Geoff Lister Photography

Geoff Lister Photography Wedding and Freelance photographer in Vancouver and the Okanagan

Garage Cafe. Simple concept: it’s a sunny Saturday, your garage backs onto the main drag near a busy street. You pull ou...
07/22/2026

Garage Cafe. Simple concept: it’s a sunny Saturday, your garage backs onto the main drag near a busy street. You pull out the espresso machine, pour a few coffees. People like coffee.

And so the next sunny Saturday, you do it again, and you invite some musicians to play music, and you invite a baker who drops off bread for you each week to sell a few things. And you have artists hang art on the wall. And people like coffee, and they seem to love your garage.

This is what starting a small business should look like. We’ve turned it into a maze of compliance and six figure renovations. What’s happening is people aren’t opening small businesses.

Garage cafe shows what a little imagination could lead us towards. Props to Kits Garage Café for opening up a little window into what the future should look like.

What does it mean to be Canadian?Between Yara Van Kessel becoming a Citizen of Canada, national pride on full display ac...
07/06/2026

What does it mean to be Canadian?

Between Yara Van Kessel becoming a Citizen of Canada, national pride on full display across our whole city as Team Canada advanced further than ever in the World Cup, Canada Day, and a tidal shift in our nation’s sense of self over the last year, I’ve been reflecting on what it means to belong to a country where we have so much, yet have so much to do.

What is evident is that we belong, and as a nation we can come together, and together, we as a nation can do great things.

Hope rises out of dark times, not out of comfortable conditions. The opportunity is in front of us, we only need to grab it, nurture it, and share it with everyone around us.

Lifestyle and student work shot simultaneously alongside motion for .Shooting on the motion, finding unique angles on a...
05/29/2026

Lifestyle and student work shot simultaneously alongside motion for .

Shooting on the motion, finding unique angles on a fast moving set, tons of fun putting this one together.

Everyone has to try out the floating paperclip on a visit to TRIUMF.Digging through the archives and found these from la...
05/10/2026

Everyone has to try out the floating paperclip on a visit to TRIUMF.

Digging through the archives and found these from last year. Minister Mélanie Joly visiting TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator lab. Rare isotopes, advanced medical research, a floating paperclip powered by superconducting magnets, and me nodding confidently like I knew what any of it meant.

Stunning facility. Brilliant people. Absolutely zero idea what ARIEL does. Something world-changing, apparently. The only purpose-built rare isotope facility of its kind on Earth. No big deal.

Reviewing and re-editing some summer classics of the from years past. Sure is starting to look pretty in Vancouver. ...
05/05/2026

Reviewing and re-editing some summer classics of the from years past.

Sure is starting to look pretty in Vancouver.

There’s a window of about four minutes where the city is neither day or night, where the sky still holds the last of the...
04/28/2026

There’s a window of about four minutes where the city is neither day or night, where the sky still holds the last of the rose light and the streets have already started glowing.

This was one of those four minutes. BC Place marking the city below, the mountains fading to black, the bay holding everything together like it always has.

I don’t know what Vancouver will look like in twenty years. I know I want to keep watching it change.

What happens when you take a classic from 1999, add a little 2010’s magic, a spruce it up with a modern drive and access...
10/07/2025

What happens when you take a classic from 1999, add a little 2010’s magic, a spruce it up with a modern drive and accessories?

You get a monster truck of a gravel bike. Or a cross country bike? Choose your weapon, it ain’t UCI legal anyways.

Haul it straight up anything with the outrageous 722% gear range and a titanium frame. Yes, those are carbon wheels, too. Truly built for a place like the Vancouver coast.

Full specs here, accessories in the comments:

Bike from Ian

Frame: 1999 Pro Titanium frame (TST welded) with IS brake tabs and hose guides added by Dekerf in 2015
Fork: Lefty PBR Max 140 serviced with new PBR cartridge added by Mendon Cyclesmith
Rims: Carbon 27.5 M60HV (32mm wide 28mm deep)
Rear hub: Shimano XTR M980 32h
Front hub: 32h
Spokes: Sapim CXRay
Crankset: Shimano M980 Triple 175mm run as a double, now with 22t 12s Prowheel steel small chainring, 38t 12s Prowheel aluminum large chainring, carbon bashring
Front Derailleur: Shimano M980 E-Type Top Swing Dual Pull
Rear Derailleur: GRX RX822 SGS 12s
Chain: SUMC SX12 12v Orange/Black
Cassette: ZTTO 11-46 HG 12s
Shifters: Shimano 105 ST-R7120 2x12S
Calipers: Shimano M985 Trail
Bottom Bracket: Shimano XT
Front Rotor: Shimano XT 180mm
Rear Rotor: 140mm Floating (for frame clearance), bolts upgraded to orange coated
Handlebar: NoName Carbon ‘New Gravel’ bar 390mm top 530mm Drops
Bar Tape:
Tires: Racing Ralph TLR Performance ADDIX 2.2” setup tubeless with Orange Seal
Seatpost: Coast 27.2mm 120mm Suspension Dropper
Dropper Lever: KS Carbon Lever 31.8mm
Cables: Dura-Ace Polymer Coated
Saddle: Flite TT

Fitness changed my life. Working as a photographer wrecked me. A characteristic keyboard and camera-induced slouch. Low ...
09/10/2025

Fitness changed my life.

Working as a photographer wrecked me. A characteristic keyboard and camera-induced slouch. Low back pain that could leave me crawling around for a week. I didn’t think I’d keep going.

Then I started going to . At first, I could barely finish a class. I’d be hurting for days after. But week by week, month by month, I kept at it. Three days a week, five days a week. It took me a year, but I got there.

Now, Im doing sports I never thought I’d do again. I’m working on training I’d never thought possible again. And I owe a lot of it to coaches like , .fit, .ulmer, .richardson_ , and others. I’m happy I get to pay it back by photographing these great people doing what they do best.

Went on a run with last week. a) Too fast.b) look at that fit. is making every season look sharp.
06/19/2025

Went on a run with last week.

a) Too fast.
b) look at that fit.

is making every season look sharp.

The last 30 days have been an absolutely wild ride.⁠⁠When asked me to come on to the campaign as director of communicat...
05/01/2025

The last 30 days have been an absolutely wild ride.⁠
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When asked me to come on to the campaign as director of communications, it was a daunting ask. It’s a role I’ve never taken on, and while my marketing skills are still pretty sharp, it’s been a while since I paid attention to politics with the intensity required to work on a campaign. But he assured me he would have my back—and he lived up to that promise.⁠
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Kit, who initially pitched it to me as a 10-15 hours per week part-time role, quickly ramped it up to a 10-15 hour per day life-engulfing rollercoaster. Challenges ranged from “How do we create an entire marketing campaign to sell a person and idea within the riding in just a couple of weeks?” to real, crisis management moments, like “how do you move forward after one of the darkest days in Vancouver’s history happened just down the street?”⁠
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There is nothing like doing hard things with people you enjoy. I’m still recovering from this, but I’ll remember it.⁠
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A big thanks to everyone on the team who made this campaign possible, and especially to for her putting her name forward. Here’s to maybe never doing this again.

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