Remembering Dawn

This week's local paper in the Canadian Rockies was awash with bad news for our struggling wildlife: a rare female wolverine killed on Highway 93S in Kootenay National Park, a young male grizzly bear run over at night on Highway 68 in Kananaskis Country, an adult male black bear shot in downtown Canmore, and a young black bear hit by a train in Yoho National Park.

Perhaps fitting, then, that today marks the first anniversary of the magical morning that wildlife photographer Cai Priestley and I spent with a female grizzly bear and her two yearling cubs in a late spring snowfall one year ago near Lake Louise.  Less than 48 hours later, Dawn, the mother grizzly, was dead, hit by a Canadian Pacific train only a few kilometers from where Cai and I had photographed her, leaving her tiny cubs to fend for themselves in a landscape rife with hazards.

Dawn with her two cubs on May 27th, 2011 near Lake Louise in Banff National Park

I would like to think that her death was not in vain; after all, the incident got press all over the world and led to major news programs like CBC's The National covering the story and discussing concerns with the section of Canadian Pacific track that knifes through the heart of Banff National Park.  Dawn's photo graced the cover of national magazines like Canadian Geographic and the controversy over her death eventually led in part to a number of research studies that began this spring to address the issue of bear-wildlife-train conflicts in Canada's first national park.

Dawn playing with one of her cubs

On a more personal level, Cai and I launched a Facebook group, Save Banff's Wildlife, to keep interested parties up to speed on the fight to keep our mountain national parks a refuge for wildlife rather than a sinkhole. We were both really encouraged to see the response and felt like we were getting somewhere with our conservation efforts.

Yet when we have weeks like last week where wildlife carnage seems to be the order of the day in our Rocky Mountain national parks, it quickly seems as if nothing's changed.  Dawn is dead, and other animals continue to follow in her footsteps at an alarming rate. I begin to question myself, as do my friends and colleagues, wondering if we're actually making any difference at all.

But then, last night, a ray of hope emerged from the shadows. A text arrived from a Parks' friend.  It was short and sweet, saying simply, "They're alive!"

And just like that, I remembered Dawn and I remembered exactly what I'm fighting for -- two young, beautiful cubs.

Dawn's cubs have survived the winter.  Now let's hope they can navigate the coming summer.

Happy shooting everyone.

John

First Word from the Khutzeymateen

Ok, so technically, this blog post is more about the drive to the Khutzeymateen rather than my time in the Khutz.  In fact, it's about my incredibly serendipitous first-and-only encounter ever with a mainland white kermode bear! 

I know it's hard for most of you to believe that the guy who's posted wild wolf, wolverine, lynx and cougar shots over the past few years could possibly find something as dull as a white black bear, but I figured I'd start off my Khutzeymateen stories with a pic or two of a spirit bear versus a boatload of pics of grizzlies doing boring stuff like fighting and mating.  Hope you're all ok with that....

When I left for my trip to the Khutzeymateen on May 5th, I purposefully scheduled in three days before my boat trip to explore the Smithers/Terrace/Stewart/Prince Rupert/Kitimat area in north-central British Columbia (a vast swath of wilderness interrupted by the occasional logging road or rural small town) to search for my first mainland kermode bear.  I quickly discovered that it's not quite like going on my Spirit Bear Photography Tour in the Great Bear Rainforest, where often, one simply shows up and waits until a white bear appears.  That trip costs big bucks because of the probability that you will be able to find a white bear; one in every five to ten black bears there is white, thanks to a double recessive gene -- by contrast, exploring the area I was in on the mainland is much more of a crapshoot, where only one in forty or fifty is white.

So the question became, could I find the forty to fifty black bears that would give me the odds of finding one that was white? 

The first few days didn't look good.  Just eight bears, all black. I couldn't even track down any good rumours of white bears, let alone sightings. A few people had seen one "in 2006" or "three years ago down that logging road," but no one had spotted one in the Spring of 2012.

I determined that part of the problem was that these bears were wild, really wild.  Where bears back home in the Rockies often saunter out to the roadsides and have a good feed while a rodeo circus evolves on the pavement beside them, the black bears I was seeing were taking off like a man on fire ever time a vehicle came along.  It wasn't just a casual stroll back into the woods, but rather a panicked fleeing befitting an animal that gets hunted regularly in this part of Canada.

