Life Imitates Art

Marysville Falls can be found just minutes from downtown Kimberley, a small ski town nestled in the East Kootenays of BC, accessible via a narrow walking trail from the bridge in Marysville.

The Falls commence where Mark Creek, from its shallow valley, cascades into the canyon that flows downstream to the St. Mary River. Amazingly, the rocks that these waters constantly slowly erode are some of the oldest to be found in BC at 1.4 billion years old!

On a recent visit to Marysville, when the ice was just beginning to melt after a longer than usual winter, my goal was to create some images that had a surreal painterly feel.

Hopefully, you'll enjoy the result.

Impressions

The interaction of light, colour and shape, be it within the framing of distant landscapes or at the macro level of intimate staged environments, is a theme that seems to echo within my own collection of photographic expressions.

I actually get very excited when looking through the viewfinder to discover a visual pattern that promises to reveal much more than the actual subject material at hand! And often it can be just only one particular ray of sunlight or just the smallest, sparkling glimmer of water reflection, which can change the mundane into an almost spiritual experience.   

A few summers back, I was paddling on an almost still lake just after sunrise and the glow of the tips of the reeds enhanced by the rising warmth of the day seemed to perfectly frame the loon ahead, grooming itself and floating along in solitude. The moment was memorable.