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  • I love how the geological rock formations rise to the occasion and display a singular birch tree amidst a collection of poplar tress.
    Thunder Bay_95A0735.tif
  • I wonder why nature has these trees always growing together in a cluster. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a solitary paper birch tree. Perhaps it’s because they have shallow roots. If they’re all close together, their roots intertwine, just as their branches do as they reach for the sky. There’s strength in that.
    Thunder Bay_IMG_2922c.tif
  • With this series of images I wanted to present, with the bare branches of winter’s birch tree, the mystery and certainty that comes with connectedness.
    CONNECTEDNESS: WHITE-BIRCH WINTER-RE...tif
  • The cold has left the trees no choice but to continue displaying bare branches. In particular, the white birch, of which there are many. With the sky as a backdrop their long, slender branches sway in the wind as they reach out in search of light.
    CONNECTEDNESS: WHITE-BIRCH WINTER-RE...tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0437c.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0416a.tif
  • One can only imagine how this scene appeared hundreds of years ago. The visible layers of rock, probably laying flat, may have been hidden from view under the Earth’s surface. Mother Nature realigned the rock over time, pushing it up to the angle where it now sits. <br />
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When surrounded by rock as far as the eye can see, it’s easy to overlook story before one’s eyes. I love the vast expanse of geological rock under my feet when exploring the area. There is a multitude of colour, life, shape, sound and texture. After a heavy rain fall, the smell of the surrounding forest is unmistakable.<br />
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Part of the Canadian Shield, Cascades Conservation Area is but a sliver of the 8 million square km (3 million square miles) of rock spread over eastern, central, and northwestern Canada into the U.S.A.<br />
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Cascades is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0419b.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0398a.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0407b.tif
  • A storm was brewing when I photographed this scene. I made it back to the car before the downpour.<br />
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I love the vast expanse of geological rock under my feet when exploring the area. There is much to discover.<br />
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When visiting, be sure it hasn’t recently rained. The rock can be very slippery when wet, which can be very dangerous if you’re close to the edge of the Current River rapids.<br />
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Part of the Canadian Shield, Cascades is but a sliver of the 8 million square km (3 million square miles) of rock spread over eastern, central, and northwestern Canada into the U.S.A.<br />
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Cascades is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0417b.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0432b.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0411a.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0460c.tif
  • The Paper White Birch Tree sprouted its greenery in only two weeks. Winter was very long 2021-22. Once it departed, spring arrived with what could be described as a beautiful vengeance.
    Thunder Bay_95A0768.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0485c.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0479c.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0458c.tif
  • Hiking along Thunder Bay's Centennial Park. This part of the winding trail features bare, tall-standing birch trees. Captured early May, the trail is often isolated long enough to  enjoy a serene and still scene.
    Thunder Bay_IMG_2921c.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0418b.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0468c.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0391.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0477c.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0466c.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0392.tif
  • I chose to replace nature’s winter-grey sky with red. The colour red is associated with passion of all kinds. From love to anger, for example. Where there is passion, there is potential for change.
    CONNECTEDNESS: WHITE-BIRCH WINTER-RE...tif
  • Thunder Bay, Mother Nature and relationships were the catalyst for this new series of conceptual photography. An unusual mix!<br />
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Winter has been long this year. It’s April 7th, and Thunder Bay had another big snowfall yesterday. I’m longing for warmer weather.
    CONNECTEDNESS: WHITE-BIRCH WINTER-RE...tif
  • Shot in high resolution to capture an abundance of detail, each photograph in this series is framed as captured in camera. With a bit of post-production magic the series came together.
    CONNECTEDNESS: WHITE-BIRCH WINTER-RE...tif
  • Perhaps, if we use Mother Nature as the example, it’s simply her way of reminding us the life of anything is cyclical. Things come to an end. Sometimes they sprout up again fresh and renewed; more beautiful than ever. Sometimes they reappear in a different form, stronger or weaker than before. Point being, the potential for growth and change is unlimited.<br />
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In this final image of the series, tree branches fill the frame. They’re the same branches viewed in the first image, but they’re closer; their intertwining and connectedness has taken different shape. How the viewer will see them will change because of this evolution. Perhaps one will see beauty or mystery. Another may see strength or aggression. What do you see?
    CONNECTEDNESS: WHITE-BIRCH WINTER-RE...tif
  • When I walk out to Thunder Bay’s Cascades Conservation Area, I’m taken by the millions of years of story under my hiking shoes. The complex geological rock formations speak to a chapter of history in every direction.<br />
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To my senses, it’s the Disneyland of shape, colour, texture, sound, movement, and story. It’s really a magical paradise, not of Walt’s design, but of Mother Nature.<br />
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It’s simply beautiful. <br />
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In this rather stark rock formation photograph, multiple hues of brown are everywhere. If you look closely you’ll witness erosion, rock depression, water, life, time and different types of rock. In upcoming photographs I’ll share a multitude of colour.<br />
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Three hours of shooting feels like three minutes… until I realize I’m fatigued and thirsty from photographing in the afternoon summer sun.<br />
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Part of the Canadian Shield, Cascades is but a sliver of the 8 million square km (3 million square miles) of rock spread over eastern, central, and northwestern Canada into the U.S.A.
    Thunder Bay_95A0486c_DxOVP.tif
  • The Current River surrounded by geological rock formations and the poplar / birch tree forest.
    Cascades_95A0628_BW_V2.tif
  • The Current River surrounded by geological rock formations and the poplar / birch tree forest.
    Cascades_95A0628a.tiff
  • While walking back to my car after wrapping this shoot, the top of the poplar trees were dancing in the wind. With just the right amount of wind the sound closely resembled that of the rushing rapids I had just left behind. This type of symbiotic synchronicity is something I often see around me. <br />
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There is much colour, reflection and movement in this image that I love. Produced as a single capture (i.e., no photo stacking etc), the challenge in creating this type of image is ensuring what is important is in focus while still allowing for movement. Sunlight was popping in and out of the clouds, and bouncing off the water’s slowly swirling surface. Captured with a shutter of 1.3s allowed for just a bit of blur where I felt it worked best.<br />
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Cascades is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_95A0456a.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_IMG_3071a.tif
  • Part of the Canadian Shield, Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is but a sliver of the 8 million square km (3 million square miles) of rock spread over eastern, central, and northwestern Canada into the U.S.A.<br />
<br />
Cascades Conservation Area is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_IMG_3283.tif
  • The Current River surrounded by geological rock formations and the poplar / birch tree forest.
    Cascades_95A0628_BW.tif
  • Cascades Conservation Area (Thunder Bay, ON) is a great choice for a quiet hike in the beautiful poplar and birch forest. Two highlights for many people is the spectacular rapids along the Current River and the various geological formations in the area.
    Thunder Bay_IMG_3072a.tif