Newsletter #204: May, 2023
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We’ve Got News!
It’s Your Last Chance!
Hello Friends,
We’ve made a big decision. 2023 is the final year of workshops for ‘Develop Your Creative Vision’.
We’re so thankful for the 7 years we’ve had together, and for our experiences with each of our photographer friends. It’s been enriching, unforgettable, and transformative.
However, we have much more to do, so we are clearing our calendars for 2024 to follow individual pursuits.
So, if you thinking of a workshop, we have only a few spaces available. We also encourage you to join our workshop waitlists. Several people have joined our workshops already this year from waitlists; people’s plans change.
With sincere appreciation,
Chris and Dennis
Complete details are at www.developyourcreativevision.ca
Join us on Gabriola Island, British Columbia
June 26-July 2, or August 30-September 5, 2023
Dive into the beauty of BC’s Gulf Islands with ocean shores, forests and everything in between. Explore the amazing sandstone formations, intertidal diversity, and unique Gulf Island ecology. Use your camera to express beauty in new ways.
Join us in Vieux Montréal, Quebec
September 29 – October 5, 2023
Centuries-old stone and brick buildings in Vieux Montréal provide a stage to photograph like no other city in North America. We’ll be there to take in the colours of Autumn along with the textures of this historic centre. We will emphasize techniques and style to best capture this unique ‘sense of place’ and cultural diversity.
Complete details are at www.developyourcreativevision.ca
I Have More News!
Visual Narratives
Starting with this Newsletter, I am starting a new way of sharing my photography and visual explorations.
With visual narratives, viewers are invited to come along for the adventure of seeing the world as a sacred landscape, as an emotional response, as an artistic philosophy, or as a creative expression.
I have been blessed with the privilege of photographing some of Canada’s most pristine and diverse wilderness complexes. Doing this work has been an unfolding lifetime of adventure, exploration, and story-telling.
Within the format I am about to share, these narratives are told through short image sequences of up to six images along with accompanying text. The story may be an outdoor adventure; a personal challenge or assignment; an exploration of a new expressive technique; or, an in-depth study of an imaginary world.
You are invited to participate, and above all, to find joy and pleasure in doing so.
Visual Narratives are found on my website. Please subscribe here to receive Visual Narratives in your inbox.
To start, I have posted three visual narratives on my website, and include one here in this Newsletter as a sample.
Visual Narrative # 001
Meaning of Place
Only when I have experienced a place, spiritually and physically, can I give it meaning.
With anticipation, I approached Red Rock Pass, and when I reached it, I crumbled, and then wept with joy. Never before or since have I felt a surge of planetary energy as powerful as I did there in the heart of the Itcha Volcano on July 10, 2009.
For several days, my wife Rita, and friend Mike, and I, hiked amidst these 5-million-year-old flows of coloured lava; each an eruption separated by tens of thousands of years. Today, as they blend together and move slowly downward toward the sea, they generate soil for the vegetation climbing from the valley floor.
Photographing within this volcanic core was a transformational experience. By revisiting my images, I feel rejuvenated and uplifted.
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A Days Adventure with Belgian Visitors
For many years we have regularly hosted young folks who are travelling the world, earning their keep by working in exchange for accommodation. For Rita and I, it’s a reminder of when we each travelled the world in our 20’s and how enriching it was to be invited into the homes of local residents. Today, whenever the opportunity arises, we love to reciprocate by welcoming these young travellers to our home, and sharing a little of our Cariboo culture.
To end the week, we took them out for a picnic at Farwell Canyon to explore a landscape few British Columbians get to experience; the BC grasslands. Here are a few images depicting the landscape they were thrilled to experience.
The road through Farwell Canyon
Single tree and rabbit-brush amidst canyon hoodoos
Our Belgian friends, Evi and Kaj, exploring high above the Chilcotin River
©Kaj Sennelov. Kaj captured this rare perspective above Farwell Canyon with his drone
Then, we outfitted Evi and Kaj for a 6-day canoe adventure in Bowron Lake Park; an area they had never heard of before. We can’t wait to hear their stories!
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