Saskatoon watercross race
Last weekend I went down to the Saskatoon River Landing with my coffee buddies Rick Elvin, Bas Hobson, Bob Littlejohn and Scott Prokop to photograph watercross races on the South Saskatchewan River. Watercross is an unusual sport – it can best be described as motocross on water jet skis. Riders zoom around an obstacle course at speeds up to 100 kilometres per hour. About 36 top racers from Canada and the USA took part in the 2013 Western Canadian Watercross Nationals. The program also included a wakeboarding demonstration (surf boarding on a wake produced by a speed boat that pulls the...
Read MorePhoto Contest – The World We Live In
Canadian photography magazines Photo Life and Photo Solution are inviting photographers to submit their best work to The World We Live In photo contest. There are three main themes: Humanity – Each person has a story to tell. Capture images of people around you; show some of the many facets of humanity. The Environment – Show the outstanding beauty of our living world, whether through wide landscapes or close-ups of natural elements, animals, plants or insects. Interconnections – Humans are by nature interactive beings. Show how we transform and create things. Contest is...
Read MoreLandscape Photography Workshop a success
Big thank you to enthusiastic photographers who attended the Landscape Photography and Basic Digital Workflow photo workshop on Sunday. We had a full slate of participants not only from the Saskatoon area, but places further away; Beverly and Gail drove up from Regina, and Patricia came from Big River. The format that I chose for half-day photo workshops at the Ancient Spirals Retreat is working as planned. We had an introductory tutorial where I covered the topic of ‘light in the landscape’. After a short break with treats, I talked about the basics of digital capture and then...
Read MoreSaskTel Phone Book cover – Regina District
Fourth in the series of SaskTel phone books with my image on the cover is out in circulation. This batch is for the Regina Distict (area surrounding the city of Regina). Image on the cover is of a freight train after a storm, capured in Strasbourg north of Regina. There are a few more regional phone books in the works – they will be released later this year. Here is a list of the SaskTel regional phone books with my images on the cover page (in the order of appearance). Moose Jaw – published Estevan/Weyburn – published Swift Current – published Regina District...
Read MoreHorse in pasture with sagebrush, Val Marie PFRA Community Pasture
I spent several hours photographing a group on horses near the Val Marie PFRA community pasture headquarters. This horse decided to run through a field of sagebrush to catch up with his buddies. Val Marie PFRA is the largest community pasture in Saskatchewan, containing over 41,256 hectares (101,946 acres) of magnificent native prairie. Frenchman River flows through the pasture, with rugged valley slopes adding to it’s photographic appeal. Together with the adjacent Beaver Valley PFRA pasture, there are over 200,000 acres (80,000 hectares) of un-interrupted native prairie. Something...
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