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Eagle
February 28, 2024 - I'm not a bird photographer but I went on an outing with a friend who is. Getting out into nature and seeing eagles in t...
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Theme Red
February 23, 2024 - The Vancouver Street Photography Collective features a weekly theme on its VSPC Instagram account. I created these image...
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iPhone Photography in the UK
February 01, 2024 - I made these photographs on short outings or walks in the area between Windsor and Reading in the UK. We were there for...
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Drone Photography
August 07, 2023 - Flying a drone opens a world of perspectives for the photographer. For me this image asks what is the story of this aban...
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Shoes
August 07, 2023 - Sometimes a clipped image tells the story better than the full image would. For this photograph I first found the locati...
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Canada Day
July 11, 2023 - On Canada Day, I joined friends for the fly-in at the Delta Heritage Airpark. As well as a great assortment of aircraft...
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The Storm Before The Storm
June 15, 2023 - A clear sky transformed into a sea of clouds. The sky swirled. Then the storm broke. I made this image in Graz, Austria.
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Paragon Choir Tour to Austria & Prague
June 13, 2023 - In June 2023 Vancouver's Paragon Choir sang in nine cathedrals and churches in Austria and Prague. It was a life experie...
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Strong Street Colors
May 11, 2023 - Red, green and blue. Together they create an eye-catching image. This photograph was selected for the Vancouver Street P...
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Buntzen Lake Outing
April 22, 2023 - In April I joined a photography outing with friends to Buntzen Lake. The organizer challenged us to create images of hal...
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Twelve Hours of Street Photography
March 05, 2023 - What do you see when, camera in hand, you spend 12 hours wandering the streets? On March 4, 2023 I was honoured to be on...
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Can You Find The Coffee Cups?
February 18, 2023 - Street photography can portray human lives without including anyone in the image. This image tells a story. It also rais...
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B/W with the iPhone
December 28, 2022 - Plants almost demand to be photographed in colour with their exuberant palette. However, the photographs in this blog we...
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Focus on Blurry Photographs
November 23, 2022 - Does a photograph have to be razor sharp? What about taking the exact opposite approach? I made this image during a Vanc...
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Winter (?) in Vancouver
November 16, 2022 - No wonder the Lower Mainland of BC is known as Lotus Land. Jogging in shorts with snow on the ground? Only in Vancouver!...
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Summer in Romania
August 16, 2022 - Romania may not be top-of-mind as a tourist destination. It should be. The cities are vibrant and the countryside offers...
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Spring in the United Kingdom
August 16, 2022 - A visit to the UK is always special, so much to see and do. These images are from London and from hiking routes near Bat...
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Market Morning, Austria
August 16, 2022 - Market day in Graz, Austria. Set-up crew was at work by 4:00am; shoppers were stocking up on a enormous selection of fre...
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The More You Look, The More You See
August 16, 2022 - What is it about a photograph that draws us in?
In his lectures and workshops retired National Geographic photographer...
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Look Up, Way Up!
April 04, 2022 - The fascinating scenes created by people going about life is what intrigues me in street photography. Sometimes though i...
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Mt. Garibaldi
April 04, 2022 - When we get a "blue bird" sky it's a great opportunity for dramatic, high-contrast photography. I was fortunate to go fl...
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Back From Botswana
November 16, 2021 - After 18 months of pandemic delays, we were able to make our long-dream of a safari come true. It was amazing to spend t...
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iPhone Fun
November 16, 2021 - For a change, I left my full-frame camera at home and did some street photography with my iPhone. In my "Masks Mandatory...
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Drive Green Highway
May 30, 2021 - Boats are small; ships are big. The ship Drive Green Highway, which incorporates leading-edge marine environmental techn...
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Snow Castles
March 01, 2021 - A little piece of paradise exists in Vancouver's North Shore Mountains. I made these images with my iPhone 12 Pro in RAW...
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This is also Winter in Vancouver
January 23, 2021 - Sunny days with strong winter side light - that's almost as good as doing photography in the pouring rain (see my previo...
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Winter in Vancouver
January 05, 2021 - It's monsoon season again in Vancouver. I'm always going on about how bad weather makes great photographs. So I just had...
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Color Us Covid
November 22, 2020 - I'm pleased that my slideshow, Color Us Covid, has been selected for PhotoMotion 2020.
PhotoMotion 2020 is now availabl...
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Drone Magic
October 15, 2020 - Gotta love "Big Sky Country"! I made this image with my drone on a recent road trip through southern Alberta. Those wide...
