Road Trip 2017: Sunset, Sunrise

Originally published: August 18, 2017 In Alberta You Don’t Pay the Ferryman Slicing almost due west from the strange tower, we kept to back roads, making our way towards the Red Deer River. All along the way the land teased of something different, just over the horizon.  The GPS, iPhone and Alberta Atlas (that’s an actual paper …

Road Trip 2017: The Badlands’ Last Stand

August 19, 2017 Rowley probably won’t remember us. As they no doubt hoped, we left no trace that we were there. This road trip was winding down. We had no plans and no fixed destination for the day. We rolled generally northwards until I realized we may be getting dangerously close to civilization. At the …

Road Trip 2017: Salt Lakes and Odd Structures

August 17, 2017 Day three I’ve spent a lot of time driving the backroads around Edmonton. As a photographer, you need to put on some distance from the city before things start looking ‘authentic’. You know, the kind of stuff people would see in pictures and say, Nice picture, or, wow, or, I want to buy that! But even at …

Road Trip 2017: Rowley, Filling in the Blanks

August 18, 2017 Douglass Adams was a very cool guy. He wrote the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Read it, don’t watch it), he hung out with the Monty Python gang, he liked Dire Straits, he cared about the environment. When he died David Gilmore played Wish You Here Here at his funeral. That’s pretty cool. Anyway, in the HHGG, Adams introduced us to the Total Perspective …

One Day in Jasper: Allisson Lights a Fire at Medicine Lake

Allisson is a scientist. She doesn’t talk much about it, but I’m pretty sure she’s up to some full on breaking bad type stuff. She is quiet, smart, determined, and a pretty good hiker too, While the rest of us gasped in the heat, each juggling their own particular sherpa-load of equipment and clothes and whatever other …