Rocks at Mermaid Cove

I made this image of various shaped rocks at Mermaid Cove on British Columbia's Sunshine coast during a road trip through the area this past June. The area is popular for under water divering and also offers some pretty incredibly beautiful scenery above the water too. I waited for the tide to go out and made the image with my 4 x 5 view camera as the sun set on a gloriously wonderful day with fine sunny skies, in which the appropriately named Sunshine Coast lived up to.

My Island View

While staying on Hornby Island earlier this year I found myself a delightful camping spot at a privatley owned campsite called Bradsdadsland Country Camp Resort on Shingle Spit Road. I pretty well had the whole campsite to myself as it was in the middle of the week and was in early June before school was out for the summer. My scenic spot over looked Lambert Channel with the mountains of Vancouver Island peaking over Denman Island. I set up my 4 x 5 view camera up across from my site and while doing various campisite duties like coooking myself dinner I as able to watch the light as it moved in and out of the clouds and make my pictures.

Moraine Lake View #2

Here is a slightly different view of Moraine Lake that I made on a snow day on the 15th of September 2006. Photograph was made with a Tachihara 8 x 10 view camera and a 270 mm lens.

Majestic Moraine Lake

I have been away from my Okanagan home for the past week photographing in Banff National Park, where during my stay in the Rockies, it snowed, quite often I camp but on this trip I was staying with friends in Canmore, Alberta, which was lucky for me. The weather started out quite summer like and we got a nice hike in at Taylor Lake, but by mid week it started to rain and the next day it was snowing, the clouds hung low over the mountain peaks, not the most inspiring conditions for mountain landscape photography. By the end of the week there was a slight improvement and I excitedly made my way to Moraine Lake and Lake Louise in Banff National Park, with a few breaks in the clouds I was able to make some nice pictures. The image posted was taken with my tachihara 8 x 10 view camera and a 270mm lens, it was taken from the rock pile at the one end of the lake.

Impressionistic Sandstone

Here is another image of the varied and beautifully sculpted sandstone around the base of Hornby Island. The image was made with my 4 x 5 view camera and a 120 mm lens.

Nature's Art Gallery

This image is of a sandstone cliff on Hornby Island, most of the Island is made up of this material as are many of the Gulf Islands around Vancouver Island, it makes for fantastic images. Each formation is unique and is constantly evolving with the wind, rain and sea water eroding the surface. Looking at the abstract formations, they really are nature's art galleries.

Natural Phenomena of Tides

When the tide goes out I think its a magical and natural phenomena and one of my favourite places that I like to photograph is along the seashore of the West Coast of British Columbia. Although tides are explained by the moon's gravitational force when I think about all the water moved around the entire world it amazing, it would be hard to magine a number to measure the amount of water in litres or gallons. In this photo taken on Hornby Island I thought the different shapes of the rocks drapes with sea grass made for an interesting image. The photograph was made with my Tachihara 4 x 5 view camera and a 120 mm lens on a fine cloudy day in mid June of this year.