birdhouse fun

these shots are just for fun. i was over at a friends place, saw this bird house, and asked him if i could come back with a camera. (moe said yes). it's a cool piece of folk art ( to my eye). lots of detail / can't be more than 2 feet and a bit high / wood pile..... gas barbie.... hanging plants... solar panel... i think a person would see something new every time you looked at it.

one room school house

i took a little drive south to my birth place today / northgate sk by name. i wanted to photograph the one room school house that is still standing there.

my sister attended for 5 grades or so, but the year my twin brother and i were to start grade 1, they shut her down. (humm. cause and effect)? so we moved to oxbow.

anyway, i had fun walking around the location, and this is an inside / out interpretation of the school. (i like the 'window' shot / click on to enlarge).

forget summer art festival, saskatchewan

this is my portrait of leroy / keyboard player for 'downwind'.

one more

i had to throw this one out as well / version 2 of tramp.

forget summer arts festival

i took a drive over to forget sk.this eve to check out the festival. typical prairie gathering... run into lots of folks you haven't seen for while / great weather and great atmosphere.

i knew that "tramp" was gonna be in the area, as he's the base guy for the local legendary group called 'downwind'. i spotted him before show time, and asked if he could reflect a little light for my camera. i like the result.

yellow brick road?

kennedy saskatchewan rodeo

this is my portrait of a rodeo competitor from hardisty alberta. his name is keifer, and as it's noted on his belt buckle, he is/was the 'canadian international rodeo association' (cira), season leader last year / saddle bronc. (man, i hope i got all that info right / if not i'll take correction).

anyway.. i watched him hammer thru a few 8 sec rides, and altho i think he made the whistle on the last one, he got thrown over the fence. these guys just get up, dust off, and head to the next town. i'll do a documentary some day.....

southern saskatchewan

it's finally starting to look a little bit like this.

disappearing grain elevators

i think this pioneer grain elevator SE. of regina sk is toast.

maligne lake alberta

anybody remember this technique? it's called polaroid transfer. i'm sure there is a photoshop filter that will do the trick now a days....

whitebear summer?

well, it's july 10th, and you'd think summer would have showed for a cup of coffee. (it's 10C today). this is a shot i did of my nephew at whitebear lake sask, back in the july days when there was no global warming............

jim & joe

or is that joe and jim? i don't usually post the 'family' stuff, but i like this one. jim (the guy), mentioned that maybe i should take a photograph of him and joe (the good looking one on the left), before one of them moved on to another world. this was a quick shot from the hip, but it may become a classic... so i post for the archives.. it's a nice moment in time (to my eye).

caterham lotus 7

took this shot last year for a friend. he works off shore on the oil rigs, (malaysia i believe), so i haven't seen him for awhile. we crossed paths the other day, and he joked that he hasn't seen the shot on my blog. so here it is. i asked clay the dentist to write the byline (he knows more car details than i).

clays' first attempt: "here's one we did a year or so ago as Neil B leans into a tight chicane with the legendary Caterham Lotus 7 open wheel British racing car built by himself !............ Vroom Vroom "

second attempt: so how's that?? too over the top I esp thought "chicane "was a nice use of words I did spell check it
Has a Jackie Stewart ring to it........

alright, i'll stick to the photography, and clay can keep on drillin' teeth. it's a swell looking ride tho..... ( the car that is). enjoy neil.

prairie storm photography

i think it was chris rock that was asking for some more lightning shots / so here's another multiple for fun.

big sky

its fun to live in a place where you can see the sky..

cowboy boots

tools of the trade.

cowboy

getting set to rope another calf..

prairie grid road

shot this while rolling home from last weeks roundup.

prairie storm photography

this is a multiple exposure shot of weather that passed through kenosee lake, saskatchewan the other night.

who is that masked man?

i had my friend and his best friend pose for a lighting test last night.

prairie cowboys / portrait

most of the days work was completed / time for a pop and a steak.

prairie cowboy portrait

i got down south today to photograph a branding/round up. this is a shot of barny, at the end of the day. i'll post a few more images tomorrow, and i hope to get back there next week for another gathering (camera in hand).

round up is a go

off to the south for a round up..... tomorrow. have camera, will travel. let's see if i can capture the 'spirit'. (this portrait was from about a year ago).

when you need some space

there are areas of the great plains that rule when you need some space.

canadian cowboy

golf kenosee, saskatchewan

i was lobbied to post this shot. not my favorite, but what the heck.

this is the clubhouse at golf kenosee in south east saskatchewan.

saskatchewan

my take on the evening sky...........

moose mountain provincial park, canada

short story long / i headed out of the bush to see if there were any weather photo 'ops'. i took a couple of right turns, and ended up in the back country with an epic rain/hail storm in progress (had my 4X4, the yaris would not have survived). i came across this, which i thought was a bizarre landscape. i will go back again and explore further.

living sky

my weather shot tonight from kenosee lake sk.

modern day barn raising

a bit of a crowd gathered to see a neighbors new house being moved in. a barn raising in spirit...

prairie cowboys

prairie post

this shot was taken about 15 minutes from where i make my summer home. from this image, its hard to believe i live in a forest.

big sky

my prairie eye

i went out on the land to see if there were any 'weather' photo ops / this is what caught my eye. i know its not what my good friend (ceo of sask chamber of commerce) might see, but ...........

stay tuned for a few more images tomorrow (fence posts and cattle/big sky).

saskatchewan roundup

ok, its time to get back out on the land and see these guys. i'm going to shoot a round up or two.

land of living skies

hummm, wondering if i made this print available at the vancouver winter olympics, would anyone be interested? maybe i could set up shop outside of the sylvia hotel, and hock my wares......

so a guy walks into a greenhouse

ok, there is a little story behind these 2 images (i posted the cloud shot about 1 year ago).

i went to the greenhouse in carlyle sask. the other day to get some bedding plants (given my gardening skills, they may have been dealt a death blow). i was telling the owner how i liked the space etc., and she told me that they had to re build after the "storm" from last year. turns out, that cloud and her wind pals did a prairie reno about 10 minutes after i took the photo.

as luck would have it, the greenhouse had just finished a spring sale, and closed early. so no one was injured.

northern saskatchewan

my shot of a float plane at sunrise / la ronge - northern sasktatchewan.

moose mountain provincial park, sk.

photographic proof that there once was water in kenosee lake, and i got out of bed before sunrise.

prairie recycling

prairie storm

well, it was obvious that since i had just painted my deck......... some weather would come in. so i grabbed the canon and fired up the yaris/went to the high ground. this is the result. (a little weak technically but.......... you know..... what i see and how i see it).

prairie cowboy portrait

this is a portrait of a fella named gordie. i was working on a portfolio project for my company web site awhile back / we were experimenting with a technique called cross processing (not cross dressing / that comes later in the career).

as i recall, we shoot color neg., and process E6, or shot trannie, and processed C41. anyways, some one out there will correct me, i'm sure. ( i had a staff back then). and so, in spite of photoshop.... pros have always done something for effect / mostly in the darkroom, and with matte knifes, or dye transfers , inks etc. etc.

for those that may not have seen my web site, click here. i'm getting geared up for a re-do / any suggestions??

a simple prairie post

prairie meadow

maybe these should be Saskatchewan's official flower??

prairie sunset

it finally felt like a spring/summer day at kenosee lake saskatchewan.

home on the range

i came across this cover shot i did for tourism saskatchewan awhile back. the fun part of this job was meeting the cowboys. i will be heading out their way in a month or so to photograph a round up. i shot a couple last year, and it is quite the adventure. my favorite shot was a portrait of Odin, which you can see by scrolling to the bottom of this blog.