Newsletter #218: October, 2025
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Welcome everyone!
Celebrating 20 years of sharing photographs and stories of the Cariboo Chilcotin region in south-central British Columbia.
Contents:
- Flavours of Autumn in the Cariboo.
- Two new Photographic Exhibitions
Flavours of Autumn in the Cariboo
During September and the first week in October, I set off to casually capture the flavour of my home region in autumn. I travelled north and south along Highway 97 between Ashcroft and Williams Lake, and westward on country roads to the grassland areas of Churn Creek and Farwell Canyon. I also include a few images from within our home and along Back Valley Road where I take my morning walks.
Autumn is a period of change when life takes on new meaning; temperatures drop, colours change, and the horizontal angles of sunlight transform the landscape.
With everchanging atmospheric conditions, the beauty of landscape is fleeting. I wish I could have walked the entire route that I drove, for I know there is always more when I slow down.
The following images were captured using various photographic styles. This is the way I photograph these days; the way I see the world. Surely, art is more than the replication of appearances; it also includes imagination, where expression has more to do with feelings. Enjoy.
The last cut before winter.
Colour and texture
Local food markets, farm gate producers, and wineries all drew me in off the highway to experience the gifts of autumn.
Textured colour; a feast.
Nutritional blessings; a time to give thanks.
In Rita’s kitchen, preparations for winter were on display as exhibits of fine art.
Spring and summer each have their beauty, but the muted colours of autumn is my favourite season of all.
What was a gift of food, is now the gift of compost.
On my morning walks, I pass both the above driveways.
When I noticed the tonal and colour contrast, I pulled off the highway and made this image.
Fence line.
To emphasize my response to the waves of textured colour, I chose softness rather than detail to render the different grasses.
Once again, I chose subtleness to emphasize texture, colour, and form.
The Marble Mountains is the backdrop for this ranch land pictorial.
Rectangular shapes of vegetational diversity.
An all-powerful rock wall protects the bullrushes in a quiet beaver pond.
The beaver pond.
The red vegetation on the shoreline of a roadside alkali lake provided the key colour element for the following two abstracts
Beyond the edge of realism
Beyond the edge of realism II.
Where Meadow Lake Road winds through an ancient grassland, a chapter of the Douglas Fir tree story remains.
Hidden between these dramatic horizontal and vertical shapes, the Fraser River carves its canyon deeper and deeper.
Burnt sage. A cemetery after the fire
The colour of the Chilcotin River reveals calendar seasons. In spring, this river is a deep brown; filled with the silt from melting glaciers of the Coast Mountains. In autumn, the glaciers have frozen, and the silt has dissipated.
The true spirit of the grasslands is felt by those who walk there.
The quietness of evening light.
Shadow and light generate form, and thus, a sense of depth. The solitary tree provides scale.
The last minute of autumn light.
The Curation of two new Photographic Exhibitions
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British Columbia’s Coast Mountain Foothills
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British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau
During the past 35 years I have had the good fortune of exploring, photographing, and published 13 books on the Cariboo Chilcotin region of central British Columbia. As I continue to curate my entire image bank, I post Photographic Exhibitions to my website. They are a sharing of imagery, stories, and beauty; the intention of which is always to deepen our awareness to a land that has been gifted to us and that we should hold on to as sacred.
Exhibitions are like art gallery exhibits which provide viewers with a sense and spirit of a special place within the Canadian landscape. They are also designed to preserve a moment in time; a historical and educational resource designed to generate a visual identity along with a sense of understanding, appreciation, and value for local residents, fellow Canadians, and global visitors.
A new exhibition has just been published; British Columbia’s Coast Mountain Foothills.
Reflection Lake
Another new exhibition has just been published; British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau.
Niut Tarn
Viewers are invited to join the adventure of seeing my world as a sacred landscape; as an emotional response; as an artistic philosophy; or as a creative expression.
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