Your Christmas Cards Are Ready!
Already? It seems early but I know some of you like to get these things out of the way before the big rush. So check out my Christmas card collection here. Here are a couple of my favourites: If you happen to live in British Columbia you might want to share the province’s capital city, [...]
Coffee Coloured Sunset
This is my final image from Rebecca Spit on Quadra Island, BC. Really. Well … for this year’s trip anyway. Please click the image to view a larger version. This is a high dynamic range image made by combining 3 exposures in Photomatix. Then I brought the resulting HDR image into Nik Silver Efex Pro [...]
Driftwood Art
The massive accumulation of driftwood at Rebecca Spit on Quadra Island, BC, is fascinating. But even better is all the driftwood art made by campers at the nearby campground. The beachfront campsites all have their own unique art. In one campsite a long time seasonal resident made this gorgeous carving. Please click the images to [...]
Rebecca Spit Driftwood
Rebecca Spit has to be one of the most interesting beaches I have been to and its right here in my backyard! Well … almost my backyard. It’s about a 2 hour drive and a short ferry trip from my backyard which may be why I’ve only been here once before in my life. In [...]
More from Rebecca Spit
Today’s image is from the same location as my earlier posts this week: Rebecca Spit on Quadra Island, British Columbia. Please click the image to view a larger version. The colours were wild for this sunrise. I actually desaturated the colours in this image a bit. In post processing I softened the sky and brought [...]
Using A Reverse Graduated ND Filter
I am finally starting to get the hang of my 2 stop reverse graduated neutral density filter which I have rarely taken out of the bag. Usually when the sky is brighter than the foreground I use my 2 or 3 stop graduated ND. The difference between them is that the regular grad ND is [...]
Get on your knees! Or … not.
How much time do you spend on your knees? For me the answer is none! I get sharp stabbing pains when I kneel and 20 years ago I swore I would never kneel again. (I think there was some other swearing at the time as well.) But that’s no excuse. As a photographer, we all [...]
Ancient Tree Roots
It can be difficult to make a great image in a forest unless you can find a pattern in the trees or a stand of trees without much undergrowth. At Cathedral Grove on Vancouver Island, where I made the abstract image in yesterday’s post, I tried a different tactic. I made this image of just [...]
Cathedral Grove Abstract
I have something a little different for you today! I made this image at Cathedral Grove, a protected stand of giant douglas fir trees, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Please click the image to view a larger version. The grove is not quite as spectacular as I remember it being as a kid because there [...]
Another Peaceful Morning
It was one of those mornings that was made for the early fisherman. The lake was flat calm, the sun about to rise already turning the skies pink, the boat is ready to go. Where are you fisherman? Please click the image to view a larger version. I made this image before sunrise at Buttle [...]
This Is A Grouse Not An Elk
One of the short hikes we went on in Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, didn’t land me any landscape images. I really wasn’t expecting any wildlife images either given the name of the trail, “Elk River View Trail” where there is a viewing platform to watch the Roosevelt Elk. Yeah, right!! Sure, there’s [...]
One Scene, Two Techniques
At Buttle Lake in Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, I used two photography techniques to make two very different images from the same scene. The first image was made before sunrise when it was still fairly dark and there was not much colour in the sky. The stump is the main subject but [...]
Lower Myra Falls (Part 2)
Usually when I find a great scene like the one at Lower Myra Falls in Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, I start off wide and photograph the entire scene. I loved how the waterfall was not just one big fall but multiple falls leading to the emerald pool. Please click the images to [...]
Lower Myra Falls (Part 1)
One of my favourite places in Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, was Lower Myra Falls. The hike is about 1 kilometer from the parking area and it leads to a stunning group of cascades deep within the forest above Buttle Lake. I could spend all day photographing falls like these that have such [...]
Lupin Falls, Strathcona Park, BC
While visiting Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island, Ray and I quickly got back into our old routine. We got up at 5am for the sunrise photo shoot at Buttle Lake then went back to the campsite for breakfast, coffee and showers before heading out on the second photo shoot of the day. Our next stop [...]
Strathcona Sunrise and Being Happy Again
I got stuck in sad. After Oscar died I went through all the normal stages of the grieving process until I got to the sad stage and that’s where I got stuck. I didn’t pick up my camera for 6 weeks and that’s a long time for a photographer to not photography anything. My camera [...]
Now What? Our Plans For The Future
Now that we are home from our year-long adventure everyone is asking “what do you plan on doing now?” “How will you adjust to “reality?” Easy. We wont. Not really. We just changed our reality to be what we want it to be. The summer will be a bit different from the past year because [...]
spOIL
Human Error. It is impossible to prevent. It always happens — eventually. It is only a matter of time. The only thing we can do is NOT do things so incredibly stupid as to spOIL everything when human error inevitably happens. Have you ever wondered how much our lives depend on the ocean? Please watch [...]
Goodbye Victoria
It wasn’t as hard to leave as I thought it would be. The place I have lived for 27 years, where I went to university and owned my first home. Victoria, BC, is a great place to live. What it lacks in lakes it makes up for in ocean, surrounded on 3 sides – a [...]
