June 2021 – Faro, Beaver Creek and the Haines Pass
Putting the kilometres in with trips to Faro and Beaver Creek, and several more to the Haines Pass to search for wildlife and landscapes.
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May 2021 – Packrafts and Spring Melt
The heavy snowfall this past winter means snow is still on the ground in many places, but the spring thaw is definitely underway.
April 2021 – Yukon Swan Migration, Sony a1 and the First Light Image Festival
A busy month of photography festivals, testing my new Sony a1 camera and photographing Yukon wildlife as we finally start to thaw out from a long winter.
March 2021 – Spring Film Productions in the Yukon
March was filled with several exciting film productions, and some seasonal wildlife photography opportunities closer to home.
Feb 2021 – Chasing the Yukon Northern Lights
This month I spent much of my time chasing the incredible northern lights around the Yukon and was able to capture some of the best displays I have ever seen.
January 2021 – Winter in Dawson City and Tombstone
A winter visit to Dawson City and Tombstone Territorial Park to gather city scenes and beautiful landscapes.
Read My Guest Post About Continuity Backups at OWC
Other World Computing (OWC) recently asked me if I’d like to write a guest post on their blog. OWC make SSDs and memory for Macs, as well as RAID solutions and various USB and Thunderbolt docks. I’m an OWC customer myself (check out my recent OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock review), and have been for over a decade, so I took them up on the offer to reach their audience with some of my own experience as a creative professional. The topic I chose: Continuity Backups. If you don’t know what this phrase means, I think you need to read
New CBC Podcast Interview With Me – Listen Now!
I had a great time on the CBC Airplay show talking about photography with Mark Kelly, Alistair Maitland and Dave White. You can find it in all the usual podcast directories by searching for my name and “Airplay” or head here for iTunes and here for Google. You can also play it directly from the CBC website by clicking this link.
April’s B&H Giveaway Winner
At the beginning of April we began an exciting new series of giveaways for a $150 B&H Photo gift certificate every month! The winner at the end of April, chosen at random, was James C. Cambridge from Massachusetts. The Giveaway Continues! The giveaway is ongoing, so you can enter again this month and I’ll announce the next winner at the beginning of June. How to Enter Every person who clicks through to B&H using one of my links like this one, and then goes on to make a purchase, will be entered into the draw for the $150 gift certificate
Photo Contest: Your Chance to Win a Sony A7III Kit, A Nikon D5600 Kit, Flights + Much More
Since moving to the Yukon a few months ago I have become involved with the local Yukon photography festival, the First Light Image Festival which takes place on April 27th and I’m happy that Shutter Muse is a sponsor of this great event. In the run up to the festival, we’re running several photo contests and some of the prizes are incredible! For example, first prize in the Open Contest is a Sony A7III kit with a 28-70 kit lens, as well a PhotoRepublik Carbon Fibre Rundle Tripod, an F-Stop backpack and a $100 gift card for TheCameraStore. Of course
Huge News! Win $150 B&H Gift Certificate Every Month!
Find out how you can enter our new monthly giveaway to win a $150 gift certificate for B&H photo.
Heading South to Get Wet
Today I’m packing my bags to fly south to Vancouver from the Yukon. I’ll spend a couple of days running some errands around the city and catching up with some friends and then I’m taking a series of three different ferries to end up on Hornby Island where I’ll be freediving with sea lions for a few days. Hornby Island is a small island in the Straight of Georgia, between Vancouver Island and the British Columbian mainland. I have been making regular visits to Vancouver Island for a while now and it’s easily one of my favourite wildlife photography destinations.