The Butte, MT Power Grid
Power and its presence in the hundred years’ past boomtown of Butte, Montana.
Uptown spires / heights may not be as advertised.
Splitting the Hillside "M" of Montana Tech.
Headframe gateway atop "the richest hill on Earth".
Tangled supply chain.
A gentleman's bet. The spiral staircase races the mountaintop to the sky.
Electricity arrived early to the Copper King Mansion, one of Butte's 6000+ listed buildings that together form the largest National Historic Landmark District in the United States.
Implements of power at the intersection of Main and Broadway.
Mercury / heavy metal.
End of the line.
Power Wash overlooking the Berkeley Pit, a one-time open pit copper mine that is now the site of the largest Superfund clean-up in the country.
Electricity descending / electricity submerged.
Quarryscape dominance.
The Five Ring Circus: Maple Leaf Meltdown
Various angles on national pride during the last day of the XXI Winter Olympics.
Balcony patriotism.
Blue sky runs.
The outspoken fifth floor.
A message in red.
Maple leaf wrapper.
Siren / call to arms.
The lonely states.
The leaf breaks a smile.
Momentum.
Noise above the crowd.
Flag-swaddled.
View from the top.
Canted chaos.
Messiah.
Raise the flag.
Sound the bugle.
Impromptu street hockey games sprung up across downtown Vancouver through the Olympics.
Late night crowds at the epicentre of Robson and Granville streets.
The Five Ring Circus: Game Faces
Canada takes on the USA for Olympic Gold. Two kilometres from Canada Hockey Place at LiveCity Yaletown, 28 February 2010.
Full regalia.
Detail of a crowd.
Maple leaf array.
Canada celebrates a goal from Jonathan Toews 12:50 into the first period.
Canada takes a 2-0 lead with a second period goal from Corey Perry.
America comes back to narrow Canada's lead with a goal from Ryan Kesler.
America comes back to tie the game in the dying seconds, forcing overtime.
Tie game.
Crosby takes possession of the puck for Canada...
...shoots...
"Where were you when Canada won gold?"
Eruption.
Thrash.
Tears.
150,000 best friends.
Believe.
"Oh Canada..."
"...with glowing hearts..."
"...we stand on guard for thee..."
Steel City Scenic
Nine angles from an afternoon in Hamilton, Ontario, the flickering heart of Canada’s rust belt.
Bridge over beach, looking north.
Bridge over beach, looking south.
Smoke-wrapped pillars.
The ship at the end of the world.
“Don’t look into the light.”
Clarence, a seasonal welder from Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, readies his mask to relieve Tom.
Fossils consumption, regulation and burn-off.
Blizzard peekaboo.
Standing atop a range of tailing mounds, Will looks out over Hamilton’s industrial wastes.
10 Gallon Hats From $10.00
Five angles on the venerable cowboy hat from last July’s Calgary Stampede.
“Take yer partner…”
Overstocked.
Colour channels.
Brass machines. Previously published in the (x) Days of Photography flash fiction series.
Falling comrade.
Looking for a Landmark II
Wish upon a postcard.
The sun shines down on all buildings equally, no matter what they’ve done to deserve it.
Distortions.
Tower spire in fog.
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“They’ve Shut Down East Hastings”
Pedestrian xing.
Street press.
Neon stalwart.
Stilt pirouette.
Shadow patrol.
Protest smear.
A client enters Insite, North America’s first government-funded safe injection site. The facility has drawn the ire of many, being derided by the Bush administration as “state-assisted suicide” and repeatedly being threatened with closure by Canadian PM Stephen Harper. With five years’ operation behind it, Insite has seen no fatalities.
Buck-a-slice pizza.
Carnegie beat. Cops in front of the community centre.
Neon row.
Tungsten alley.
A Seattle Sunday
Attendance/capacity: 67,771/72,000
Thick-bodied.
Flying blind.
Bulbs.
united state(S OF A)merica
BRITISH (airways)
Eras.
Needles on the skyline. Which is the tallest?
Giant faces on the other side.
Bouquets in the half light.
Five fingers, no discount.
Fresh restrooms.
Golden one.
Corporate history.
Harbour ferry in negative space.
Silhouette pollution.
Attendance/capacity: 0/72,000
The Lonely Prairie
The lonely prairie.
Four cylinder carcasses.
