little one wriggling

I travelled north today to photograph Rhiannon in her last few weeks of pregnancy. A fellow entrepreneur and artist, Rhiannon and I have much in common. I however, am not pregnant. It was wonderful spending this quality time with you Rhi – thank you for sharing this with me.



Rhiannon's website can be found here.

Outdoor Canada magazine calling Freestone Spirit

One of our photographs will be the “Journal Feature” (double spread) in the upcoming May issue of Outdoor Canada Magazine!



The image was taken while Sarah and I were on our honeymoon. We spent the better part of June in beautiful Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. When breaking camp one fine morning along the Maligne River – we noticed a tremendous amount of activity. Here were hundreds, maybe thousands of dragonflies that were emerging. We photographed and fished there for hours. Many fish and many photos later we decided that eventually we did indeed, need to move along. Other beauties from that morning:



Thank you for your business, Outdoor Canada! It is very much appreciated.

Renos

For the past couple of days the camera has been idle, allowing the shovel to come out. Gardening season is on its way.
Also, a trowel seems to have found its way into my hands. It has actually been calling for some time – today I started to listen. Tiling work in Linda’s home - mmmm, heated floor!

cover shot

Okanagan Life Magazine March cover. Andrew James playing with fire and light (see February 23rd).

Freestone Spirit is now with Photoshelter!

PhotoShelter: Fresh Stock Photos Served Dailly

Freestone Spirit's page at Photoshelter:

http://my.photoshelter.com/freestonespirit

experiment on still objects

Whenever I try to sit down with one of our pets to work on some extra lighting schemes they always end up turning playful:




Now I will be the first to say that there is nothing near wrong with this, in fact, quite encouraged – however, repeatability can be problematic. Therefore . . .
From this happening over and over I have found that, though really quite uninteresting, Batchewaung’s play toy (or any still object) can be much more co-operative:

Professional development seminar

I’m back. Thankfully, it was beautiful - nice weather for driving, which is not always the case at this time of the year. A big thank you goes out to Michael Moster, Kent Wong, Andrew Simpson and Philomena Hughes for organizing and sharing so much during this seminar – it is very much appreciated!

workshop weekend

I'm off to Prince George for a Professional Photographers of BC workshop. Hope the weather stays as nice as it is today! Talk to you again real soon.

from the file labeled Paradise

25 cm of fluffy snow fell from the Okanagan sky last night; today, a wonderful treat at Big White. I love this time of the year in western Canada, we'll call it seasonal diversity. It is spring in the valley bottom with flowers creeping out of their winter slumber; winter in the mountains with storms often giving the biggest snowfalls of the season.

A few snapshots taken today with my little Canon point and shoot:

Spring is Springing

Here in the Okanagan Valley, spring is on the way. Red-winged blackbirds are already out staking their claims in the marsh near my home.



This afternoon, we (our friendly dogs and I) got out to staking some of our own claim. It was a beautiful sunny day here. Echo, Ati and I got outside and enjoyed some open air and dry ground.