PHOTOGRAPHY SAMPLES

Mike Myers

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Georges St-Pierre

Singer songwriter, Donna Newsom

Quentin Tarantino addresses reporters at the Cannes Film Festival, 2009.

Actress Freida Perry

Brad Pitt and bodyguards

Otherwise deliberate, gracious and erudite, Keith Jardine ("The Dean of Mean"), sheds his real-life persona prior to shooting a key scene for his starring role in the 2009 action film, Death Warrior.

Venice Beach, California

Artist David Macdermott, foreground, with travelling companion, Tad, prior to disembarking the QE2 in Southampton, England.

Journalists congregate for drinks after a day's work at the Cannes Film Festival.

UFC fighter Rashad Evans on the set of first feature film, Death Warrior.

Retired world-champion mixed martial artist, now film producer, Hector Echavarria on the set of Death Warrior.

Joined by friend Martin Scorsese, right, renowned film critic Roger Ebert addresses a small crowd with the aide of "Alex", a computer with voice-to-text software. The ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival was held to rename the American Pavillion press conference room in his honour.

Soapbox derby

"Get the Shell out!" Northern British Columbians protest Shell Canada"s plans for coalbed methane extraction at the headwaters of BC's three major salmon-bearing rivers, the so-called Sacred Headwaters in the Klappan Valley.

Credited for establishing Cheslatta Forest Products, and thus bringing economic independence to the Cheslatta Carrier Nation, the death of Chief Marvin Charlie draws hundreds of mourners in BC's Lakes District.

Fatal drunk-driving hit and run, Vancouver 2009.

BC's minister of state for mining, Kevin Krueger, takes the podium at the 2008 Minerals North Conference

Unable to work due to a debilitating and rare skin disease, Gordon Felts shows off a $10,000 UV light his neighbours secretly raised funds to purchase.

A young girl lights a candle for victims of cancer before a ghostly procession in Smithers, BC, during the annual Relay For Life.

As the mountain pine beetle ravages BC's timber industry, reforestation efforts are in overdrive, as a small business owner celebrates the planting of his company's 300-millionth sapling.

Owner of Smither's Par Three Golf Course, Dee Lee Yuen, stands above one of many natural voids that formed aboved the lawns after an ice jam forced the Nechako river over its banks and onto the course. The natural phenomenon insulated the greens and ultimately saved him from bankruptcy.

Beer in hand, snowboarder Brady Stokes cheekily salutes the crowd while carving a perfect wave at the Schnai Dai races, a celebration to mark the end of ski season at Hudson Bay Mountain. This event challenges skiers and boarders to cross a frigid pond of water at the base of a run.

A paramedic looks on as a bull fighter commands a competitor to change directions immediately.

Hockey fans in downtown Vancouver celebrate Canada's gold medal victory over the US at the 2010 Olympic Games.

A car burns as a young man waves the BC flag during riots that followed the Vancouver Canucks' defeat in the Stanley Cup Final.

One in a series for the article A Stain Called Art, which follows the process of tattooing and the diverse reasons people get them.

One in a series for a feature article entitled A Stain Called Art.

One in a series for a feature article entitled A Stain Called Art.

The Queen Mary 2 enters the Mediterranean Sea.

Mystic Beach, Vancouver Island

Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A despondent-looking man hovers around an auspiciously named store in Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A stray cat prowls through the undergrowth of Rome's Protestant Cemetery, the final resting place of many non-Catholic travellers, including John Keats and Robert Byron. This is one of 12 photos published with an article for Cats Magazine, about the cat colonies that teem within Rome's ruins and the maligned women who raise money to care for them.

The Protestant Cemetery, Rome, Italy, for an article entitled What Roams in Rome's Ruins

A stray cat passes the tomb of Roman magistrate, Gaius Cestius,
for the article What Roams in Rome's Ruins.

Views from Mulholland No. 1: downtown LA

Views from Mulholland No. 2: castle estate

Views from Mulholland No. 3: stilt houses

Views from Mulholland No. 4: LA perch

London's Tower Bridge

The Gherkin Building towers above the deserted streets of
London's financial district.

Morning light in BC's Bulkley Valley

A boat lies derilect in the lagoon of the Funafuti atoll, Tuvalu

Lack of space for garbage disposal is one of many
ecological issues facing of the tiny island nation of Tuvalu.

Within 50 years' time, it's predicted this generation of Tuvaluans will have evacuated their country due to rising sea levels and increased storm surges, the combined consequence of climate change and domestic pollution.