One day in early September, 1987, I got a call from a freelance writer looking for a photographer to accompany him on an assignment.
This day long ago
Warm evening on the cusp of autumn. Flocks of Canada geese honking overhead and harvest dust tinting evening skies remind you that fall is already well underway.
The Fowl Supper
It’s fall supper season in Saskatchewan. Back in 1986, they still referred to these as fowl suppers. Did you wonder what it was like behind the scenes, before the doors opened?
Memories in film: Cats Basking
Barn cats relaxing in warm sunshine on a late autumn day, 1 November 1987.
Memories in film: shadowy figures
Shadowy figures on catwalk, National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 30 July 1988. Three people with their backs to the camera are seated at tables on a catwalk suspended above the main floor of a glass wall on a day when the sky is hazy. Another catwalk is suspended one floor above, with no people. […]
Memories in film: Ottawa River sunset
Hazy sunset, Ottawa River, Ottawa, 7 July 1988. Kodachrome slide with characteristic magenta cast contributes to moody tone of sun setting on a day with sky hazy from smoke of wildfires in northern Quebec and Ontario. Sun hangs like an orange ball in a magenta sky above a forest tinged dark blue in the haze […]
Memories in film: Battle for a Capital
The Canadian War Museum presented “Battle for a Capital”, a mock battle of the American Revolution and the creation of the Canadian-American Boundary, 1775–1783. In 1988, some 700 American and Canadian re-enactment enthusiasts gathered at Major’s Hill Park on Saturday, July 2 and at Jacques Cartier Park on Sunday, July 3, attracting about 50,000 spectators. […]
Vancouver memories in Kodachrome
Organizing the archive, ran across slides of the old Vancouver neighbourhood, 1980. That place sure has changed! Kodachrome 64 35mm slides, 1980.
Midway memories
Long before Silver City Days, our annual fair was called the Trail International Festival. In 1974, two friends and I stood atop the roof of the Crown Point Hotel to get these photos of the midway located on Bay Avenue.
Sleeping on Snow
Days are getting longer, nights are less cold. Night skies at this time of year are spectacular. A recent conversation reminded me of past winter camping trips and, in particular, a trip that I did with a friend a few years ago.