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Random captures from a rainy day trip to Presqu'ile Provincial Park. My D800 is now pretty much stuck in 3200ISO Monochr...
03/29/2024

Random captures from a rainy day trip to Presqu'ile Provincial Park. My D800 is now pretty much stuck in 3200ISO Monochrome setting.

Leaves on and in ice. Kind of cool.
03/04/2024

Leaves on and in ice. Kind of cool.

Last Yukon post! We spent the last four days back in Whitehorse. We didn't plan for this trip to be an adventurous backp...
12/05/2023

Last Yukon post! We spent the last four days back in Whitehorse. We didn't plan for this trip to be an adventurous backpacking trip, so we stayed in cozy AirBnB's and motels most nights. This was the yurt we rented and it was very cool, but VERY COLD at night. The first few photos of the yurt were taken at 1 AM.

I look forward to going back again, "ASAP as possible", for another round of midnight sun. It was a wonderful experience.

This post and the next will be the last of my Yukon 2023 photos. This series is from Keno City, Yukon Territory; populat...
12/05/2023

This post and the next will be the last of my Yukon 2023 photos. This series is from Keno City, Yukon Territory; population ~35 people. Getting to Keno City could have been very easy, but we took the wrong turn in the fork and ended up having to drive the mining road, which in some areas seemed impossible to surpass...until we saw someone in a minivan flooring it through like it was just another day on the 401.

We drove up to the top of Keno Hill, where they have the signpost indicating distances from there to various places around the world. The mountain is still an active mining site, but as far as we could tell, there was no one mining.

We ran into a couple at the top that had been traveling all the way from Germany, and were in a converted sprinter van. An older couple drove up there too, and started collecting nails and ash from a pallet fire the previous night. The community had gotten together to commemorate the summer solstice with a massive fire atop the mountain. That same couple said they own a mining site in the area, which they are prospecting and plan on running for the next decade.

We spent "The Night" there in the SUV, and got negative sleep. A rain storm moved in, fogged us up, and stuck around until we left the next day. Jason and I almost got lost on the mountainside as it was rolling in. I'll post a few clips and snapshots to stories.

Today, something a little lighter about the formidable Yukon. The Flowers of Goldensides Trail, Yukon Territory. Goldens...
11/28/2023

Today, something a little lighter about the formidable Yukon. The Flowers of Goldensides Trail, Yukon Territory. Goldensides trail is probably best viewed in the fall, when the hardy ground cover starts to turn *golden*. It was an easy trail compared to Grizzly Lake Trail (previous posts).

Most of the highway routes that we took were lined with Fireweed. It is Yukon's Territorial Flower, and it is abundant throughout. I managed to not take ANY photos of it. NONE. Go me.

"Hello, CAA? I'm...somewhere near the arctic circle." Except, there is no cell service. I think I'm injured, but I can't...
11/26/2023

"Hello, CAA? I'm...somewhere near the arctic circle." Except, there is no cell service. I think I'm injured, but I can't feel anything yet. I'm in shock. I don't even know which way I'm facing. It's so dark. I start to feel wind and snow hit my head from every direction, and I'm still in the car. It was so warm just a few seconds ago.

I can feel the ditch beside me. Still mostly in shock, I instinctively climb out and onto the road. I don't know which way I'm facing. I can barely see any road at all. Maybe a supply truck coming south from Tuktoyaktuk will see me if I wait here.

The wind is aggressively pushing at me, so cold that it feels sharp. My leg is starting to hurt, and so is my head. I have to start walking. I can't survive this cold sitting still. I really hope I'm facing south. I don't know it, but I crashed 150km away from the nearest town. It's over 36 hours of walking, if I never stop once, and never get turned around. I can feel the adrenaline wearing off. I can feel a lot more. How will I make it out of this?

Maybe that's how it happened, or maybe it happened during the warm season. I don't know, and I don't know how long that car had been there when we came upon it. What I do know, is that it was not the only one we saw. The burned-out and rusted frame of a early model pickup sat on the side of a busy section of highway 2. Who knows how many years it had been there. There were a few others as well, also evidently from some time ago.

This is no place for the weak. I really hope that the people involved in this crash made it and are well. Yukon is wild. There is also something awesome about the contrast of the natural landscape and the "skeletal remains" of an exclusively human experience.

Get ready for a few more Yukon posts. I have been having some fantasies of spending a year in this formidable territory....
11/25/2023

Get ready for a few more Yukon posts. I have been having some fantasies of spending a year in this formidable territory. Truth be told, I don't know if I could handle the 18-22 hours of darkness for eight months, but part of me wants to f**k around and find out. I also don't know what Kat and I would do for work, but, we're in no rush to figure it out. Summer was incredibly beautiful, but we did get lucky with the lack of bugs and generally pleasant temperatures.

These photos are from Tombstone Territorial Park. We spent the bigger chunk of our trip in Dawson/Tombstone area. One of the photos is of a Marmot licking on my boot. It did this to several of us; my guess is we had dried salt from previous winters embedded in the fabric.

Winter is approaching, and most plants have or are wilting away. The last few weeks have seen some real warm days though...
11/24/2023

Winter is approaching, and most plants have or are wilting away. The last few weeks have seen some real warm days though, and this seems to have confused some plants into budding again (first photo).

213 Sterling St: A few spontaneous snapshots of and Kevin between shots. On this day, Jason created a few headshots of ...
11/23/2023

213 Sterling St: A few spontaneous snapshots of and Kevin between shots. On this day, Jason created a few headshots of me. I'll share those later.

It has been a long time since I've done a throwback Thursday. I always thought I did not like doing portraits. I thought...
11/02/2023

It has been a long time since I've done a throwback Thursday. I always thought I did not like doing portraits. I thought that they made me anxious, and that I was absolute s**t at them. I'm not the best, but I'm definitely not s**t. These finds from college hard drives suggest that I did like portraiture. That was a great time to try whacky things, because you had a captive audience of roughly the same mind-set, and willing to try your weird ideas.

Doing portraiture is an honour, because you get to create something that your sitter will look on fondly and share with friends and family. It may bring joy in hard times, or fond memories decades later. It may be used to tell children stories, or to share the joy with relatives who live worlds away. That's a kind of value that no other photography can give. It may just be the most important type of photography there is, at least on a subjective level.

I graduated from Humber's photography program in 2019, and I became fixated on succeeding as a food/tabletop specialist. I got so fixated on it that I turned away other opportunities such as headshots. This was because every business book I read advised finding and sticking to a niche. What the books fail to tell you is that a niche is something you get the privilege to pick when you've done enough of "a little bit of everything". It's hard to establish yourself as an expert in something when no-one knows you for anything at all. This may be obvious to you, but it was not to me, so...lesson learned.

That said, I have been growing hungry to do some portrait series revolving around myths and stories, but the ideas are yet to be hatched in my brain. In lieu, here are some favorite portraits pre-2019.

Black and white, grainy, high contrast images seem to have a special place in my mind. I almost shot our entire Yukon tr...
11/01/2023

Black and white, grainy, high contrast images seem to have a special place in my mind. I almost shot our entire Yukon trip this way. I've made a deal with myself to bring my camera out more often for personal use. Since most days now are cold and wet, I think this hard-grained look is very fitting.

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