This portrait led off a feature on Victoria area coroners. Barb is a former Vancouver Province reporter.
Coroner Portrait – Barb McLintock
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First Nations’ Art Unveiled
It always amazes me how often that you’ll get a run of assigments that are connected. This past weekend the photographer working ended up at two events where there were dogs wearing sunglasses. Last Thursday and Friday I had an assignment each day that was centred around First Nations art. Thursday was the official unveiling of the Darlene Gait/Butch Dick designed murals on the Ogden …
Photographing Totem Poles
Morning sun on the totem poles at Thunderbird Park in Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island.
Model Airplane Airshow
Every year the Victoria Radio Control Modelers Society puts on the Largest Little Airshow to raise funds for local charities. It’s a challenge to shoot the small fast aircraft in flight and it’s a lot of fun to photograph the contestants and their planes.
World Naked Bike Ride – Victoria
The annual World Naked Bike Ride, an event with rides in cities around the world, was celebrated in Victoria with a ride that left from the provincial Legislature building, went past the historic Empress Hotel and through downtown. A Legislature worker keeps her head down as she walks past riders getting ready One rider snaps a photo of another before the start of the ride …
Mural Painter
Local musicians get the larger than life treatment from mural painter Ian George on the outside walls of Logan’s Pub on Quadra Street. The mural is a homage to local musicians who participate on a regular basis in the weekly open stage that is held every Sunday from 4-7.
Remembering Winston Churchill
Writer Chris Gainor stands in as the late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at an annual ceremony to remember the politician Sunday afternoon. A group, heavily dressed against a cold wind, gathered around a hawthorn tree planted by Churchill in Beacon Hill Park on a visit to Victoria in 1929, listened to few speeches, received Churchill related books and memorabilia in a draw and then …
Remembrance Day
The CBC was just announcing that we were coming up to 11 AM and the observance of Remembrance Day as I pulled up to park at Goldstream Park this morning. As I stood on the riverbank in the rain looking at the grey bodies of salmon it was hardly a stretch to make a connection to the bodies of men on the fields of Europe. …
Full Moon Rises Over Fisgard Lighthouse
A full moon rises over the historic Fisgard Lighthouse in a view from the Esquimalt Lagoon.