Sunset flight above Squamish, Garibaldi and Howe Sound = Totally rad times. I’ve made up my mind, now when I’m not dumping all my money into old motorcycles I’ll be working towards a pilot’s licence.
The BC RCMP have not been without their share of controversy over the past little while. Recent sexual harassment allegations by a well-known RCMP spokeswoman, the botched Robert Pickton Investigation, the shooting of Ian Bush, the Robert Dziekanski tasering death, and today’s article explaining the force is becoming excessively bureaucratized: http://tgam.ca/DHjK
With negotiations underway for a new 20-year deal for British Columbians, it’s no wonder B.C. is looking for more accountability… Photos below from a recent assignment for The Globe and Mail.
Mark Reynolds. Check out his art direction in http://www.nuvomagazine.com/ and http://montecristomagazine.com/
Another shoot I did for an NPR story on Burnaby’s General Fusion. Very interesting technology!
Listen to or read the story here: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/09/141931203/-power-for-the-planet-company-bets-big-on-fusion
I shot an assignment for National Public Radio last week on a proposed coal port just north of Bellingham, Washington. The story was on the front of NPR’s website today.
Here is a link to the story: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/26/141687537/in-northwest-town-a-local-fight-against-global-coal
I was lucky enough with the Rick Hansen Foundation and the Royal Canadian Mint recently. The Mint used one of my images of Rick on the front of their packaging for a new commemorative coin celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Rick’s Man in Motion World Tour.
October 12, 2011 – Vancouver, BC – A woman stands at a vigil outside the federal courthouse at the corner of Georgia and Granville Wednesday afternoon, the second day of the of the Missing Women Inquiry into the Pickton murders. Photo by Brett Beadle for The Globe and Mail
A few crappy iphone pics from some shots I took on the Mamiya a few nights ago. I’ve got a lot of scanning to do….
We had been vaguely thinking of hitting up Born Free for the past little while, and as the date grew closer it got talked about more & more. So, in typical fashion, I looked up flights a couple days before the show, found some cheap ones, got a good deal on some rental Harleys and we hit the road. Flew into LAX, picked up the bikes, stopped in Manhattan Beach for some Mexican, and then headed down the coast. Three hours into the ride, Luke’s oil pump blows, his bike sounds like it’s going to seize. This is on a 2 year old bike with 19,000 miles. Good ole’ HDs. He happens to break down right at Trestles, an epic surf spot Kelly Slater hangs out at, so we crack a Red Stripe on the beach and wait for a tow to arrive. I crash my bike on the interstate the next day right after Luke picks up his replacement bike, an old man style Bagger. A few scrapes later, some hugs from strangers who were happy I was alive, and we are on our way to Born Free 3. The show was crazy. Seeing that many amazing old bikes in one place is overwhelming, it becomes hard to concentrate on taking pictures because I was salivating at all of the insane bikes that were everywhere. People rode from all over the country to come to this event, worked on their bikes all year round to show them here, and the vibes from seeing such a crew of people so passionate about bikes was something I’ve never experienced anywhere else. We camp out with the Vancouver crew right up the road from the show, and hit up Venice beach the next day for some beers on the beach, and bomb home the next day. All in all, my kind of weekend.
