Category: Photography
I am a Calgary photographer and much of what I write about will come back to my greatest passion. I have twenty years of experience in various iterations of capturing images and hope to impart some of my experience in a fun and entertaining way.
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Burying Nostalgia in Ontario – Overlanding – Trans-Canada ’25 (III)
June 9th, 2025: Day Five Distance Traveled: 5.9KMDays in Hotel/Motel VS Campgrounds: 2/2 Thunder Bay, Ontario It’s 9am even though my laptop says 7am. I just went to Starbucks and was disappointed to only find a Canada mug and not a Thunder Bay mug. I have two choices before me right now. I can go Continue Reading
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Thunder Bay, Ontario – Road Trip Photography – Trans-Canada ’25 (II)
June 7th, 2025: Day Three Distance Traveled: Approx. 500KM Days in Hotel/Motel VS Campgrounds: 1/1 KOA Journey Campground (Outside Winnipeg, Manitoba) – Davy Lake Campground (Ignace, Ontario) I wanted to make it all the way to Thunder Bay today, but I got tired pretty quick. About halfway there I stopped in a campground in a Continue Reading
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Travel Photography Reflections and Preparations – Trans-Canada ’25 (I)
June 2nd 2025 (T-Minus 3 Days) Calgary, Alberta With just a few days to go things are starting to feel very real. I’m not as nervous as I think I should be. Maybe it’ll hit me all at once. Hopefully not like the rock to my windshield recently. This morning, I took a 3.5KM walk Continue Reading
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Minimalist Packing: 3 Essential Laws for Road Trip Success
When it comes to total weight on everything you’ve packed for a road trip it can be death by 1000 cuts. What seemed like a series of rational choices has now become an overstuffed and cumbersome set of bags. Each time I take a road trip I find myself regretting some of the things I’ve Continue Reading
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Navigating Unforeseen Challenges Before Your Road Trip
As of this post date, I am thirteen days out from leaving Calgary on my cross-Canada road trip. What an appropriate number for this topic. Dealing with setbacks or in other words rolling with the bad luck of planning for a road trip. While my experiences are pretty unique to me perhaps you’ll find some Continue Reading
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Inglewood’s Gresham Block: A Tale of Neglect and Change
The Gresham Block was a late Edwardian style commercial structure built in 1911 and stood on the corner of 9th avenue and 13th Street, in the heart of Inglewood. Built by brothers John and Henry Dismorr after purchasing the lot in 1910, Gresham Block cost $30,000 to build (about a million in today’s money). The Continue Reading
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The Minolta X-700: A History
The Minolta X-700 is a 35mm SLR introduced in 1981 and represents the last manual focus SLR by Minolta before the release of the Maxxum 7000 in 1985. Minolta’s brochure called it a “state of the art quartz-control electronic 35mm SLR” They boasted a first ever “shutter weighted system” meaning the camera is programmed to Continue Reading
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The Super Accurate Darkroom in Spider-Man 2 For the PS5
I broke the bank and got Spider-Man 2 on launch day when I said I wouldn’t, maybe I saw one too many clips on YouTube but none the less I pulled out the ‘ol Master Card and when I got home spent the next few days glued to the set. Early on in the game, Continue Reading
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Capturing the Beauty of Alberta’s Grain Elevators 2025
I’ve been working on capturing every grain elevator I can find here in Alberta fore the past few years now. I’m getting close to completing my project, with only about a dozen left to shoot now. The trip journal below doubles as a dress rehearsal for another project. You can learn about what I mean Continue Reading
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Why a Dress Rehearsal is Crucial for Your Trip
At the time of this writing, I am T-Minus thirty-nine days until I leave on a sixty-day road trip across Canada and back. From Calgary, Alberta to St. John’s, Newfoundland and so much in between. The road trip prep has been extensive. Going from zero to sixty as it were, is quite the leap. Especially Continue Reading
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