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 […]
Chilcotin Ark
The Story Behind the Image
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 […]
The Story Behind the Image
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 […]
The Story Behind the Image
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 […]
The Story Behind the Image
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 […]
The Story Behind the Image
Volcanoes that feed the whales: Chilcotin Ark When I hiked through the Ilgatchuz volcano in the west Chilcotin, I always carried my camera gear. Photography is the art form and the medium through which I try to express the feelings I am experiencing on the land I am travelling on. Look at this mountain of […]
There is always magic at Farwell Canyon
Every time I visit Farwell Canyon, there is magic in the landscape due to the always changing light. Landscapes are never static, they are dynamic, and that is why I never get ‘bored’ by visiting the same place many many times. In fact, the more times I visit, the more I see in the details, […]
Just like old friends – the Vesper Sparrow
I just returned from Farwell Canyon where I shared the beauty of the grasslands with a friend. The morning air waves were filled with bird song, especially the beautiful sound of the Vesper Sparrow. It consists of two to four long clear notes followed by musical trills. Vesper sparrows are a quintessential bird of the […]
Most spectacular lava columns in the Cariboo Chilcotin
Some recent book research brought me to this image which displays some of the most stunning basalt columns I have ever set eyes on. Basalt lava cools in columns at right angles to its cooling face. These particular columns were created 5-6 million years ago in what is today Ilgatchuz Provincial Park. They form part […]
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