Artistic Photography Rainforest – a documentary view Whenever I go for a walk, as I did in the above rainforest, I see the world around me as it is. The world as it is, however, is not necessarily based on realism, it is also based on imagination. That’s the reason for enjoying the arts and […]
Central Coast
Why Take a Workshop?
Why Take a Photographic Workshop? Teaching a photographic workshop is a privilege, not because of f-stops, shutter speeds, and secret techniques to produce ‘wow’ images, but because we discuss photography as art. In our workshops the emphasis is on art, and creativity, because this is what provides us with a meaningful and rewarding life. […]
The Story Behind the Image
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 […]
Performing a ‘pas-de-deux’ in the grasslands
“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation”. – Henri Cartier-Bresson (photographer) This was definitely an ‘immediate reaction’, not a meditation! Here we see a pair of woodnymph butterflies perform a pas-de-deux around a wavy-leaved thistle in the grasslands near Churn Creek. I will be away tomorrow. Have a great weekend. woodnymph butterflies
Making it Art
“Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.” — Richard Avedon (photographer) I was walking through a ship yard filled with old boats of different sizes and different states of disrepair. Many were beyond repair. In many ways it was a marine junk yard. When I photograph, I eliminate […]
Stop a Moment and Hold it Forever
Q. What’s the best thing about photography? A. “You can stop a moment of time and hold it forever” – Vincent Versace I was sitting on a rock in a stream hoping to photograph a bear, when all of a sudden it happened! A Spirit Bear came out of the woods, came to the stream, […]
Beauty in the Mysterious
“The Most Beautiful Thing we can Experience is the Mysterious; it is the Source of all true Art and Science”. Albert Einstein With First Peoples art in mind, I made this image along the BC central Coast, not far from Bella Coola. My Final Major Book! In celebration of the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast region of […]
Images & Poetry…
” When people look at my photographs, I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice ” – Robert Frank, photographer An abstraction from a rotting ship’s hull on the central BC coast. My Final Major Book! In celebration of the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast […]
Great to be back on LAND…in the Cariboo!!
It’s been an amazing summer, filled with photographic adventures of every description. I’ve hiked amidst tarns and alpine flowers in the mountains, cruised up rivers within the rainforest, traveled by horse through ancient volcanoes, powered by boat on some of BC’s largest mountain lakes, and most recently, sailed down the central coast in gale force […]
My June, 2014 Newsletter #107 has just been posted!
All aboard for the Great Bear Rainforest! I have just posted my latest monthly Newsletter. I can’t believe it’s #107; that’s over 8 years without missing a month. In this Newsletter I share adventures from the Cariboo Mountains in the east to the Great Bear Rainforest on the west coast. Have a look…better still, subscribe! […]