New Westminster, B.C, sent summer off with a bang of fireworks on August 27, 2022. Festivities earlier in the day included artisan market vendors and exhibitors. Here are my favourite photos that I shot from my balcony.
The stars lined up for me this summer (2020) as I was able to attend Jess Findlay Photography’s annual Manning Park Wildlife and Mountain Vistas multi-day workshop from July 12th – July 15th. Although photographers from all over the world would typically be welcomed to attend this workshop, given...
One late summer night in August, 2018, I was invited by my friend, Steve Woods, a biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF), to photograph a night of boating on the Ottawa River for a research activity of the local eel population. I accepted the invitation in a heartbeat...
I had visited Sydney when I was with the Canadian Navy back in November 1986 when we joined in to celebrate the Royal Australian Navy’s 75th anniversary. I didn’t have much time ashore so I was happy to visit again, this time on my own, in July 2018, for...
About this time last year in June 2017, I flew down from Ottawa to California to take in Sean Parker’s Joshua Tree Astrophotography Workshop. Silly me, I arrived in Los Angeles and rented a car for the anticipated 2 1/2 hours drive to Joshua Tree National Park but I...
For the last day of my 3 day visit to New York City I ventured out to Dumbo (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), Brooklyn (via York subway station) for some photos of the New York City skyline at the edge of the day. Once you get off the...
Over the August long weekend I was invited out to join a few other photographer friends to take in the 25th year of the Ottawa International Buskerfest. The festival ran over 5 days, with world class performers from all over the world converging downtown Ottawa on Sparks Street. I...
My attending a SPAO (School of Photographic Arts Ottawa) workshop in Havana, Cuba, led by David Barbour in April 2015 has been a great opportunity to later meet up among the Ottawa participants for the occasional group outing. For our first get together five of us met over pizza...
This winter I signed up for a 10 session course (January – March 2015) on Photojournalism and Documentary Photography run by the School of Photographic Arts Ottawa (SPAO) and led by award-winning photographer David Barbour. I wished to better my skills in these genres and found that David Barbour’s...