burningMan 2006 - Centre Camp

burningMan is an annual arts festival that happens in the desert outside of Reno, Nevada during the last week of August. burningMan last for a week and when it is over there is no trace that the event actually occured, every scrap, every tiny bit that hits the ground is meticulously cleaned by volunteers and inspected by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management before the paperwork for the next year's event is approved.

burningMan's ethos is radical self-sufficiency, participants only, and leave no trace. Most of the 40,000 odd individuals that attend are in costume - burningMan is a cross between Halloween and the biggest tailgate party outside an art gallery you've ever attended. The music plays all day and all night for ten days. burningMan is not for the ill-equipped or faint of heart.

burningMan 2002 - Centre Camp

Centre Camp at burningMan is where a lot of participants shoose to sit out the desert heat of the day.

Kawacatoose First Nation old raindance

The Kawacatoose First Nation lies mid-way between Regina and Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada. Permission had to be granted in order to photograph the old raindance situated in a meadow off the main road running through the Reserve.

Norman Fournier is a Treaty Indian and member of the Kawacatoose First Nation.

Lil'wat Nation - Mt. Currie Stompin' Grounds Bandshell

Mt. Currie near Pemberton B.C. hosted the Stein Festival in 1985 at this bandshell.

Lil'wat Nation - Mt. Currie Rodeo Grounds

The Rodeo Grounds where the annual Mt. Currie Rodeo is held, next to the band shell, above.

Lions Gate Bridge - South East Tower

The Lions Gate Bridge was slated to be refurbished in the 1990s. In order to acquire Requests for Expression of Interest from qualified engineering firms the B.C. Transportation Financing Authority commissioned a website from Robert Kennedy of Infocom Management, our client.

The requirements of the RFEI suggested that QTVR would be ideal to give the engineers some idea of the state of the bridge and a number of QTVR locations were scouted and photographed. The most interesting spot was at the top of one of the towers that support the suspension cables. To reach the location a hair-raising climb up a ladder inside the tower was necessary.

There are guard rails allowing workers to safely walk around the platform that crosses between the towers but at the very top of the tower there is an area that is nearly completely exposed. This is where the photography was shot.

Mt. Cheam

Just outside of Chilliwack B.C. stands Mt. Cheam, 2104 m (6903 ft), a mountain spiritually important to the Sto:Lo Nation.

The hike to the summit used to take nearly 20 hours before forestry started to build roads into the backcountry. Today there is a road that stops a few hours short of the summit.

The hike takes about four or five hours and goes from meadows to stunted firs to high alpine above the treeline. Hikers have to carry their own water as there is none above the meadows.

Golden Ears

Golden Ears Provincial park lies just outside of Maple Ridge B.C. Mount Blanshard is more commonly known as Golden Ears, 1716 m (5630 ft), dominates the skyline from the Trans Canada Highway.

The hike to the summit and down takes a full day and crosses some intimidating terrain. It is easy to get lost when nearing the high alpine.

The summit view promises a spectacular vista but it includes an anti-climactic overlook of a straight-edge man-made lake.

Mt. Seymour

Mt. Seymour, 1449 m (4754 ft) is a popular North Vancouver ski hill during the winter and boasts a more definite wilderness feel as opposed to the more developed Grouse Mountain or Cypress Mountain.

The hike passes two false summits before reaching the actual "third bump" at 1449 m.

The summit view is spectacular vista band includes a view of Mt. Baker that gives an idea of how much bigger Baker is than the surrounding hills.