David and the Camera: salmon

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Beyond The Ranch, Part 1

So...
...with my interest in photography rekindled I set out with a point and shoot Canon in hand when I moved deeply into the wilderness where I managed a fly-in camp. The camp was intended for helicopter access fishing excursions but the proximity of mineral exploration and its related activity filled our camp with scientists, surveyors and support personnel instead; which proved to be good for the owner of the camp, who profited greatly while failing to keep his promise of recompensing me according to the increased work load. Life is like that though and when like a fool I returned for the second season I at least brought with me a Nikon D70 D-SLR that I had purchased during the winter off-season.

Today I will post some photographs I made with the Canon A70 point-and-shoot.

Approaching camp in a Bell Jet Ranger Helicopter...

Bronson Creek Camp On Iskut River

Here I am with my Canon A70 at a small lake we fished...

Greetings

Here is a visiting friend with a "Fish On!" while angling a shallow river...

Angling Success

And here is the boss with a worthy catch in the same small river...

Lugging The Lunker (King Salmon)

You never know what you will see when flying around in a chopper...

Swimming Moose

We had some pretty fine scenery while hiking as well...

Twin Glacier

Friday, March 13, 2009

And Now

Resurrection. During my unplugged years in the backwoods it was as though I had died to my past, and then I rebirthed. I had lain in the grave for a time but then the trumpet sounded and I was called forth, back into life, into aspirations and ambitions, into renewed hope and fresh vision. I have emerged from my dark ages a new man.

I do not see death itself as a permanent state and observation of the order of nature itself tells me that life springs forth from death...

What has this to do with photography? Well, in this case it is a roundabout way of introducing my first digital presentation on this photography blog-

Scenes From A Cemetery.
For many people a graveyard is a place to avoid, yet within the courts of a cemetery I have discovered many things, including not only sorrow and loss but also hope, life, promise and yes, even beauty. I am in the midst of a long term project to produce a book depicting these moods that can be found in such a place, and here today I would like to begin my digital photography blog with scenes from Mount Ida Cemetery, Salmon Arm, BC., Canada, for my old life has died, my old photographic ways have passed and life and art forge forward together, alive and renewed yet connected to the past.

Field Of Stones