This is a composite of 15 individual photos taken on two different days, under changing weather and lighting conditions. Each photo was approached from a different angle, taken as I strolled around the tree, trying to keep my distance constant, the camera level, and the tree centred in the frame. One day, the ground was […]
September memories
September, summer quietly turns to fall. It happens subtly at first, so subtly that you think summer might never end.
Hazy summer days
Smoke from northern wildfires descends on Saskatoon, casting the city in muted, sepia tones.
After the rain
A prairie rain skims over a dry landscape on a summer day. It’s been dry for weeks. Parched grasses rustle crisply as the lightest breeze sighs a breathless gasp through them under the baking mid-summer sun. The ground crunches with each footstep. Signs warn of extreme wildfire hazard. But then the rain. Not a downpour. […]
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: 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. […]