Photographing the Canadian Prairie: You don’t need exotic travel locations for good photography!

Living on the Canadian Prairies, at times can seem like a disadvantage for the travel or landscape photographer.  But it really isn’t, there is a huge diversity of things to photograph.  And I’m not only referring to fields of Canola, or Wheat.  Sure there aren’t majestic mountains, many waterfalls etc.  But if you search for [...]

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Landscape Photographer does a candy shop: Expanding your photography with the real eye candy

So you’ve traveled hours to get to your destination, with the intention of shooting some great landscapes.  But the weather man has let you down.  Constant rain, overcast, generally dreary conditions.  Sometimes this type of weather can be the most interesting conditions to photograph in.  But sometimes you might just not be up to the [...]

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Banff National Park, from fall, winter, summer in 2 days

Fall colors, Vermillion Lakes We all know weather in the Canadian Rockies can change at the drop of a hat.  On a very recent trip over a two day period, we arrived to rainy, foggy and overcast skies.  The following day we had a large dumping of very wet snow, temperatures well below freezing, this [...]

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Photography, behind the scenes, in memory of my dog ‘Wallace’

So much of what makes photography fascinating and so popular to the masses is the capability of freezing moments in time.  Those fleeting brief slices of your life that you may never experience again.  What struck me recently was that there is so much more to creating an image then just the final outcome viewed [...]

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Summer holidays at the cottage, Lake Winnipeg, Gimli, Manitoba

Gimli Beach on Lake Winnipeg, an hour’s drive north of Winnipeg. With my wife’s nephew in for a visit from Thunder Bay, Ontario, and him suffering from extreme boredom of hanging out with a couple 40 somethings, we decided to venture out to a friend’s cottage in Gimli.  More specifically Loni Beach, just north of [...]

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Food and drink photography and a fresh new cooking blog

A new foray into food and drink photography, thanks to my wife and her wonderful new cooking blog.  I’ve only dabbled in this form of photography from time to time, usually on long dark winter days.  But with a little coaxing I’m now a part time food photographer and contributor to her food blog.  It’s [...]

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Man’s best friend, The Forks, Winnipeg

Two best friends sharing a park bench at The Forks in downtown Winnipeg.  I really like this image, not only because of this wonderful dog, but the fact he and his owner are glancing at each other as they watch passers-by.  Photography is much about timing and this is a prime example of that fleeting [...]

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Cracked clay of the Red River Valley, Winnipeg, Canada.

When the spring flood waters of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers recede, Winnipeg riverbanks leave behind the clay that the Red River Valley is well known for.  Locals know all to well how fun it can be to dig a hole in this stuff.  With little rain recently it takes on it’s drought like appearance.  [...]

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Alberta Landscape in Black and white

Rolling Prairie meets mountains, near Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Fog shrouded mountains, Banff National Park, Alberta A couple of my favorite landscapes images from the past year in black and white.   These were originally in color, but I much prefer the quad toned black and white conversions.  The multi-layered tones in these images suit [...]

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Prairie Landscapes when the snow is dirty.

Storage silos on the Manitoba Prairie. In my neck of the woods, once the winter snow recedes I often slowdown my shooting.  Garbage and brown messy snow rears it’s ugly head and landscape images in particular don’t do much for me.  But that doesn’t mean there is nothing to photograph.  The rebirth of the Spring [...]

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