This month, I want to feature two of my wife Aubrey’s favourite prairie birds, the American avocet and the black-necked stilt. Both of these handsome shorebirds are widespread and common on shallow sloughs and marshes throughout the prairies. The avocet (top) and stilt belong to a small family of elegant, […]
(Chasing Light Along the Atlantic) There are some places that seem made for photography. Places where every winding road, fishing village, and rugged coastline feels like a painting waiting to happen. Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island are exactly that kind of place that we visited a couple of years […]
In March, I featured the first of three postings I want to make from my recent trips to the Pantanal wetlands in central Brazil. This month I will focus on the birds, hopefully illustrating some of the fascinating biodiversity of this remarkable ecosystem. The pink blossoms are a colourful backdrop […]
With spring now in full force, there is a renewed sense of life and movement across Ontario—making it the perfect time to turn attention closer to home. Rather than looking far afield, I felt drawn to explore my own backyard, to rediscover the beauty that often goes unnoticed in familiar […]
By Espen Helland On 2nd of June 2025, my partner Naomi and I set off on our gravel bikes from Armona, west of Turin in Northern Italy, with a goal of reaching northern Norway by the end of July for our flight back to Scotland. Though time was of the […]
For the last couple of years, I have spent the month of August in the Pantanal wetlands of central Brazil. I first went to this remote area in South America in 1997 when I was on a scouting trip to determine if this little-known wilderness had any merit as a […]
Photo by Jacob Guy by Hope Cruz “The greatest images come when you stop chasing them and simply allow the moment to happen.” – Paul Nicklen Bella Zandoná is used to cold water. Antarctica is different. For a brief moment, everything feels exactly right. Bella looks out across the vast […]
Fox Kit – A few weeks old, photographed in Algonquin Provincial Park. 600mm lens, cropped. Secret location. Over the past couple of decades, I’ve logged more than a million kilometres internationally – working in private, public and corporate roles, often providing executive and travel protection for groups ranging from small […]
by Hope Cruz For five years, photographer and contributing editor Paul Papanek and his co-writer / wife Joan kept pitching the same idea to the editors of Cabo Living Magazine. It was a story centered on Lucha Libre—Mexican free wrestling—one that sat well outside the kinds of features the publication […]
Macaques have a very expressive face. This animal became frightened when a more dominant monkey arrived in the hot pool. This month I want to feature the last of the photos I took on the two trips I led to photograph the winter wildlife of Japan. Typically, people don’t expect […]
