Bay of Fundy
Fishing Weirs
A trip to photograph herring weirs off the islands of Grand Manan, Campobello and Deer Island, New Brunswick
For over a year before the start of this photography trip, I’d been reading about, and become fascinated with, herring weirs. Despite the fact that weir fishing is dying out in many parts of the world, there is a living weir fishing culture in the Bay of Fundy in Canada.
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Ice Fishing Huts
An invitation from an old friend to visit Manitoba turns into a great trip to photograph ice fishing huts on Lake Winnipeg.
When an old friend invited me out to his cabin on Lake Winnipeg the week between Christmas and New Year, when the College where I work as a librarian is closed, I jumped at the chance. Even though it looked like a great opportunity to just relax, I couldn’t stop myself from scouting potential photo ops online. That’s when I came across pictures of wonderfully colourful and singular fishing huts that sit out on the lake in winter. Immediately I began to think of a creating a series of images of those fishing huts. I know it’s been done before, but it still sounded to me like a great project.
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Hunting for Icebergs in Newfoundland
A trip to Newfoundland in June 2018,
hunting for icebergs.
In June 2018, I headed to Newfoundland, searching for icebergs. I had been to The Rock, as it is affectionately known, in 2015, visiting the Bonavista Peninsula and Gros Morne and I had seen a few icebergs, but this time I wanted to do a trip primarily focused on finding and photographing as many icebergs as I could. Icebergs, which have mostly calved from glaciers in Greenland, travel past Newfoundland every year in May, June and into July through what's called Iceberg Alley. It had been a slow start to the iceberg season, with many fewer icebergs coming down from the north than usual, but I hoped that by flying into Deer Lake and just targeting two main northern areas (Twillingate and St. Anthony) and staying in each place for a few days, I would get lucky in finding icebergs and being able to photograph them in nice conditions.
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Photographing Grain Elevators and Winter Scenes on the Prairies
A fourth winter trip to the Prairies (Alberta and Saskatchewan)
As I set off for my fourth winter trip to the Prairies, in December 2017, things didn’t look good in terms of snow levels. If you look at that Snow Depth map from the day before I left, the brown area in eastern Alberta and western Saskatchewan with no snow was exactly where I was going. I had done a similar trip in December 2016 when there was also very little snow in Saskatchewan, and a bit more in eastern Alberta. Well, there is nothing I can do about it, I thought. I’ll just have to make the best of what is there. I dream about heavy snow and wonderful minimalist images, but sometimes you get just a few centimetres and, still, I think there are interesting images to be made.
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