trails of Westbank

As part of the ongoing work for Westbank Tourism, Rose and I spent some time yesterday working in the Gellatly Nut Farm and along the trails of Power’s Creek. We got some beautiful shots along the lakeshore, in the trails of the farm and along the creek. Thank you Rose, you are a delight to work with.

Summer issue of Okanagan Life Magazine

I met and photographed two wonderful people yesterday. Jenine Stickler owns and operates Lamps-a-Lot in Westbank. They take lamps that are destined to dust collection or worse and turn them into funky little treasures. Carol Jackson saves books from being destroyed and offers them for free from her garage. Reuse, wonderful. Thank you Jenine. Thank you Carol.

horsing around

While in Vancouver over the past few days one of the things that I worked on was developing images for a project on horse culture. I want to focus on the intimate moments, the scenes that we, as outsiders, rarely glimpse. Justine, a close friend of Sarah and I, volunteered some of her time to work with me. Justine is a professional rider and trainer, the most perfect subject that I could ask for. Thank you Justine!

Disconnected until the 23rd

I have been doing some ongoing work for the Westbank Chamber of Commerce – I’ll leave you with a little flavor from work done in this past week - some action shots mixed with high dynamic range landscapes . . .




Come back on the 23rd to see what I’ve been up to now!

Okanagan Life Magazine – June Issue

This project was a great bit of fun. The upcoming issue is all about big ideas and my job was to illustrate a number of these ideas.
A few of the ideas needed now (green roofs, cooperation, a superhero, the need for more sleep, rapid transit) + a couple of great kids (Adrian and Talia) = creative delight!











Thanks guys!

Rainmakers' Finale

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing Rod Butters, co-owner and head chef of Fresco Restaurant here in Kelowna.


Rod is a creative thinker and artist, a real pleasure to work with. Thanks Rod!

Rainmaker – Barry Lapointe

Barry Lapointe is the President and founder of Kelowna Flightcraft. I did not realize until setting foot on the premises, how big of an operation that they have. “Kelowna Flightcraft owns the largest fleet of aircraft operating in the Canadian Air Freight market” (from: Kelowna Flightcraft Webpage) = many busy people. Thanks Barry, for being a sport and joining me in the rain and drizzle!

Rainmaker – Chief Clarence Louie

Chief Clarence Louie is the straight-talking Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band. Their economic development team is creating big opportunities in the southern interior of British Columbia. Chief Clarence Louie’s leadership is well known (CBC – The National – Profile). Having studied Native Studies in my time at Trent University – he is well known to me as well. Meeting the Chief was an honor, as well as a breath of fresh air - a down to earth, gentleman.

Upon the Chief’s suggestion, we also included the newest generation from the community – the future. Thank you for spending this time with me Chief.

Rainmakers continues . . .

Janice Perrino is a woman of many hats; just one of them as director of development with the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation. We met yesterday in Penticton. Janice, your cheerfulness is contagious and much appreciated!

Rainmakers' Portraits

I’ve been assigned by Okanagan Life Magazine to produce portraits of a number of important Okanaganites’ – “Rainmakers” is to be a special issue that is being published this spring.

Yesterday I had the great pleasure of working with Brad Bennett, President of McIntosh Properties Ltd, member of the UBC Board of Governors and most importantly – avid fisherman! Thank you so much for taking time out of your very busy schedule to share some time.



Sigrid-Ann Thors has a very impressive history of community involvement and is currently Chair of the Vernon and District Performing Arts Society. Pictured here in the Vernon Performing Arts Theatre, she epitomizes the face in the crowd. A tireless behind-the-scenes worker, it was a pleasure to meet you Sigrid-Ann.