By John Wilson | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
Real photographers shoot black and white … sometimes colour. (Ted Grant – 1930-2020) Hi All! It’s me again with part 3 of the continuing saga. This time we do COLOUR! The Hedley Art series was in colour, but that was a necessity. Imagine those spectacular paintings in BW … And, I’ve made an Executive decision […]
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By John Wilson | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
In Part 2, we wind the clock back to the beginning of the trip, to our first stop in Hedley and The Old Trading Post. You’ll recall … “The first stop on the outbound route east was the town of Hedley on the way to Osoyoos our first stopover. Hedley (pop.242) is an old […]
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By John Wilson | Travel Photography
Yes … it’s been a while! The COVID clouds have parted and it’s been two years since the “6 pack” hit the road into the hinterlands cameras in hand. After a month of planning and discussion we took to the road on May 27 for 12 days exploring south eastern BC. All told with side […]
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By John Wilson | Travel Photography
Who’s Bruckner? What’s Bralorne? And where’s Bradian? Let’s begin at the beginning. I grew up in a house full of music, including the classical composers and performers of the day and four piano players (one of them considered concert grade). There was a time when I was perfectly content with all the usual suspects … […]
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By John Wilson | Art & Creativity
For several years I lived in North Vancouver at the eastern end of the north shore of Vancouver Harbour. It is a beautiful area at the foot of Mount Seymour, replete with forests, plenty of wildlife, salmon spawning streams and rivers and a little gem called Deep Cove. To get to North Vancouver you must […]
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By John Wilson | Art & Creativity
High up in the Cariboo Mountains of South West British Columbia, on the back road from Barkerville to Likely sits Ghost Lake. As a lake it’s nothing special – you can boat, camp and fish there just like a host of other lakes in this evergreen playground I call home … and there are no […]
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By John Wilson | Art & Creativity
“Enigma – A person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.” (Oxford) A few years ago I got introduced to the work of Abelardo Morell, a Cuban American photographer and Professor Emeritus of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art. He’s most famous for his “Camera Obscura” project which turns rooms into a camera […]
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By John Wilson | Travel Photography
-Prayer Flags of the Kootenay Plains- So how big is your backyard? Your neighborhood, town or city? I’m Canadian and that means I live in the second largest country in the world. For us a 600 mile drive is a jaunt, so my backyard is a “little bigger” than usual. Which leads to my […]
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By John Wilson | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
North American usage: Slough (pronounced – sloo): A side channel or inlet, or a natural channel that is only sporadically filled with water. Much loved and much maligned, the unplanned, unregulated collection of houses, boardwalks, net sheds and boats called Finn Slough straddles the channel between Whitworth Island and Lulu Island on the Fraser River in […]
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