I just posted my October Newsletter which contains some stories from this summers wildfires. To see the remains of Lee’s Corner was a shocker. When I reached Hanceville that day, I bore witness to the remains of a Chilcotin landmark. This historic café dated back to the gold rush and early ranching days in the Chilcotin. […]
Year: 2017
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I have just returned from Silvertip Lodge which is beautifully situated in the Cariboo Mountains at the far eastern end of Quesnel Lake. Surrounded by the world’s only inland temperate rainforest, it is as they claim, “a luxury home in the wilderness”. I was there this past week with a small group of fishers, and writers, […]
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I have just returned from teaching a 7-day photo workshop with partner Dennis Ducklow titled “Develop your Creative Vision”. It was held at the Tallheo Cannery near Bella Coola on the BC central coast. It was another fabulous group of photographers who gathered from across Canada to share in the creative process. On the last […]
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I just published my May photographic Newsletter which talked about the ‘Gift of Light’. When looking through my imagery, I came across this image which spoke so explicitly about the Gift of Light that I wanted to share it’s story with you. Rita, along with friend Mike Duffy and I, were camping on Shack Lake, […]
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One day while exploring the Chilcotin grasslands, I came across this lone cabin set amidst the most incredible scent of wild sagebrush. At first I thought it must have been a cowboy’s trail cabin, but no, it was a shepherds cabin. This shepherd travelled dozens of miles up and down the Fraser River canyon lands, […]
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Flickers arrived on our property last week and the sounds of them pecking trees, telephone poles and roof tops, made me thing of the time I captured this image along the shores of the Fraser River. I watched this flicker come and go from her nest and I remember marveling at how perfectly sized the […]
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I just love living on BC’s central plateau at this time of the year when different birds arrive weekly, filling the skies with song. When I hear the first blackbird, Canada goose, meadowlark, loon, and sandhill crane; I know that life is good. I am still alive, and the planet is still spinning. All else becomes […]
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When I was photographing for my book Spirit in the Grass, my biggest challenge was to capture book quality bird images. The grasslands are vast. I remember hiking for miles and hardly being able to see a big horn sheep! They looked so small. Seeing and then getting close enough to photograph tiny birds was […]
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High above the mid-Fraser River Canyon between Clinton and Williams Lake to the north, there is a spectacular back-country road which winds it way, often precariously, through the Cariboo Chilcotin grassland canyonlands. I have traveled this road often over the years while searching for beautiful grassland compositions. One of the sights I often see are the dead vehicles […]
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Nuk Tessli, situated in the eastern foothills of the Coast Mountains, is a place of many moods: bright sun, pending storms, starlit nights, and exuberant winds. Here on the shores of Moonlight Lake, we could sense a storm brewing but we had no idea what nature had in store for us that night. We just […]
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How Ancient is this Piece of Wood? I was exploring a new Canadian landscape at the foothills of the Coast Mountains; one which was being revealed for the very first time by the retreating Fyles Glacier. As I roamed with my camera, marveling at new soils and first generation vegetation, I came across this small […]
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The Challenge of Photographing Pack Horses On every pack horse trip I have made in the past 25 years, I have tried to make a successful photograph that shows pack horses happily grazing in their mountain environment. Some of the challenges include the juxtaposition of different coloured horses, horses that are in front of one another causing them […]