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Milky Way on a Clear Night
August 01, 2020 - This photograph of the Milky Way is one that I made on a clear July night in Manning Park, BC. I read that the Milky Way...
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Vancouver Paradise
July 17, 2020 - The most AMAZING Vancouver sunset ever. I made this photograph with my iPhone while on a walk through Vanier Park.
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Creating a Painterly Photograph
July 01, 2020 - Sometimes it's fun to try a new approach. Typically I like to photograph a scene to capture a moment, to tell a story. I...
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Famous Shopping Street Goes Virtual
May 20, 2020 - Robson Street in Vancouver is a high-end destination for shoppers. During the Covid19 pandemic shops are shuttered. Arti...
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Creativity in a Time of Covid
April 16, 2020 - Feeling house-bound during the Covid pandemic? Macro photography is not my forte. But with the spring bulbs in our garde...
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Order in Chaos
April 16, 2020 - To me this image is both complex and simple. Theoretically an image with this many lines going in this many directions s...
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Calm Waters
February 03, 2020 - II love the serenity of this image. I made this from ferry to ferry on the Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen route (essentially V...
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Winter in Vancouver
January 18, 2020 - Yes it can snow in Vancouver! And bad weather makes for great photographs. When I saw this pedestrian slogging toward th...
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Early Bird
January 11, 2020 - Thanks to the good folks at Kerrisdale Camera for organizing a photowalk at the White Rock Pier today, the longest pier...
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Bad Weather - Good Photographs #2
November 12, 2019 - There weren't any other photographers out on the streets when I made this image.
Did I come home soaked? Yes. Did my eq...
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Fun With Art Filters
October 21, 2019 - Sometimes I just have to move beyond the realism and detail that digital cameras are so good at capturing. Here's a litt...
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Up Close at the Pacific National Exhibition
August 26, 2019 - Making great images at a fair or rodeo is challenging. Yes there is color and action, lots of it. And therein is the pro...
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Telling the Story
July 09, 2019 - Whenever I am at a public gathering, I am on the look-out for unique moments that tell a story. I made this image of Gra...
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Bad Weather - Good Photographs
February 11, 2019 - Bad weather is the perfect time to get out and make good photographs. Stormy weather adds atmosphere and drama to a scen...
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Landscape Photography - Catching the Moment
January 06, 2019 - First snowfall of the winter, Lake O’Hara, British Columbia. © Ted Nodwell 2018
When I walk in the mountains, I am in a...
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Cycling in Austria from Innsbruck to Salzburg
December 13, 2018 - Mountains, rivers, rich green farm fields, dedicated bike paths, friendly people and fabulous food – this is cycling in...
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A Photograph Is Worth A Thousand Words
August 21, 2018 - Thanks to everyone who came to the opening of my photo exhibit "Moments: Life As We Live It" at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classica...
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Moments: Life As We Live It Exhibit Coming to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
July 18, 2018 - This collection of images tells our story.
My photographs in "Moments: Life As We Live It" were made in Canada, China,...
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Travel Photography in Guizhou province, China
July 06, 2018 - Mountains draped in greenery, karst limestone gorges and canyons, colorful festivals, pastoral villages, terraced rice f...
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Street Photography in Hanoi, Vietnam
May 29, 2018 - "Get close! Now get closer!" This was the mantra I heard over and over while doing street photography in Vietnam with Ma...
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Vancouver in Winter
February 09, 2018 - While much of BC and Alberta currently has heavy snowfall and cold temperatures, here in Vancouver we finally got a few...
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The Early Bird Makes the Photograph
January 28, 2018 - Can you find the jogger in this photograph? I made this image one morning recently when I woke early and went downtown t...
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Street Photography Workshops
November 07, 2017 - Vancouverites love their coffee, even if they have to put a lid on to keep the autumn leaves from falling in.
I made th...
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BC's Inside Passage
September 29, 2017 - British Columbia's Inside Passage is world-renowned. Now that I have done it, I see why: spectacular and ever-changing s...
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Log Bouquet
August 23, 2017 - On August 21, the day of the solar eclipse, I had the good fortune to be flying over Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. A...
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Gone Flying!
May 30, 2017 - "Gone Flying" was a sign that I used to hang on my door. The sign is long-gone and my pilot's license has lapsed. So ima...
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Image Included in Human Rights Video
May 03, 2017 - One of my photographs that won the Allard Prize Photo Competition in 2014 has been included in a recently-released video...
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Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival
January 30, 2017 - The Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival parade was held on January 29, 2017. This was the 44th year of the parade. It is...
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It's the Light
December 06, 2016 - A major storm was blasting the Italian coastal area of Cinque Terre when we arrived the day before. Today the trail was...