As such, I had just about given up by my third day of searching.  I had decided it was time to head to Prince Rupert to get on with the Khutzeymateen trip, but convinced myself to take one last drive before hitting the pavement again.  And of course, that's when the magic happened.

Driving down a bumpy logging road in the middle of nowhere, I caught a glimpse of something white-ish over a little hill.  I slowed down as quickly and quietly as I could and glanced back.

To my astonishment, a beautiful white bear stood there on a small grassy knoll staring intently at me as if getting ready to run.  In a second I had my lens out of my sunroof and was twisted into position like a pretzel, "Tffttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!" My motor drive banged off quick nine shots in a second and a half, before 'POOF!', the bear vanished down the hill into the forest.

A white kermode bear eyes me warily seconds before disappearing into the forest down the hill

I sat there for a minute, still not even sure I'd just seen what I'd seen. Had that been a kermode, a white bear?  And had I captured it in that flurry of action?  The back of my camera answered both questions for me; it had indeed been a white bear, and I'd definitely nailed the shot!  I had a wave of exhilaration go over me, followed by about fifty whoa-I-can't-believe-that's.

For the next few hours I drove and hiked back in forth in the area hoping for another glimpse, while also somewhat reluctantly acknowledging that my presence there was probably stopping the bear from feeding roadside on the only fresh greenery in the area.  Long before the hours of golden light, I left the area so the bear could feed again.

I didn't return to that spot until after my Khutzeymateen trip concluded on the morning of the 16th.  I scoured that road up and down and sideways, but could find no trace of my beautiful white bear.  I did find a whopping 53 different black bears over the course of four days, but never did see another kermode.

In honour of a special friend of mine that's battling cancer right now, I've decided that I am going to auction off a signed 16x24 unframed print of this white bear image to the highest bidder to help raise funds for him.  If you're interested in bidding, please visit the auction site on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LarryRenshawLarrysLoveLounge If you're not a member of Facebook, yet want to bid on the photo, you can still look at all of the items up for bid and email the auction privately at larryslovelounge@gmail.com to put in a bid.  Bidding currently concludes tomorrow (Friday) at 5 pm MST, though there is a chance we'll be extending it to Monday evening due to the recent surge of donations and bidding activity.

I've also donated a full day in the field with me as a bidding item.  Just you and me, one-on-one, in the field in Banff looking for creatures and scenics from dawn to dusk.  What's that worth to you?  You can check it out here for more details.  And there are a ton of other great items up for bid, including ski passes for Panorama in BC, a golf package in Canmore, handmade furniture, greeting cards, coffee table books, yoga packages, and 90+ more items!

Stay tuned for more Khutzeymateen photos in the days to come and thank you to everyone for all of your support over the years, I really appreciate it.

Happy shooting!

John

Khutz update from the field

Quick update from a rainy Prince Rupert on Day 1 of the Khutzeymateen grizzly bear photo tour.  Saw 8 bears, a wolf, 2 coyotes and a pine marten on the drive out to PR, including one glorious, albeit brief, encounter with a kermode bear north of Terrace!  Pics to come in a week or two when I return.

Wish us luck, I'll be back in touch again on the 16th or 17th.

Cheers,

John

In Search of Bears!

Just a quick post to let you all know that you can follow my progress this week and next as I head northwest towards Prince Rupert and then into the Khutzeymateen, as I'll have my SPOT tracker on the entire time. I'm in Salmon Arm tonight and then am off at 5 am Sunday morning in my search for bears.  For the first few days I'll be searching for kermode (spirit) bears just east of Prince Rupert, and Wednesday it's on to the Khutzeymateen aboard the Ocean Light II. Wish me luck!

Happy shooting!

John

High Adventure in the Bugaboos!

Spring has sprung and with the advent of green grass and new leaves, I've been far from my computer most days in search of wild beasts all over the countryside.  In fact, tomorrow, I leave for my much anticipated inaugural journey to the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Reserve for my first photo tour of 2012. I'm going to take my time getting up there, though, and search for black bears (and kermodes) along the way.  Sound like a tough life?  Ha-ha, maybe not for the next few weeks....

For those of you interested in future trips to the Khutzeymateen, I do have dates already for next year's trip, however, I am going to wait until my return from BC in late May before I post them. Please contact me if you're interested in a spot on that trip (for those of you that have never been on one of my tours or workshops, note that first priority is always given to previous clients).

