I was fortunate enough to have installed the Meetup app on my smartphone in early February 2020 and soon discovered the Vancouver Photoxperience group and signed up for a photo tour of the Orpheum Theatre. The event organizers arranged the tour for 30 people and with many thanks to...
In July 2019 I visited a good friend of mine in Moncton, New Brunswick, and was given an excellent tour of some spectacular coastline in New Brunswick. St. Martins |Fundy Trail Parkway St. Martins is a village along the Fundy Trail Parkway and a place to witness the phenomenal...
This beautiful red fox was out hunting near Ottawa in mid January 2019 when I was most fortunate to witness its skills. It’s actually quite astonishing how a fox can locate a mouse or other little tasty meal under the snow at 25 feet away. I was pretty quiet...
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...
In late April, 2018, I spent a nice relaxing 5 days in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was a quiet time of year, the snow had melted and Spring had not yet sprung. Tourists were not here in droves and many key attractions were not yet in full swing. Nonetheless,...
On Saturday, February 17, 2018, the Raven U-Sport Last Chance Invitational Track & Field Meet was held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This event was made for athletes as the last chance to improve their ranking and represent their university at the provincial championship to be held the following weekend...
One early autumn day in late October I accompanied my good friend and uOttawa Gee-Gees track coach, Normand Séguin, at Strathcona Park (next to the Rideau River in Sandy Hill, Ottawa) for his routine Saturday coaching session. Normand himself was a track athlete in his early days and now...
My friend Dave recently adopted Lilly, a Jack Russell mix (possibly a mix with chihuahua or dachshund, 7 years old), and approached me for a photo shoot out at the Dominion Arboretum near Dow’s Lake, Ottawa. Of course I said yes, what a perfect opportunity to promote the SPCA...
My closest recollection to an animal park was the Vancouver Game Farm (now the Greater Vancouver Game Farm) that I visited in 1971 at 8 years of age when I was living in Vancouver, BC. Would there be elephants at Omega Park? That’s me up front, with my cousin...
This year the Ottawa Zombie Walk was held on Sunday, October 2nd, and started from the Ottawa City Hall, up Lisgar, right on Bank, and onward to Parliament Hill. Have a peek at my Ottawa Zombie Walk 2013 photos.