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then&there
Snapshots of BC
Over decades of photo jobs and jaunts around the province of British Columbia a vast library of photography can be drawn upon for a potpourri of the provincial soul.  Attached this month is a baker’s dozen illustrating diversity.  Expect more random selections of the province, and of the world, in future editions of “then&there”.
June 1999
A couple of cowboys in the Nemiah Valley east of Chilko Lake encourage wild horses to mosey on.  In the summer months many of the wild horses descend to lower valley elevations to graze the fresh spring grass in the meadows. There are about a thousand of these wild horses in the Chilcotin area of BC.
April 1999
Garibaldi Lake is blanketed in its winter eiderdown of snow, the lake still frozen until seasonal warmth returns it (too briefly) to a stunning glacial turquoise.  The dormant stratovolcano Mount Garibaldi towers over the lake – apparently its most recent eruption happened during the last ice age though eye-witnesses
to the event are unavailable.
October 1998
A sockeye salmon has completed its life cycle by spawning in the Adams River, now sporting a seasonal beret at a jaunty angle.  Its flesh will not be wasted, likely consumed by a foraging bear or eagle who happen upon it.
August 1998
Barkerville appeared almost overnight after gold was discovered by Englishman Billy Barker in 1861.  Its population peaked at close to 5000 until the famous gold rush waned.  The town was destroyed by fire in 1866 but was quickly re-built and improved before the gold discoveries dwindled and thus the population.  Today Barkerville is a provincial historic park attracting mostly summer visitors though in the dead of night one has the town all to oneself.
July 1998
Mount Assiniboine, at 3618 metres, is the highest peak of the Southern Ranges of the Rockies on the border of BC and Alberta, its eastern slopes
in Banff National Park.
May 1998
A juvenile grizzly recently out of winter hibernation fattens up on sedge grass in the estuary of the Khutzeymateen River.  This grizzly sanctuary, 45 kliks northeast of Prince Rupert, is accessible only by marine transportation.
September 1997
Ponds and lakes in Garibaldi Provincial Park are variations of blue as glacial till and volcanic lava minerals influence the colouration.  In early autumn the low-lying vegetation adds contrast to the palette.
August 1997
A purse seiner in Johnstone Strait hauls in a bounty of salmon.  The salmon are migrating through the narrow passage between Vancouver Island and the BC mainland to rivers and streams where they are genetically programmed to return, spawn, and die.
July 1996
A kayaker paddles back to camp near the west coast of Nootka Island just ahead of a storm coming her way.  Nootka Island is one of many large islands off the west coast of Vancouver Island, this island renowned for its cougar population.
August 1996
The ghost town of Namu is on the BC mid-coast.  The town once thrived with a sawmill and large modern salmon cannery along the boardwalks. A picturesque lake is behind the site.  A large seasonal native population once enlivened the town but in 1970 the cannery closed down and left behind a mess of discarded plastic, glass, and metal still littering the site.  Almost thirty years ago the only known resident walking the boardwalks was a solitary grizzly bear, the ursus horribilis gracious enough to vanish upon the arrival of four kayakers.
December 1997
Low cloud at sunset fills valleys between the North Shore mountains across from Vancouver and the greater Coast Range.
August 1997
The full moon rises above a tranquil estuary in southern Haida Gwaii.  The southern part of the archipelago (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) is known as Gwaii Haanas, a pristine protected area prized by expedition kayakers.
June 1973
A chicken near Kamloops was just minding its own business when suddenly the axe came down.
Am presently engaged in the onerous task of editing and scanning tens of thousands of old colour slides to digital imagery.  These range from the early 1970s up until the year 2006 when the switch was (finally) made to digital photography.  The editing and scanning appears to be a lifetime project.

A lot of photos are timeless. Some are historical or might be commercially viable some day.  Others are sentimental --- editing images to scan is also to illustrate the zeitgeist and fortunate path through the world of a global flaneur. 

It's absorbing to get into a theme for "then&there" --- maybe an expedition, an experience, or something else.  But it's also fun to just cherry-pick the images randomly and throw together a potpourri as you've just endured.

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