We really look forward to fall on Vancouver Island, the salmon start to run and when they do the bear come to the party. This short video is from one of the first outings this fall. Salwa put together a fun video of these three bears that were fishing within a few feet of each other.

The final episode of our 5 months on the road with our camper trailer and cameras. We chased the sun, but the rain and cold were always just nipping at our heels. It may not have been the trip we expected but it was certainly a trip to remember.

After our detour to Florida for a boat show we started back towards the west coast. The road seemed clear a head of us but storms were right behind us all the way. We did start to find some of the best campsites of our trip and some fantastic photo locations along the way. Welcome back to our photo road trip as we visit a beach tree grave yard in South Carolina, go through sand storms in Texas, sleep with the cows in Arizona, and find some burrowing owls in the California desert.

So big that Salwa split it into 2 videos. One this second one we wander along the Mexico border through Big Bend State park and then back up to an interesting little artist town called Marfa.

We didn’t originally have plans to go to Texas but with cold and snow following us on our way south we found that there might be a little warm weather down at Big Bend. Once in Texas it was hard to leave, partly due to the distances and partly due to circumstances that were out of our control. This video gets us down into Big Bend National park after a few interesting stops along the way.

Our time in these two states was short on this part of the trip with another Arctic weather mass heading our way. We did get some good hiking in some iconic areas, a taste that is going to bring us back for more.

We explore Valley of Fire and Joshua Tree hiking some beautiful rocky landscapes and getting some of our favourite photos from the trip so far.

Salwa was very busy editing this fourth installment of our winter trip. In this episode I find an owl in some really big trees. Salwa spends quality time with a sea otter and we both get hit by rain and sand on the same dunes.

Quick video marking the end of our time in southern BC before we take off for the winter on a new Photo/video adventure through the Western US. Can't wait to get out there with the camera on a daily basis again.

Quick video marking the end of our time in southern BC before we take off for the winter on a new Photo/video adventure through the Western US. Can't wait to get out there with the camera on a daily basis again.

Quick video marking the end of our time in southern BC before we take off for the winter on a new Photo/video adventure through the Western US. Can't wait to get out there with the camera on a daily basis again.

Quick video marking the end of our time in southern BC before we take off for the winter on a new Photo/video adventure through the Western US. Can't wait to get out there with the camera on a daily basis again.

After having spent years tent camping and carrying our gear on our back or in our kayaks we are now getting used to the considerable luxury of having it all on wheels. Getting used to moving around with a camper and all the nifty things that come with it takes some time and a few weekends of close to home camping and photography.

One of our plans when we moved out west was to be able to get closer to nature for longer periods of time, and do so with a bit of comfort. In this video we pick up our new camper trailer and go on a trek from Edmonton Alberta back to the Okanagan Valley through some spectacular scenery. This is hopefully just a taste of what is to come for us in the next few years.

The second stop on our Western “where to live” tour will keep us in the Okanagan Valley possibly for the next year. In our first couple of months we have managed to hike and explore much of the valley. I have spent a good amount of time looking for good nature locations for photography and continue looking for that piece of land that we will want to call home.

Our move out west during the pandemic has been interesting. A long drive across Canada in December, and a month in Nelson in the amazing Kootenays is a good start, but we are still looking for a final spot to live so that we can fully explore the nature and landscape of Western Mountains and coast of Canada.

Screech Owls, Coopers hawks, migratory birds all come to this tiny woods in Fort Erie, Ontario. A piece of woods that may not be here much longer as urban sprawl continues to take over Southern Ontario. This location was an amusement park for Buffalo tourists about 100 years ago but nature took it back over in that short time. This is my first attempt to give a bit of narrative in a video that we filmed over a couple of months in the spring of 2020. Hopefully I will learn to be more comfortable in front of the camera but you have to start somewhere.

Every year we tried to get to Edisto Beach on the South Carolina coast. Camping at Edisto State Park gave us a great location for day trips out to places like Botany Bay Plantation and the beach boneyard that was a landscape photographer’s dream.

Kayaking in a swamp on the north-west end of Lake Marion in South Carolina. This was one of our favorite nature spots, only a couple hours from our place near Greenville. Pretty much any time of year this area was worth a paddle. Summers could be a little too hot, but spring and fall were great times to look for owls, osprey, ibis, herons and even a pair of limpkin. The alligators and turtles were abundant, and the scenery was just out of this world.