Speaking of workshops, I only have one spot remaining on my 2012 heli-hiking nature photography workshop with CMH Summer Adventures in the Bugaboos in August.

British Columbia Magazine features a wonderful article by staffer Shanna Baker in their current issue that talks all about the 2011 workshop, which Shanna participated in.  It's a great read that starts on page 34 and continues for a whopping nine pages, with some great descriptions of what you can expect on the workshop.

Shanna's beautiful photo of  Anniversary Peak, Bugaboo Glacier, and Houndstooth Spire graces the cover

The cover was shot on our 'sunrise shoot' one morning -- we got picked up by a helicopter in the dark at the lodge and whisked away to the top of a nearby ridge to await the golden hour!  As I said already, there is one spot remaining, so if being treated like royalty and learning some amazing photo tips sounds good to you, then snag that final spot!

Happy shooting!

John

News and Notes for April 2012

And just like that, the hibernating bear (aka me) reappears with the first vestiges of spring to bring you a new blog entry full of juicy publication details and a call to all who want to get in on a workshop or tour before it's too late for 2012.

I'll start with my most exciting news: after 15 years in the biz, I've finally had an image published by BBC Wildlife magazine!  This is equal parts amazing in that a) I've never submitted anything to them, so they sought me out for this image, and b) the image they've chosen to publish is one of just five remaining in my collection from the very first year I started photographing in earnest...way back in 1994!  This black bear in dandelions is one of my original greeting cards and is the cover of one of my books, Central Rockies Mammals. In fact, for an image that was taken with an old Canon AE-2 film camera and a 300mm f4 lens (long before I could afford a big telephoto), it's done quite well for me over the past decade and a half, grossing more than $20,000 in sales.

This image of a black bear in dandelions is in the next issue of BBC Wildlife magazine

I've also got this month's cover of Canadian Wildlife magazine, featuring an image of two wild swift fox pups from southern Saskatchewan.  In fact, the current issue has four of my photos in it, while the next issue will also feature four of my shots, including several orca pictures from this past summer's trip to Johnstone Strait off Vancouver Island.  Btw, for those of you that love wildlife, I'd highly recommend subscribing to Canadian Wildlife, it's a great magazine.

A lo-res version of this month's Canadian Wildlife magazine cover

On the contest front, I'm excited to report that I once again have a finalist in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, the most prestigious wildlife photography competition in the world.  I had two finalists last year, but just one this year around, so wish me luck!

And finally, for those of you hoping to take a wildlife photography workshop or tour with me in 2012, there are only a few opportunities left.  Seven of my nine workshops and tours are already sold out, but there are still two openings in my CMH Heli-Hiking Nature Photography Workshop in early August and there may be an opening coming available in my first polar bear photo tour in early November (check out photos from my polar bear scouting trip this past November).

Photographing Vowell Glacier in the Bugaboos on my 2010 Heli-hiking photography workshop

I'm also strongly considering adding a Jasper wildlife photography workshop at the end of October to my tour and workshop itinerary, so please contact me if you'd be interested in attending this.

I think that's about it for news and notes for now.  I'm laid up for a few weeks with tendon damage in my right foot and hobbling about in a lovely air boot for a while, so I doubt I'll be getting out much to test out my new Canon 5D Mark III camera body.  So for those of you that are out shooting, good luck!


John

More Snowy Owls - Part II

Wildlife photographers often hope for a number of things: there's the obvious, like good light, good fortune, and good company; and the not-so-obvious, like having a Tim Horton's just a few kilometers away from the scene of the owls and getting good advice from the locals.

Long before I had even arrived in Vancouver, as-yet-unmet acquaintances like Jamie Douglas and Tony Dathan were filling my ears with places to go (thanks guys!).  And better still, a large part of the appeal in heading to Vancouver to photograph the snowy owl irruption was the knowledge that I'd get to photograph snowies with some of 'the old gang', friends from Vancouver that I've been photographing with for years that I have a tremendous amount of respect for: David Wingate, Roberta Olenick, and two of my oldest pals (sorry guys, I had to throw in at least one joke about your ages!), Murray O'Neill and John Lowman.