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Imago Mundi Publishes "Oh West Canada"
December 05, 2016 - We were thrilled to receive our copies of "Oh West Canada ", a book of contemporary artists in which we both had the hon...
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Abbotsford International Airshow
August 16, 2016 - Thundering fighter jets to graceful parachute ballets, the Abbotsford International Airshow has it all.
From August 12...
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Let Go
July 28, 2016 - Sometimes you just have to try something different.
These Mexican dancers were performing on an outdoor stage in bright...
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Pacific NorthWest Art School Hosts Photo Exhibit
June 22, 2016 - The Pacific NorthWest Art School in Coupeville, Washington was packed on June 4, 2016 for a public lecture by former Nat...
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Just Do It
April 23, 2016 - Today Evelyn and I were invited to a seminar sponsored by a leading camera manufacturer. Instead we opted to take our ca...
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Are HDR and Extreme Saturation a Photo Fad?
March 24, 2016 - On Facebook or Instagram, in photography contests and magazines, I see images that have had large dollops of post-proces...
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Inspiration
January 06, 2016 - As we head in to 2016 I think how the message in this image is so important to photographers and to all creatives. In th...
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Cameras - Mirrorless vs DSLR
November 23, 2015 - We are fortunate to be photographers during a time of rapid technological advances. The options open to us are greater t...
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Photographs Highlight Human Rights
October 07, 2015 - The Allard Prize is awarded every two years to an individual, movement or organization that has shown exceptional courag...
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Exotic Locations Near Home
September 17, 2015 - I found this fascinating hoodoo in Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park about 100 kilometres from Lethbridge, Alberta.
As a...
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Imago Mundi Project To Feature Canadian Artists
July 30, 2015 - Evelyn and Ted Nodwell each have an image accepted to the Imago Mundi collection of Contemporary Artists from Western Ca...
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Paris in the Summertime
July 30, 2015 - Ah! Paris! Those iconic circular billboards. An iconic stone church and an iconic wrought-iron fence in the background....
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Panorama Phone Fun
June 01, 2015 - Here are two amazing things coming together. Nature combined a spectacular sunset with a full rainbow. Engineers and sof...
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Beyond Vienna, the Real Austria: A Photographic Dream Tour
May 21, 2015 - This is an update to a blog originally posted in March of last year. Join Austrian-born anthropologist and award-winning...
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Art Across the Pacific Builds Links
May 02, 2015 - Evelyn and I were thrilled to be invited to join an art and cultural exchange between China and Canada.
In April this y...
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Austria: A Photographic Dream Tour
March 19, 2015 - We are excited that our 2015 tour to Austria is going to be a photographer's dream!
Evelyn Nodwell is an Austrian-born...
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Influenced by Impressionists
March 15, 2015 - People and trains move quickly in the Paris metro. The challenge for the photographer is to decide whether to stop the a...
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Art Students at the Louvre
March 05, 2015 - When I came across this group of students at the Louvre in Paris, I was struck by how their position and the light creat...
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Looking For The Light
October 04, 2014 - The word "photography" means writing with light.
At Nitobe Memorial Garden the other day, I decided make a point of loo...
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Be Happy! Use The Equipment You Have
September 23, 2014 - As photographers we love equipment. But if we tell ourselves that we don't have the "right" gear, we risk closing the do...
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Zero Gravity Photographs, Part II: Image Manipulation
July 22, 2014 - Here is another image I made while relaxing in my zero gravity chair in my backyard.
Okay, I admit it, the scene didn't...
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Zero Gravity Photographs: Letting the Image Come to You
June 25, 2014 - Photographers strive to create the perfect image. That might mean going on location and searching for the ideal vantage...
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Human Rights Image Selected in Allard Prize Photo Competition
May 30, 2014 - A poster on a fence in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires caught my eye. It made me stop and look. It was the action of t...
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Beyond Vienna, the Real Austria: A Photographic Dream Tour
May 30, 2014 - Join Austrian-born anthropologist and award-winning photographer, Evelyn Nodwell, whose travel photographs have been pra...
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China Welcomes Artists
May 29, 2014 - “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things,” wrote novelist Henry Miller, who was also a travel...
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Canadian Photographers Exhibit in China
May 05, 2014 - Photographic duo Evelyn Nodwell and Ted Nodwell were invited to China to exhibit their images at the Art Museum of Guiya...
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Welcome
October 17, 2013 - Are you intrigued by the power of photographs to tell stories and to pose meaningful questions? Are you a traveler, in p...
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