This is the season of travellers. A couple hundred showed up yesterday, as the last of the sun burst in under the clouds, with its deep orange rays come in horizontally from […]
Travelling Time
The Nature of Photography
A camera lens is a device for making images of light. It does not capture the light, as leaves can do. It does not do the other things that a human eye […]
A Science of Colour and the Art of Science
I’ve been walking around these last couple days as the earth turns its shoulder away from the sun and the sun comes in lower and lower angles through the grass, sometimes just […]
More Beautiful Water
Yesterday, the world froze mid-breath. Here it is, so you can breath some more of it… … because when I saw it turn into the sun … …I stopped breathing … … […]
The Beauty of Water
First … wonder, then … more wonder.
Last night it snowed. This morning it melted and all that water went away. Well, not entirely. Mullein, 1 pm Last night’s snow has turned to sleet, caught by the hairs on […]
Environmentally Friendly Rototiller
Yes, no more do you have to zip on down to the gas pump to fuel up your tiller with refined tar sand goo. No more do you have to sit in […]
The Incubator Part 2
On Friday, I introduced the Cube, an experimental art space in Campbell River, as a model for a new type of art mentorship. If you missed it, here’s the discussion. For almost […]
The Ethics of Nature Photography
Humanly created machines are great at capturing light and holding it tight for another day. It’s not so special, though. Everybody in the neighbourhood is into it. The juniper people, for instance […]
Water Planet
I tell you, this is one beautiful planet. It does great stuff with water and light, for instance… Okanagan Lake, Friday, 3 pm Of course, as a child of this planet […]
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