Together, these four helped me have some of the most fun I've experienced with bird photography in years.  I showed you a few of the efforts from the first five days in yesterday's post, so today I finish off by showing off some of my favourite images from the final two days I spent in Vancouver after the sun finally broke through and washed the bay's beaches with some glorious light, just enough good fortune, and some great, great company.

Note once again that you can view even more images on my Facebook fan page, and you don't have to be a member to do so!

A snowy soaks in the sunshine with the Vancouver skyline and the Coast Mountains in the distant background.

A snowy owl flies by along the wetland at high tide.

The final few days provided several amazing short-eared owl encounters.

A shortie flies by me at close range while hunting over the fields opposite the bay.

A short-eared owl in flight, intent on scouring the ground for voles.

One of my favourite flight shots from the week.

And my personal favourite: a snowy owl in flight across the grassy meadows.

Thanks for looking everyone, Happy Shooting!

John

The Snowy Owl Irruption of 2012 - Part I

Hello everyone, I'm excited today to bring you the first glimpse on my blog of the great variety of owl images I've been posting over on my Facebook and Twitter accounts for the past two weeks since my return from the lovely environs of Vancouver, British Columbia to photograph the amazing 2012 snowy owl irruption in the Lower Mainland. Note that even if you aren't a member on Facebook, you can still view the whole snowy owl photo album (including larger size pictures than you see here).

The first photograph of the trip.  I stepped out of the car, took about twenty steps, and voila!

The trip was a grand success, culminating in over 6600 photos that I managed to edit down to 234 keepers. I'm also pleased to announce that I've already sold two of the images to Natural History Magazine in the U.S. for their upcoming February-March issue.

The owls seemed to be just about everywhere...on the driftwood, on the ground, and even in the grass.

A snowy owl from the Peek-a-boo series in the grass.

While I managed to get in a few quick hours of rain-free photography on the first two days, the third and fourth days were about as miserable as west coast weather can get: howling winds in excess of 70 km/hr and bucketfuls of rain made for some very lonely photography and interesting shots.  In fact, one afternoon I was the sole person in the bay for over four hours!  Just me and 23 snowy owls -- it's about as close to wildlife photography nirvana as I've gotten in a while.

The owls weren't quite as thrilled about the rain and wind as I was.

Because of the lack of other photographers, I was able to slowly walk among the owls at fairly close distances.

Another snowy in the Peek-a-book series!

On the fifth day, the weather began to improve again, offering up a few chances to get large groups of owls together in the same shot before too many photographers arrived on the scene.

Ten snowy owls on driftwood along the beach, near Vancouver, BC.

An owl takes a snooze on a piece of driftwood beautifully crafted by the wind, waves, and rain.

Stay tuned tomorrow for the final two days worth of photography, when the skies finally cleared and it all came together for some stunning flight shots of both snowy and short-eared owls.

Happy shooting!

John

Last-minute opening in Jasper workshop next week!

Hi everyone,

I've had a last-minute cancellation for my Jasper winter wildlife photography workshop next week (it starts on Tuesday evening) in beautiful Jasper National Park in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, which means that there is now a last-minute opening for a lucky photographer! 

This is a fantastic workshop for anyone wanting to improve their skills in wildlife photography and learn about tracking wolves, lynx, and other wildlife at the same time!  You can expect to photograph bighorn sheep, moose, elk, deer, coyote, and, if we're lucky, both wild wolves and lynx.

Bighorn rams on the 2011 Jasper winter wildlife photography workshop

If you're interested, please contact me directly for pricing details.  You can read more about the Jasper winter wildlife photography workshop here.

Happy shooting!

John

News and Notes for January

Hi everyone and Happy New Year!  I've been slacking off of late with my blog posts, but thought I'd update you all on what's been going on lately.

To begin with, I've been researching several new trips to the Arctic for my Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours company, so stay tuned for details as they come available.  This year's slate of wildlife trips is almost completely sold out already, so I'm excited to see what I can dig up for 2013!

Our June 2010 tent camp on the ice north of Baffin Island on the Ice Floe Edge trip to the Canadian Arctic

I've also just finally finished editing images from my 2010 Ice Floe Edge trip (you can view some of the best ones here).

Lots of great shots that I was very happy with, though of course as many of you read back then on this blog, I had hoped for more wildlife encounters.

