playing around, bored with a projector, old slides taken from my mother's cottage when she was a girl and two sets of caribou antlers.

top) the image is of my granny canoeing on lake opiniocon, near elgin ontario. it has obviously been double exposed and in the original image you can see how badass her 60s bathing suit is. the thing has a real rope acting as a back strap. try that out without looking like a hobo.

middle) this image is a combination of my granny paddling and my mum and uncle hanging out on an old log raft.

middle) mum and uncle bruce on the raft. raft.

nothing really makes you feel the same as skies this big, and you quickly adjust from open land to wooded hills, or rocky mountains, but the feeling is truly a different sensation. not mind blowing just different.

top) big muddy.

second from top) south of big muddy lake, "cowboy caves".

second from bottom) i think this is a coulee.

bottom) grasslands, just north of the states. the speck on the ground is a deer. the cool thing about wildlife here, is just watching. you can see a deer from a mile away, and just watch it graze. for the most part the animals know your there, and keep a safe distance, but they don't run. i bought a new telescopic lens for my camera, we'll see if i can get some cool results with it.

a series of structures in southern saskatchewan. all but the bottom photo are buildings which have either been abandoned or farms that are no longer used. there is a pretty wide open/rugged feeling when driving this part of the country. literally wiping the dust out of your mouth.

top) this was an old cattle or horse farm that was no longer being used.

second from top) this photo was taken right in the flats of the big muddy. everything was grown over, and really felt like i had jumped back a century when i went up to the old prairie home. nothing was in there, and i was kind of hoping for a little keep-sake, a broken porcelain horse or something.

middle) this was a on old cattle corral built right up into the side of the rock.

second from bottom) canada's best shed, it also might be an outhouse. this was taken in the big muddy, and was actually the site of the last RCMP detachment in the badlands. there is a monument near by saluting the history of the area, and commemorating the lawlessness of the land and the bootleggers that used to run here.

bottom) a home, and working horse ranch in the middle of the big muddy, if it is your thing it would be heaven on earth. if you were a teenager growing up here, you would be clawing at the ceiling to get out of there.

these were taken on my drive to the badlands.

top) in four hours of driving down dirt roads i saw more deer than people (3-0), and more horses than deer.

second from top) rolling hills.

middle) north shore of big muddy lake.

second from bottom) in the distance: long abandoned building, and long abandoned baseball field. again, no people. if you build it they will come... and go.

bottom) grasslands.

snow geese migrating south.

top) oil, oil, oil. southern saskatchewan is black gold land.

middle) forget the farming, we've got oil.

bottom) this was taken in roche percee, not new orleans. it is a town filled with history, petroglyphs, tee-pee circles, buffalo kill sites, and now an abandoned trailer park. the town was hit hard by the flooding in southern saskatchewan this past spring. everybody has been forced out and asked to relocate. abandoned, much like the rest of rural saskatchewan.

top) rocks around roche percee

bottom) rocks around roche percee