Category: Photography

I needed some excitement yesterday, and the weather forecast for the South Klondike Highway called for snow and wind, so I figured I’d go down to do some extreme-weather photography. My daughter posted on my Facebook page last night: “Only you would take off down the highway HOPING for...

I’d been watching the Whitehorse and Skagway weather forecasts for the past few days, watching for a day that offered sunshine in both places so I could take the bike down. Yesterday was that day. Heavily layered to keep warm, I was away from the house just after 08:00,...

Great photography makes you think. It might make you think about a place you’ve never been, a place you’ve been a hundred times but have never seen in this way, about your feelings regarding the subject – or it might just make you think about the details of everyday...

Yesterday was a marathon day of photography. I left the house at 3:30am to shoot the Northern Lights, and didn’t get home until 5:30pm. The result was over 300 photos of a wide variety of subjects from the area bordered by Mary Lake, Jake’s Corner and Skagway. Here’s a...

For the past year or so, Canadian Geographic magazine has been asking people to help them choose the cover of the next issue. The image below shows the current option. I chose the middle one – it’s dynamic and I like the clean, contrasting background that emphasizes the action....

If you’re at all interested in photography, you’ve either heard about the light field camera or you will soon – even if you don’t read about it here. 🙂 To see it’s biggest “wow!” feature, click once anywhere on the photo below [Edit: sorry, the “live” image is gone...

I’m in the middle of a job that I have a love-hate feeling about – filing the photographs I’ve shot over the past few months. I spent a lot of time travelling this year, and my purchase of a little Fujifilm S1800 point-and-shoot camera back in mid-May has probably...

It’s always interesting to see the Yukon show up in advertisements as a background in various ways. Doing some shopping online this morning, I came across Canvas People, one of the biggest companies in the turn-your-photo-into-canvas-art business. Their home page right now (see the screen shot below) features a...

I have never found a better salve for the wounds inflicted by emotional trauma than heading off into the mountains. After a difficult weekend of second-hand trauma, I was blessed today by as spectacular a day as I’ve ever seen on the South Klondike Highway. Here’s a brief look...

I’m thoroughly enjoying my new gig as Cruise Consultant – it seems to be the perfect evolutionary step that uses much of what I’ve learned over the past couple of decades in a fun new way. There’s a lot to learn about the business side of things, but I’ve...