In preparation for the release of a new ebook, The Nature of Place: Personal Narratives in Landscape Photography, that I have co-authored with Circle of Light, I have been contemplating again about the relevance of place in our modern, global world and the price that we pay, both individually and societally, when we lose our connection to place...
I want to begin by sincerely thanking you for your continued interest in my work - for the time you’ve taken to listen to presentations, attend workshops, engage with my photography, and for the encouragement and conversations that make this work so meaningful...
A couple of years ago I wrote an article for Nature Photographer’s Network (NPN) called On Looking which I was reminded of recently when I saw the most recent work from the renowned graffiti artist, Banksy, circulating online...
For the most part, I have always titled my images before putting them out into the world. Up until recently, this seemed to come naturally, the thoughts and flow around each image coming together to say something meaningful (to me)...
Practice makes perfect… or so the old adage mistakenly leads some to believe. Aside from the fact that even extensive practice is not enough to explain why people differ in their skill levels, perfection is an illusion, an ideological concept that exists only relative to your own expectations and experiences...
A few metres from my front door runs a creek which was restored as part of a residential development proposal granted by the city. The creek benefits from ongoing remediation work and it’s a pleasure to see critters enjoying the newly restored watershed which had previously been culverted for decades...
We spent the last week of the summer in Kootenay National Park, on the traditional and unceded territories of the Ktunaxa Nation and Secwe̓pemc peoples. It was a welcome break and we were lucky to avoid crowds and smoky skies...
James Carse, who was Director of Religious Studies at New York University for thirty years, introduced the concept of play and possibility as a vision of life, in his book Finite and Infinite Games (1986) which he wrote after participating in a seminar on game theory - the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents...
When I wrote my master’s thesis, there was a compulsory written reflective element. For many, this kind of reflection may have seemed like an unnecessary extra, having already put together a much larger body of work to be scrutinised by the exam board...
