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Spot the photographer. Dad, husband, chaser of Aurora, teacher, lover of BBQ, nature, and the city I call home. DM for photographic inquiries or to send me beer

Calgary, Alberta
Joined May 2010
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3 years
Palate cleanser. I call it 'Collision'. I waited in this spot in the ditch along Highway 9 just north of Irricana, Alberta hoping all these amazing elements would come together.
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1 year
One of the brightest Aurora I've ever seen. It lit up the land around me. Canmore, Alberta. #Aurora
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1 year
9:58 PM in Canmore. I was the only one there to see this. The setting moon and the dusky sky were just bonus. #aurora #canmore #HauLing
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7 years
The good edits of my #SuperBlueBloodMoon photos from the Bow Valley near Canmore, Alberta.
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1 year
North South East West #Aurora
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4 years
Fuck you Jason Kenney. I couldn’t go to fucking Douglasdale from Marda Loop to see my Mom and Dad, but fucking fucking Hawaii is fine. Fuck you fuck you fuck you. Fuck. Dammit 2021!!!! Dammit!!!
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4 years
There are only a couple times in my career that I think ‘I can’t believe I made that photo’ This is one. Still puts me in awe of the scene. Taken a couple years ago at 3 Valley Gap, BC.
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3 years
Palate cleanser Rule of Thirds. Cypress Hills, Alberta (looking over into Saskatchewan. Dawn.
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3 years
Covid isn’t over, it’s just being privatized in Alberta.
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7 years
The #Snowmoon rising over Calgary. #yyc
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3 years
I'm shook
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6 years
My final shot of my 2018 #CPHolidayTrain chase! I turned around and headed home from here. It was a good week. Thanks for following along!
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3 years
Of all the moments I've had, this is one of them. April 16, 2021, 11:40pm, East of Calgary. #aurora #explorealberta
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3 years
So many abandoned buildings in downtown Edmonton. Sad.
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3 months
It wasn't a great 'by-eye' show. But it might have been the best 'in-camera' show. #Aurora
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5 years
People ask me why I spend most of my leisure time on the prairies. because.
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3 years
Well now. Calgary looks nice under a super pink moon. #pinkmoon #supermoon2021 #supermoon #YYC #westjet
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4 years
My friend @iceTyyc made this timelapse of the storm over Chestermere Lake. #abstorm
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4 years
It was one of those mornings that if you didn't see it with your own eyes, you don't believe it. I was lucky to be on a roof shooting a project for @UDistrictYYC this morn. (tbh tho, we pick this time of the day, just in case the morning is spectac!) #YYC
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3 years
I accidentally went to Banff this morning.
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2 years
The #CPHolidayTrain at Surprise Creek, BC.
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1 year
So much sadness here.
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5 years
The Cliffs at Radium Hot Springs, B.C. #CPHolidayTrain . The very last photo of my 2019 train chase! Please, if you liked following along, donate to your local food bank!
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1 year
Looking South over Hau Ling Peak. #aurora
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5 years
Pretty cool, Lethbridge! #CPHolidayTrain
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2 years
The #CPHolidayTrain in Banff this evening.
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3 years
30 minutes earlier, the sun had just set, the moon was following it down, the Aurora was dancing, and the lightning was just getting started.
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1 year
Is this the prettiest #aurora I've ever seen? Yes, yes it probably is. Southern Alberta, March 24, 2023 @global_leslie @CBCCalgary @CTVdavidspence
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4 years
Calgary. I'm doing porch portraits! Sat from noon-3:00pm. I come to you, use a long lens and yay! 10 spots available. Free if you are in tough right now. I'm just hoping to spread some cheer! Sign up here:
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4 years
Haha, I was photographing a family in Haysboro when I turned around and spotted this amazing fuzzy peanut gallery watching us from across the street. #Porchraits
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3 years
Can we do a provincial election tonight too?
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3 years
604 image timelapse video of a train going through Morant's Curve in Banff National Park. Approx midnight.
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4 years
Some standout #Porchraits moments today. My heart is full, #YYC ! What joy!!
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4 years
Driving home across the causeway tonight, I had to go back and get this photo. The meltwater on top of the reservoir ice made beautiful reflections of the new Glenmore Dam lighting.
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7 years
You are my headquarters, Calgary. #myHQyyc
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5 years
Holy wow. Pics snapped in Springbank, Calgary at 3:00am Aug 5. #aurora #yyc
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The CPKC Holiday Train passing through downtown Calgary tonight.
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3 years
@paulbrandt If you are choosing to not get vaccinated with mRNA covid vaccines, you are, in fact, an antivaxxer. Get vaccinated. For everyone.
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5 years
Just. Just so much fun!! #HunterMoon #Alberta
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8 years
Woohoo! Huge meteor photo bombs my #Aurora photo just now? 12:30am Sept 1. From central Alberta.
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3 years
Just the moon again. Move along. #yyc
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5 years
Lovely look at the @CPHolidayTrain crossing the Bow River in Calgary. #CPHolidayTrain
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6 years
Downtown #YYC is going to be a mess in a couple hours. It’s a beautiful beast right now. 4:44am #yycsnowday #yycsnow #abstorm
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3 years
Emerald Lake and a Meteor
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4 years
The storm near Chestermere seen from Shaganappi Point.
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3 years
Palate cleanser My family, doing their part.
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4 years
Waiting outside the home of a #porchraits client, I spot this bunny frozen into the ice on the road. While I'm photographing the family, I mention this bunny. Turns out they lost it a few months ago... and have returned it (cleaned) to its rightful place in their kid's arms! Yay!
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Emerald Lake, BC. Dec 16, 2022.
