I live very close to Teck-Cominco Trail operations, it's a constant in my landscape. Many times I really don't like the factory (the smelter), but other times the play of light with the steam against the mountains/sky is quite beautiful to see. I added four more images to the gallery today.

I have been thinking a lot about graffiti, and reading about it. I find the concept fascinating, how some person somewhere feels the need to make this fantastic thing that they know will likely just be painted over with some impersonal, institutional colour, on someone else's property ... and so much of it is absolutely beautiful! Like this piece, on the side of a train car:



And below my sort of interpretation plus the individual pieces. Two of the individual pictur...

Dedicated to Japanese-Canadians



http://www.newdenver.ca/nikkei/

The Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre (NIMC) in New Denver is the only interpretive centre in Canada dedicated to the history of the uprooting and internment of over 22,000 Canadians of Japanese heritage. The centre, in New Denver, British Columbia, is situated on one of ten Canadian internment camp sites, which were located in the interior of BC during the Second World War. It is a project of the Kyowakai (...

Street photography is an area that I find fascinating, but I haven't had the courage to try it much at all.

This past week I was able to spend a few days in Seattle, and I thought I would try my hand just a little at street photography. I need to think a lot more about street photography, and learn bunches, but here are the results for now.

I had a project for this Summer, "BC Weeds and Wildflowers". I started working on this project in the Spring of 2007. The goal was to get to know and create beautiful images of all the common flowering plants (weeds, wildflowers, shrubs, trees) in British Columbia. There are many. Way too many. Last year my goal was to photograph/catalog 30 different flowers (goal reached and surpassed). This year (2008) my goal was to increase that number to 75 flowers identified, photographed, and c...

On Thursday (May 29) I got to spend 5 hours walking at the Creston Wildlife Management Area (http://www.crestonwildlife.ca/) close to Creston, BC (Canada). This is an area of marshes (wetlands) at the bottom end of Kootenay Lake, on the west side of Creston Valley. It's a great area for birding, and also for other wildlife viewing (elk, moose, deer, coyotes, muskrat, beaver and river otters).



I saw many birds, one moose, 3 river otters, and ... something else.

W...

I am finally getting around to organizing my images into galleries grouped by categories. So far I have 3 main categories:
- people pictures
- natural things
- man-made things
Most images in these galleries are published at OnExposure (the main site). A few are rejected images.

So far the gallery that seems to hang together best is "the B&W KITCHEN". I am attaching it to this journal entry, in part because I want to find out how this attaching of galleries works....