feel free to link to us or share this site with others.
We didn’t design the Nova Scotia Photo Album to promote tourism, but we hope it will encourage you to visit the province and experience its hospitality first hand. If you’re from Nova Scotia and live elsewhere, or if you have visited, you will appreciate our year-round point of view.
Heather Holm
About Us
I’m Heather Holm. I was born and raised in Nova Scotia. After high school I lived and travelled in New Brunswick, West Africa, Montreal, Europe, Mexico and Central America before returning to Nova Scotia in 1989. You can guess that I think it’s a great place to live! I know the province well, having lived in several of its regions and travelled to most others for business, performing or vacations, and by car, bike, canoe and sail. I have been running my own web design business, HolmPage Productions since way back in the 20th century. My husband, Etienne (Steve) Sepulchre, who takes some of the photos, was raised in Africa and Belgium and lived in Thunder Bay and the Ottawa/Hull area before moving to Nova Scotia. He has a professional blog on legal and regulatory issues at RegulatoryAid.ca, a French blog on sailing at VoilePourTous.com as well as an English blog on Civil Aviation, CivAv.com. Together we have lived in Blomidon and Kentville, and now live near Mahone Bay. We have one child – who is also a contributor to the Nova Scotia Photo Album now – and a sailboat. Some of our photos were taken by our friend Dennis Robinson, my mother June Maginley, and by Heike Ortscheid, a German friend who loves to visit Nova Scotia. [top]
About our Cameras
Nothing fancy. Some of the earlier photos were taken with a 1-megapixel Agfa digital camera. You may be able to spot some of those, but others might surprise you. Other photos were taken with my dear old Minolta SLR which has bit the dust. Most of the rest are from a 2-megapixel, 3x optical zoom Kodak Easyshare CX6230 or a Kodak Z730 with 5MP and 4x optical zoom. Dennis now is showing off with his Nikon D-80. I think that the most important part of a camera is the lens, and lens quality and price are not necessarily related. We like Kodak lenses. The other part of taking a picture is the human eye, and there’s no price tag on that. It does help, however, to be able to correct and enhance photos digitally. [top]
If You Want to Use Our Photos of Nova Scotia
Non-commercial use
Any of the photos on the “Nova Scotia Photo Album” web site may be used on non-commercial web sites with acknowledgment and a link back to the homepage of this web site on the same page that the photo appears. The link can be as simple as “H. Holm photo, Nova Scotia Photo Album” with a hyperlink to http://www.NovaScotiaPhotoAlbum.com. The link must be visible and legible to the naked eye.
Commercial use
Photos may be used on commercial web sites for illustrative purposes with the same provisions as for non-commercial use above. However, they may not be sold or transformed into an item to be sold without a contract with HolmPage Productions. Note that the photos on the site are low-resolution images and would not be suitable for any purpose other than internet use. If not otherwise indicated, photos were taken by and are Copyright © H. Holm. [top]
Contact Us
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Reader Comments
I would love to add your website to mine uner all things wonderful about Nova Scotia. Actually, I added the URL this morning and then thought I better make sure this is O.K.! I am a REALTOR in HRM – specialize mostly in Dartmouth and the Eastern Shore. I work with a lot of people from away who are relocating to NS and I like to have info about the whole province on my site. Kind regards, Cheryl Lynn, 902-223-1399
Thanks, Cheryl Lynn, of course it’s OK! And I hope to take more photos of the wonderful Eastern Shore soon. Best wishes.
Hi Heather, I’m a from your kitchen window bird watcher, although I do get very involved with my birds. I found the little ones came early this year and I’m always so excited when they do. I especially love to see the cardinals. We live on the coast in Yarmouth and yesterday my husband (he’s my backup!) and I were watching out the window when I saw a bird that I had never seen before. I thought for a minute that I was seeing the light shine in a different way, but I wasn’t and it was blue. It was alone, but fed with the other small birds. We watched till we could see no more and it hasn’t been back today. From what I can detect it was an indigo bunting. It was blue with the brown markings on the wings. It seems that this would be a female. It was about the size of a chickadee. As I looked on some of the sites, it appears that this bird is not often sited in Nova Scotia. I know the book that we were identifing it with had it’s habitat going as far as Maine. Have you ever seen one in your area? Thanks for taking the time….Lois
Lois – yes: a male has been spotted in two locations in the Blomidon area. Did you see this post and photos: http://www.novascotiaphotoalbum.com/blog/2009/04/indigo-bunting/ (note the comments as well)?
Stunning bird.
Some Gorgeous shots you have there! I am from Scotland and my Fiance is from Nova Scotia and we both live in NZ.
We plan to move to Nova Scotia in a few years time and seeing these photos want me to move even quicker!
I have a few decent shots of Nova Scotia myself and my missus wrote hilarious article about Nova Scotia in Winter…. check it out
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Nova Scotia Wallpapers
Hi Heather,
I was just looking at your photo’s and you have some great ones! You have one of Blomidon that I especially like and I’m wondering if I might be able to use it as a background for bicycle hang tags in my store in Wolfville? I plan to have information on these tags about each bike that we have on the floor for sale. I was thinking it would be great if I could have a local landmark on the tags rather than just having plain old black and white ones?
I look forward to your reply.
Cheers,
Bill Harvie
Valley Stove & Cycle Ltd.
Hi Heather,
I love your photography. I’m just back from a trip to Nova Scotia and I’m missing it already. I would like to use one of your photos (one of the winter roads in “Photos of Cape Blomidon’s moods”) as a jumping off point for a painting (my style veers a bit towards abstraction). While I don’t sell my paintings yet, I may do so in future. How do you feel about visual artists using your work in this way?
Lise in Toronto
I’d love it! Consider sending me a photo when it’s done, and I’ll add it to the blog, with contact information.
Hi Heather,
I have a blog called “Travel to Nova Scotia.” It is a hobby blog and I would like to feature some of your great photos. I have already linked back to you.
Thanks,
Kim Kinrade
I’m from Nova Scotia and had no idea that this blog was here. You’ve done an excellent job with it and many of your photos are completely stunning. I created an article listing good resorts in Nova Scotia for tourists. In case any of your readers are interested, click hereto read it
Thanks for creating such an amazing resource!
Hi Heather,
I’m a misplaced Nova Scotian now living in Montreal and desperate to come home. I so enjoyed your website and the gorgeous photos of home. My sister lives in the Annapolis valley near Blomidon and my folks are on the south shore (Cape Island). I go home every chance I get and will be sure to let everyone I know that they absolutely have to check out your site – great job! Keep up the awesome work. Be back from time to time whenever I get homesick – which is often.
Glad you found the site! You’re just the kind of person I often imagine when I’m working on it – the homesick Nova Scotian – and there are a lot of them out there. Hope you get to move back soon!