My nieces and nephews (and their parents) have a unique advantage: ample camera practice before family portrait season even rolls around. Me? I have eleven (local) built-in models who are (slowly!) learning to ask for a photo (and then begging to see all the images). When nephew Isaiah had a birthday bonfire in the rain, what else was…
An ode to my first professional camera, upon its demise: You were a long time in coming to me, the journey scattered with high school photo contests and college poli-sci text books. Your cousins the Pentax K-1000 and the Nikon D80 prepared me for the joy that was your whistles and bells, for the delight…
Will I someday become jaded to the beauty? Will I ignore the brilliant blues and greens that typify a British Columbia summer? Will I forget to breathe in the glory that is fresh mountain air? Will I see yet another mountain range and ignore it’s intricate design? Will I summit a peak and turn away,…
One year ago (almost exactly), I was emerging from my six weeks of hospitalization and embracing the beauty of life renewed after so many days of illness and so many surgeries and so many questions and so many doctors. In the aftermath of The Summer of Hospitals, my goal for Summer 2015 has been to…
We spent forty-five minutes together one Saturday morning. Two boys, two helmets, two parents, the four (collective) wheels, and me. The Murrayville Skateboard Park at W.C. Blair Recreation Centre in Langley was deserted at 9am on a steaming hot morning, so I got to watch all the tricks as many times as I wanted to….
What you see here represents several months of planning, the celebration of European and Canadian contingencies of the family convening in one time zone, and the speedy cooperation of everyone involved so their week on the lake together in Shuswap could begin pronto! Not pictured here is my very first lesson in driving a front…
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