I'm thinking of doing another Ice Floe Edge trip in 2013. If you want to join me, sign up on www.canwildphototours.com

In the frenzy of editing, I've also managed to wade through a pile of Canadian Prairies images from June and July 2010, including several that are now appearing in the 2012 Western Canada Wilderness Committee calendars.

A giant prairie bison bull eyes me warily in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan

I've also started working on some wildlife panoramas that have been sitting in my 'To Do' folder for the past 100 years.  The one below is what I consider to be the weakest of the bunch, but still good enough to post to see if you like it.  Click on the image for a full-size version of it.

A panoramic image of bulls from the Porcupine caribou herd crossing the tundra in the NWT north of the Arctic Circle

I'm taking a break from editing this week to head out to Vancouver to check out the snowy owl irruption currently going on out there.  I do have some nice images in my portfolio already from the prairies east of Calgary, but I am working on a story for Natural History magazine looking for some very specific images.

A beautiful male snowy owl on the prairies east of Calgary, Alberta

In other news, you can look for some of my images in this month's Canadian Wildlife magazine, and don't forget to check out my Facebook fan page for a more up-to-date compiling of my 'life as a wildlife photographer' (with semi-daily posts and pics).

Wish me luck in Vancouver, I'll try to post some pics when I get back!

Happy shooting!

John

Canadian Geographic on newstands now!

Wow, I go weeks without a blog post and now do two in one day!

This is just a quick note to let everyone know that the Canadian Geographic issue with my grizzlies on the cover is now on news stands and in stores throughout Canada.

The December 2011 issue of Canadian Geographic is on news stands now

You'll also find another 10 images of mine inside the magazine, so enjoy!

Happy shooting.

John

The Great Polar Bear Photo Adventure

"He's going to come right at us!"

And just like that, a 500-kilo polar bear hurled himself up and over the bank and bee-lined straight for us in a cloud of snow and seaweed.

When he was fifty meters from us, he put on the brakes and glanced behind him nervously, watching to see if his nemesis, the little 250-kilo white ball of fury that had chased him towards us, was still in sight.

Seconds later, the mother polar bear marched up the bank with her two big cubs in tow and glared furiously at the male, completely ignoring the two armed guides and the two photographers in front of her.

As the big male lumbered closer and closer towards us (and away from her), I tried desperately to fit some part of him in the frame with my 500mm lens, finally giving up when he got within twenty meters.  In perhaps a final test of what the boundaries might be, he took a hesitant step towards me and was instantly rewarded with a loud boom from one of the guide's rifles.  The crackerjack shell sent him running off across the tundra for a few hundred meters, where he lay down on the hardpack and cautiously eyed us on his left and the mother and cubs on his right.

The big male came flying over the bank right at us in a panic to escape the female

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Two days earlier, I had packed my bags in Canmore and headed for the polar bear capital of the world, Churchill, Manitoba, to begin my adventure.  However, unlike previous years, my trip this time wasn't going to be confined to the Churchill environs, where tourists crowd out onto the tundra on giant bus-like buggies to view and photograph the polar bears from high above in the safety of the buggies.

Instead, I was heading into the Arctic almost 200 kilometers north of Churchill for a true adventure in Nunavut into the heart of polar bear country along the famed polar bear alley on the west side of Hudson Bay.  I was on a mission to scout out a new location for polar bear photography for my Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours company that would give me a unique product not offered by any other photographer; so I'd flown into this tiny cluster of cabins in the absolute middle of nowhere hoping to photograph polar bears on foot at eye level!

I had been to Nunavut once before, as many of you know, on my moderately-successful Arctic Ice Floe Edge trip in 2009.  We had been promised bears and whales galore, but got up there to find ourselves in a landscape where the wildlife lived in constant fear of running into an Inuit hunter; as such, we never got within 150 meters of a bear.

So when I heard that a well-respected Canadian Arctic tour operator was opening up a very small, new polar bear viewing operation in a different part of Nunavut where they promised close encounters on foot with these magnificent animals, I was skeptical, but hopeful.  When the company heard I was interested in checking them out, they extended an invitation, and voila, I was off and running at the start of November.

The adventure began with a thrilling, hour-long flight over the tundra in a Twin Otter Turbo plane from Churchill.  I love small planes that hug the landscape, and this one provided a spectacular view of the coastline and of the Barrenlands.  I spent the entire hour scanning the horizon feverishly for wildlife and was rewarded with five different bear sightings!