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5 years
Well that was intense!! #yyc #abstorm 5am Marda Loop
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5 years
These photos were all taken within a 100-foot diameter of each other, within 3 minutes. Near Wrentham, Alberta.
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3 years
Spot the Snowy Owl.
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3 years
Sad times. This is the most interesting Pug in the world’s last day. We made the heartbreaking decision to let him go. We have a few hours left with him for cuddles, tears, McNuggets and curly fries. 15 1/2 years is a long time, but not nearly long enough. #kenickie
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3 years
Intense! #YYC is getting a h*ckuva #aurora show! #MardaLoop
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3 years
I mean, once you’ve photographed one Chinese rocket body burning up during uncontrolled atmospheric re-entry, you photographed them all, right?
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4 years
I'm shaking. It's done, it's done, it's done. I might be crying. 15,000 words, 650+ photos, 385 families, 352 pages. 38 days working, 5000kms driven, 600+porches, 75,000 shutter clicks. One @Glenbow Gallery And now a book.
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7 years
The Black Rainbow was 'overshadowed' by the crazy storm clouds Friday eve near Morrin, AB. 05/20. #Abstorm #StormHour
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5 years
Holy fork! Lightning looking west toward Calgary from just south of Langdon. July 7.
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4 years
When your #porchraits client has a three week old baby but lives on the 2nd floor. #cameraonastick
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3 years
We’re downloading a piece of paper to allow us to go for a beer with friends. Alberta Children’s Hospital is closing 75% of its surgical capacity in response to a the Level 4 Pandemic situation. Maintain your perspective people. Be thankful you aren’t sick, be safe.
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5 years
My family helping this big ol’ #harvestmoon over the horizon this eve! Thanks @Traci_Zee @DzellDave @nanandz and son Andrew!! What a fun moment!
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6 years
Harvest Moon over Southern Alberta! Almost done #Harvest18 ! #longlovethisland #harvestmoon #alberta
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1 year
iPhone 11 photo.
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9 months
A beautiful evening under the Aurora in Mossleigh, Alberta. #Aurora Nov 5-23
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3 years
Castle Mountain is the best mountain. I will not be taking questions.
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4 years
Congrats Karen and James! It was an honour to photograph your wedding. Plans changed due to a global pandemic, but you made up for it with a beautiful wedding here in Calgary! The #fullmoon was the good karma win that you deserved!
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2 years
Saskatchewan Sandhills Milky Way photo trip is going great.
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6 years
Ok, I am chasing the #CPHolidayTrain for the next two days. Let's hope I get some good shots!
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6 years
Movies, Milkyway and Millions and Millions of Stars! We saw #Jurassic World at the Clearwater Drive-In near Kyle, SK last night! Brought all the childhood memories back. #DriveIn #MilkyWay
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7 years
Whoa. We just spotted this amazing and rare Silver Cross Fox. Most beautiful animal I've seen. Incredible.
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4 years
i. can't. even. ANILA!!! This is the most badass of all the #porchraits ever.
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4 years
Someone who fought in WWII, at 18 years old in 1945, survived, lived his life, is now 93 years old, at risk for COVID-19, maybe died from it and people look at death #'s and say, oh, it was an old person, way above life expectancy. These are people - family. Not numbers.
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4 years
Some nights are more interesting than others. #cometNEOWISE #YYC
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6 years
Oh my. I love this train!!! #capturethespirit #yyc
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3 months
Holy shit.
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3 years
I. am. so. freaking. happy. Meet our new little girl!!!!!!!
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5 years
I can confirm: the #Aurora360 flight out of #Whitehorse was truly magical. What an incredible night. #Aurora
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5 years
Things I saw today in Southern Alberta
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1 year
My last Moraine Lake tour until the fall was a great one! We were there to photograph the Milky Way; it was a perfect night! #MoraineLake #Banff #MilkyWay
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5 years
My favorite lady of the canola this year!
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6 years
Truth in Advertising.
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4 years
Calgary. You are a sexy beast. Even in the cold. #YYC #sexybeast
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6 years
Peacebridge! Those reflections right now... wow.
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5 years
Surreal field of straw bales near Kathryn, AB. Stopped me in my tracks.
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The crack of dawn along the Alaska Highway (10:00 am) between Whitehorse and Haines Junction last Tuesday. #YukonLight
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4 years
Spot the moon.
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7 years
'Holiday Train in Calgary'. My 2017 Holiday Train prints are for sale at . As always 25% of every sale is donated to Canada Food Banks.
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4 years
Just got to get this out before 2021. Fuck your life expectancy arguments Fuck your comorbidity arguments Fuck your anti masking bullshit arguments. Unfollow or block me of you feel offended or argumentative about this, please. There. Bring on 2021.
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6 years
Such a beautiful sunset over Calgary tonight!
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4 years
The last full moon of the decade that was 2020. #YYC #FullMoon #ColdMoon
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4 years
It’s for real! We open today! My amazing family got to see the show early, and I can’t thank them enough for their incredible support. Everything I do is in consideration of these people. #porchraits
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Spot the Deer.
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1 year
Moraine Lake being very Moraine Lake today. #Banff #MoraineLake
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1 year
Moraine Lake this morning for Sunrise.
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3 years
He’s gone. Thank you for all your kind, loving words. We appreciate it. We’re heartbroken, he was the just the sweetest boy.
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3 years
Sad times. This is the most interesting Pug in the world’s last day. We made the heartbreaking decision to let him go. We have a few hours left with him for cuddles, tears, McNuggets and curly fries. 15 1/2 years is a long time, but not nearly long enough. #kenickie
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