Month: December 2011

Wet for Charity

You have to love university students, raising money for charity with a dunk tank in December, even on the west coast it’s cold when you hit the water.

Salmon Triumph Followed By Tragedy

This photo was taken two weeks ago along Colquitz Creek. The youngsters were being shown a large spawned out male Coho salmon. The volunteers at the creek were ecstatic. They’d been seeing the largest returns of spawning salmon in years. Later that afternoon, an oil spill occurred sending the fluid into the creek.  The salmon have disappeared and attempts continue to try and clean the …

Photography Courses at the University of Victoria

I’ll be teaching two courses for UVic Continuing Studies in the new year. Introduction to Community Newspaper Photojournalism This course is for photographers considering a career in photojournalism, bloggers who want to improve the visual content of their sites and for the photographer who wants to explore new avenues of creativity. Participants will study the five main types of photo assignment for the community photojournalist: …