MONOCHROME One....

"Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that colour never can....." -Jack Antonoff

Elk Falls

"Black and white are the colours of photography....." -Robert Frank

Stuart/Morgan

"I will do nothing lightly. When I feel, I will feel everything. When I love,  I will love everything..." -Evan Tanner

Dale/Morgan

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us..." -Samuel Smiles

Tyee Spit/Quadra Island

"Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on a golden cord..."- Wilferd Peterson

Big Cat little Cat

"Don't think small and expect to have a big life..." -Marianne Williamson

Marina

                                     "Be bold...." -Josei Toda

"Whatever you can dream you can do, or dream you can, begin it...."

                                               -W.H. Murray

Winter tree

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty..." -John Ruskin

Pier

                                 "Nature always wears the colours of the spirit..." -R. Waldo Emerson

Tyee

"I  thank You, God, for this most amazing day......" -e.e. Cummings

"Find something good in your life.....then watch how your life changes..." -Leon Brown

Hawk

          "We need silence to be able to touch souls..." -Mother Teresa

                       "Black and white is an illusion of what is real..." -Ruth Bernhard

                                                        "You are the only one of You..." - Mia Michaels

Winter Sky

"Nothing happens, unless first we dream... " -Carl Sandburg

Estuary

“When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!” – Ted Grant

"I feel like this is the beginning........" - Stevie Wonder

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart...." -Helen Keller

Little Mr. Pooh

Photographs 2025
 

JUST PHOTOS (#1) 2016-2024

"To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy...."  -Henri Cartier-Bresson

(A look back at some of my best photos from View Bug Photography Site competitions worldwide.......)

             (Winter 2019 Top Shot winner." The Cusp" Mt.Washington Range, B.C.)

                  (Aug 2023 Final Contender for Visual Poetry Project...."Painted Rose")

(Dec 2023 Achievement in Originality, May 2022 Curator award, July 2022 Halfway Award, Year End Award 2022 Staff Favourite......"Marshmallow World")

(Sept 2022 Top Pick Award...."Pine Siskin")

(Dec 2023. 1763 out of 22,106 submissions.  top 10%. "Winter Thaw"

(July 2023  1763 out of 22,106 submissions. Top 10%))

                                                                (Jan 2023 Gem Award...."Varied thrush")

(Summer 2023  1712  mention...." Fire in Campbell River, B.C.")

(Dec 2023  "Cordelia" . Ranked highest 10% out of over 10,000 submissions in Cat photos)

(March 2022 Top Shot Award..."Sunset in Winter" )

(Fall 2023 Epic Contest. 7554 ahead of 7998 submissions. "Witch at Tyee Spit")

(Dec 2022. "Patience"(Cordelia's housemate). Top 10% out of 10,000 submissions in Cat Contest along with Cordelia's pic)

(Wintr 2023  Epic Contest. 1203 over 14,371 submissions. "Stellar Dinner")

                           (Spring 2023  10,342 ahead of 23,321 submissions. "Vintage roses")

(July 2024 Best Shot award. 1701 over 16,43 submissions. "Yes, dear")

 

                                                                (Summer 2023 Image Award......"Columbine")

(March 2023 Aperture Award......"The Range")

(Aug 2024 View Bug Nominee Award. ..."Two Finches")

(Dec 2024 World Wildlife  Contest. 1351 over 12,741 submissions. Top 10 %.

"Nom Nom sleeps"  Fall Contest 2023 top 10%)

(Winter 2018. Community Choice Award...."Flicker")

 (Summer Selection 2016, Zenith Award 2022, Nov 2023 Action Award, Oct 2023 Chatter Award. "Cordelia Prays") (One of my fav pics.)

(Oct 2024. Talent in Focus Award. "Happeeeeeee Mini")

(April 2023 Spring Award. "Look at Me")

Photographs 2025 

FIRST DAY.......

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved, and believes in the goodness in people..."-Roy T. Bennett

"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been...." -Rainer Maria Rilke

     "Without faith , nothing is possible. with it, nothing is impossible.."

                          -Mary McLeod Bethune

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 book. Write a good one..." -Brad Paisley

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love..." 

- 1 Cor 13:13

"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice..." 

-T.S. Eliot

      "We love because He first loved us...." -1 John 4:19

"You do not find the happy life. You make it..." -Benjamin Franklin

"You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden..."

                             -Matthew 5:14

"Three hundred and sixty five sunrises to start over...." -E.McD.

"Be gutsy. Hold onto that grace...." -John Piper

"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage...." -Susan Sontag

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"So I close my eyes to old ends, and open my heart to new beginnings..." 

                                                                                                                    -Mandy Hale

"You really have to let go of everything and say, God your will, not mine.." 

                                                           -Danny Gokey

"Celebrate endings.....for they precede new beginnings...."

                      -Jonathan Huie

"The object of a New Year is not we should have a new soul..." -Gilbert K. Chesterton

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step...." -Martin Luther King

"God is so good to give us new days and New Years , since He knows we need to start many times over.." 

                           - Lacey Sturm

Photographs 2025                         Happy New Year....