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Distortion
Efforts to capture scale sometimes backfire in unintended, but interesting ways – as in this image.
Read MoreVintage
… charm and character, both of which are found in this old perfume bottle. Some women may recall, as do I, their grandmother’s dressing table with perfumes, jewellery box (we are talking a different era) and so on. The bottle…
Read MoreForest Lounge
No, not that kind of lounge. We’re back in the woods again, with ferns circling an old trunk that’s hosting new life. This image is from West Vancouver’s Lighthouse Park, which is home to old growth trees, fresh, clean air…
Read MoreGentle Skies
At day’s end in Sechelt, on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, I took this image with admiration for the incredible colours of these soothing, shifting skies.
Read MoreSun Kissed
At least a hundred feet below these dancing leaves, I stood on the shaded trail breathing in and admiring the old growth forest, and how the sun found a way to stroke these leaves which, reaching for Sol, appeared to…
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Truly Grand
… is this canyon, even if you arrive – as did we – barely moments before a serious downpour of rain. The stark tree, which appears petrified but was simply bare at this point in the season, adds an ominous…
Read MoreClosing Time
… at Kits Pool, once all the swimmers have shaken the water from their respective ears, towelled off and headed home for the evening. The pool will close for the season this weekend, sending the regulars back to the Aquatic…
Read MoreHope
Hope is a small town through which many British Columbians have driven, travelling to or from what we call the Lower Mainland to other parts of the province. Minivans, SUVs and carloads of families count on Hope as a pit…
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