I'm honored and excited to have an image shortlisted for the 2014 Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year competition which will be exhibiting this summer at the Royal Geographical Society in London and around national forest venues across England. The photo selected is of a logged and burnt old-growth forest which I shot in January of this year in the Klanawa Valley, located in a remote region of southwestern Vancouver Island. Upon arriving there it truly looked like a scene from the end of the world - a lush green rainforest, now a barren and blackened landscape. I'm happy to know this image will now help bring attention to the world abroad about the ongoing destruction of British Columbia’s last endangered old-growth forests. Read more on the topic here.
Full Moon Rise - Cattle Point
Tonight's full moon rising through camas flowers at Cattle Point.
Defend Our Climate: March for an Oil-Free Coast!
It was great to join the thousands of citizens this past Saturday who were standing in solidarity against the destructive pipelines and tankers that threaten to devastate BC's coast with spills and further accelerate climate change. Here are a few of my photos from the rally that took place in Victoria during the National Day of Action, including the main group shot I took of the crowd.
Big Lonely Doug featured in Canadian Wildlife Magazine
Excited to see "Big Lonely Doug", Canada's second largest Douglas-fir, featured in the May/June 2014 issue of Canadian Wildlife Magazine. That's me standing beside it for scale! I had noticed the giant tree standing alone in an old-growth clearcut near Port Renfrew a couple of years ago but only recently, during a trip to officially measure it, was its record size revealed. Now it's famous, albeit still alone..
Big Lonely Doug dimensions:
- Height: 70.2 meters or 230 feet
- Circumference: 11.91 meters or 39 feet
- Diameter: 3.91 meters or 12.4 feet
- Canopy Spread: 18.33 meters or 60.1 feet
