“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon As I hike and explore the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast region of British Columbia, I am always reminded that life is rich, because there are many more questions than there are answers.
Year: 2013
Yoga at Midnight
What a surprise! When I went into a burnt forest in the middle of the night last month, I found myself in the middle of a yoga class. With arms stretching outward toward the mountain tops, and spines curving up toward the stars, it was a sight like I had never experienced. Under the light […]
A Barn Raising Party in the Cariboo!
Last night, the wonderful and remarkable rancher, Ann Armann of Circle H Ranch near 100 Mile House, threw a barn raising party to celebrate the construction of her new barn. When the older one collapsed, it didn’t take Ann and all her many friends very long to build another. So last night was time to […]
Abstracting the Landscape
Hi everyone. I’m back home; back in the Cariboo region of central BC after a wonderful season of photography. I just looked at my previous blog post ( my God, it was August!) and I see where I was doing a reconnaissance trip for my Langley Club Photo Workshop. So, just to continue along that […]
Grassland colours at Farwell Canyon
I visited Farwell Canyon yesterday to lay out a plan for a photography workshop I will teaching this weekend. It was more beautiful than ever! Lakes with algae blooms were spectacular, the grasses had turned to gold, and the Chilcotin River was turquoise, it’s customary August and September colour. I felt like hiking for days, […]
I went to see the cedars in the Ancient Forest, but it was difficult at times.
Two days ago I was walking through a garden of western redcedars in the Ancient Forest. I was surrounded by them, yet at times I could hardly see them for the lush vegetation. The devil’s club that you see in the foreground of this image was a big part of that vegetation. In some rainforest […]
In the Itcha’s we ride into a herd of over 60 caribou.
Ahead of us a large herd of Caribou enjoy prime grasslands It was a beautiful day as we rode toward Ptarmigan Basin in the Itcha Mountains, when suddenly we spotted a heard of over 60 caribou. We stopped, and as we admired them, they started to move toward us. Being the curious animal that they […]
Horses, their shadows, and us as we ride across the Itcha Volcano
Two weeks ago, Rita and I rode across the Itcha Mountains, an old shield volcano created between 80,000 and 3,000,000 years ago. Since that time, three ice ages have scoured away at its very foundations leaving a beautiful volcanic landscape which is ideal for hiking and trail riding. Sometimes I have to jump off my […]
Families of cedars communicating and supporting each other.
Last night I posted an image of two cedars; an elder and a child as I termed them. In response, I heard from Pat Teti who sent me a link to a forestry professor who has studied this very thing. There are families and there are even “mother trees”. Above is a photograph I made […]
An Elder and Child in the Coastal Rainforest
The weather was wet and the light diffuse in the Bella Coola Valley as I walked through a coastal rainforest containing many western red cedars; young and old. Drawn by the comparison of age, I made this image. Then I just stood there and thought about it. The elderly cedar displayed no signs of being […]
This is REAL farming. If you don’t know how it’s done, check this out!
At Horse Lake Community Farm it was time to plant potatoes. As Greg and Jack cruised up alongside the truck, I jumped on board to catch the action. You are about to witness a classic! Next they dumped a box of potatoes into a 1920 International Harvester potato planter. There was a 1912 model nearby […]
Freedom Highway 20 – Where stop lights are BROWN!
There is no highway like Highway 20, also known as the Freedom Highway. What a great name. No need to know where you are going…just head west for a good time. Freedom beyond belief. There are no centre lines and not a single traffic light until you hit Tokyo! Well, actually, there are stop lights, […]