We arrived at the tiny Arviat Polar Bear Cabin complex at noon on November 1st and despite the noise of our plane landing on the flat tundra, a polar bear was laying there having a snooze on the seaweed no more than 100 meters from the complex's electric fence.

The tiny cabin complex (6 cabins in total) is surrounded by an electric fence to keep the bears out

For the next three full days, we watched as eleven different bears wandered by the windswept complex, with many spending hours checking us out.  For the most part we stayed inside the fence and photographed them as they circled around us nosily, but we also ventured outside the fence regularly for forays onto the tundra in search of more bears (we saw five in total on our short hikes) and other arctic wildlife. By the end of the trip, I'd seen arctic hare, arctic fox, willow ptarmigan, snowy owl, and gyrfalcon.

An arctic hare eyes me warily on the edge of a frozen pond

Willow ptarmigan on the tundra

From a polar bear perspective, the trip was a fantastic success -- while we didn't see as many polar bears as I was used to seeing on my Churchill trips (where you can often see 10-20 bears in a day), I was like a schoolkid in a field of candy whenever a polar bear approached us. The level of excitement was palpable, as was the thrill I got from standing on foot face-to-face with these beautiful animals in non-threatening situations (the bears seemed to know that the fence and that the armed Inuit guides meant business and they either stayed back 30-50 meters, or they got a warning crackerjack shot fired at them once or twice, which kept them back).

Being on foot with these polar bears was an experience of a lifetime and I would try to put it more eloquently, but suffice to say that it's as close to indescribable as wildlife photography gets for me.

A huge polar bear checks us out at close range

A polar bear portrait

I was so impressed with the photography opportunities that presented themselves (and with the glorious ones I envisioned that didn't present themselves this year), that I began planning my trip back before my November adventure was even over!

So I'm excited to announce that I am going to be leading two polar bear photography adventures to the Arviat Polar Bear Cabins next year with this company, from November 9th-14th and from November 14th-19th.  The trips will include a full extra day at the complex (so a total of two half days on either end, with four full days sandwiched in between) and I've secured a deal that absolutely knocks the socks off of other similar photography adventures for polar bears!

It's a true adventure into Canada's hinterland, so if you've ever dreamed of photographing polar bears from ground level and wanted to do it with a fun group, then check out the rest of my pictures and if you're still interested, then go read about what the Polar Bear Photography Tour entails for November 2012.

A curious cub walks by us at close range

Polar bear tracks on the tundra just meters from the electric fence

Sunshine and -10 never felt so good!  A scenic view of the coastline at low tide.

A polar bear rolls around in the snow on a windy day

Another polar bear walks the beach by the complex

A polar bear mother and cub

The peek-a-boo polar bear!

My favourite shot from the trip, taken during a blizzard on Day 2

How close do we get?  Pretty close!

Our guides, Jason and Graham, checking out tracks with fellow photographer, Kevin

Eye level and gorgeous!

A mother and cubs trying to decide whether or not they should come visit us

Another one of my favourite polar bear photographs from the trip

Thanks for looking everyone!

Happy shooting!

John

Save 24-34% off my books as Christmas presents

If you're not going to be in Calgary this Saturday for my book signing at The Camera Store, you may want to take advantage of Chapters-Indigo's online discount on all four of my coffee table books.  If you order within the next day or two, you should receive any of the books by Christmas.

Get 34% off on all online orders at www.indigo.ca on my coffee table books

34% off The Canadian Rockies: Banff, Jasper & Beyond

34% off Wildlife of the Canadian Rockies: A Glimpse at Life on the Wild Side

34% off Banff & Lake Louise: Images of Banff National Park

24% off the small version of The Canadian Rockies: Banff, Jasper & Beyond

Chapters-Indigo do ship internationally, too, for those of you in the U.S. and beyond.

Happy holidays!

John

Book Signing in Calgary this Saturday, Dec 10th

I'll be at The Camera Store in Calgary on Saturday, December 10th (this Saturday) for a book signing of all four of my coffee table books from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm.  Drop in to grab a few Christmas presents or just to say "hi".

Book Signing in Calgary this Saturday at The Camera Store on 11th Ave SE

Happy shooting!

John