Environmental photography and writing on the West Coast.
Until you have had a frazzled morning, forgotten your reusable cup, and bought a tea in a paper cup, have run to class, and received looks of askance from your fellow altruists, you may not fully understand the weight of superficial environmental guilt. Of course, my fellow students and I care deeply about our impact…
There is a certain gloom and colour in November days. The cold reaches through into your core and erupts in bouts of shivering. Naturally, shivering is not conducive to clear and steady landscapes so the trick is to time each shot for the moment of stillness after you exhale. Then you can warm yourself…
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir. Here in North America, our social ideology is often guided by ideas of distinction. The belief in separation or the ability to separate. We are somewhat obsessed with definitions of difference that show us…
Once upon a time, I went to Ucluelet with some friends on February reading break. I'd been to Tofino once before when I was quite young and all I remembered about it was the rain. I was about 11 and we were camping and I was generally unimpressed. This trip was a little different. It…
In order to care about something, to really care about its wellbeing, some emotional connection is necessary. We protect what we care about which is why images are so significant for the environmentalist movement. This world is amazing, and flat images will never measure up to breathing in salty air but they have their own…
The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal. - Camille Paglia