Burnout.
Stainless steel.
Friends, still.
Potted plants.
Chlorophyll crown.
Tourists at a Tourist Attraction III
Elongated subject.
Leapfrog dare.
Six fingers.
Two times two.
Sneaker market.
Nuclear.
Awe. Cloud Gate, Chicago.
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Umbrella Fields
Nine angles on Victory Park in the moments leading up to and following 11:11am on 11/11/08.
Protected.
Poppy.
Watchtower over umbrella layers.
Life between layers.
Looking out over umbrella fields.
Towering shadows.
Drumming styles.
Pinched hats.
Wardrobe malfunction.
The Shops of Main Street
Exploring the shops and storefronts between Little India and Chinatown on Main, November 2008.
Autumn canopy. Main & 53rd.
Black market typeset. Main & 52nd.
Star sign. Main & 52nd.
Ten Digit Dialling. Main & 51st.
Fancy. Main & 50th.
Weatherproof. Main & 49th.
Former glory. Main & 48th.
Red alert. Main & 46th.
Getaway route. Main & 45th.
Bygone community centre. Main & 43rd.
Codes blue. Main & 41st.
Combo Deal. Main & 41st.
Shout out to the regulars. Main & 39th.
Eat in/take out/boarded up. Main & 37th.
Colourfast inks. Main & 35th.
Second floor sale. Main & 34th.
No cards accepted. Main & 33rd.
Past perfect. Main & 32nd.
No parking weekdays after 3pm. Main & 32nd.
Replacement bulbs. Main & 30th.
Drawn blinds. Main & 29th.
Colour geometrics. Main & 28th.
Flash flood. Main & King Edward.
Festive faces. Main & 22nd.
A (yellow) shade of green. Main & 20th.
Calling cards. Main & 19th.
Rusty pinky. Main & 18th.
Value. Main & 16th.
Fast Font. Main & 15th.
Mixed messages. Main & Broadway.
Geodesic domes. Main & 6th.
Angles of incline. Main & 5th.
Letter columns ABC / ABPCB. Main & 3rd.
Celebration banners. Main & 2nd.
Hemispheres. Main & 1st.
Co. Ltd. Seeds. Main & Industrial.
Pacific Central Station. Main & Terminal.
Girl. Main & National
Skyscraping text. Main & Keefer.
Leading lines. Main & Keefer.
Watchful characters. Main & Pender.
Team Colours
I don’t obscure these pages with issues-oriented coverage often, so when I do it’s nice to think the issues might count for something. Yesterday’s snap federal election, called five weeks earlier by Conservative PM Stephen Harper in a bid to convert his party’s minority hold on the House of Commons into a majority, was unfortunately not one of those issues.
$300 million dollars in spending and five weeks of media saturation later, and the make-up of the Commons looks much the same as it did after the previous federal election in 2006. Harper failed to win a convincing majority and I failed to photograph anything more than a dull smattering of signs and speeches.
Oh well. We’ll both have another shot in a couple years.
Conservative propaganda at party headquarters in Vancouver Centre.
Turf wars along Main Street.
Painters $14/hour.
CBC on site at a Liberal rally on the eve of the election.
Vantage point.
Viral voting.
Adrienne Carr, deputy leader of the federal Green party and MP candidate for Vancouver Centre, addresses a crowd of party faithful as the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge announces election results behind her. Despite garnering nearly 7% of the popular vote the Greens failed to win a seat in the 308-member Commons.
Word of mouth.
Polls open.
Liberal propaganda at party headquarters in Vancouver Centre.
Stephane Dion, leader of the federal Liberals, entertains a media circus.
Minimum voting age.
Dion speaks to supporters at a last minute Liberal rally held in a failed bid to win the battleground Richmond riding for incumbent Raymond Chan. The riding was one of seventeen new seats ceded to the Conservatives.
Dion raises a victory fist as incumbent Vancouver Centre MP Hedy Fry looks on.
Dion in the public eye.
Weapons of Mass Influence
The lips and podium microphone of federal Liberal leader Stephane Dion on the eve of Canada’s federal election.
The Fox in the Hole
Three angles on a fox cub, June 2008.
Stereo sound.
Sizing up the photographer.
At ease.
Panama Bound
Containers on a container ship at the Port of Vancouver, April 2008.