Explorations in blue is a series of cyanotype works focused on glacier ice; some of these are more exploratory and experimental, done outdoors with paper negatives on silk, or other large scale work done more seasonally. Other works in this series are calling back to more traditional sharp analogue images from the darkroom, with an exposure unit and contact negatives to create the imagery shown. In some way, each blue piece relates back to the ice, snow, water and glacier ice found in other work.
“Ice has a memory, and the colour of this memory is blue.”
“The colour of deep ice is blue, a blue unlike any other in the world—the blue of time.
The blue of time is glimpsed in the depths of crevasses.
The blue of time is glimpsed at the calving faces of glaciers, where bergs of 100 000 year-old ice surge to the surface of fjords far below the water level.
The blue of time is so beautiful that it pulls body and time towards it.”
—Robert MacFarlane, Underland
This piece looks at both glacial imagery, and river ice, tying the headwaters to downstream through an areal view of ice. Glacial ice is merged across several panels with thicker winter river ice, giving way to spring pancake ice flows in the North Saskatchewan. Each panel connects, but can easily be allowed to wander freely […]
Images taken on a trip in February of 2024, crossing the frozen glacial lake just below the Saskatchewan Glacier and coming up to a partially collapsed ice cave that had formed (and subsequently melted that summer) in early 2023. I was fortunate to go along with several other Edmonton based photographers, and with expert guiding […]
Images taken on a trip in February of 2024, crossing the frozen glacial lake just below the Saskatchewan Glacier and coming up to a partially collapsed ice cave that had formed (and subsequently melted that summer) in early 2023. I was fortunate to go along with several other Edmonton based photographers, and with expert guiding […]
This 12 panel project took two summers to complete, working from July 2023 though to mid September, and then in the summer of 2024, slowly creating each panel one at a time. Good weather (low wind, blue skies, less smoke, ideally not too hot) dictates the workflow. The photos are stitched together of the icefall […]
Images taken on a trip in February of 2024, crossing the frozen glacial lake just below the Saskatchewan Glacier and coming up to a partially collapsed ice cave that had formed (and subsequently melted that summer) in early 2023. I was fortunate to go along with several other Edmonton based photographers, and with expert guiding […]
Images taken on a trip in February of 2024, crossing the frozen glacial lake just below the Saskatchewan Glacier and coming up to a partially collapsed ice cave that had formed (and subsequently melted that summer) in early 2023. I was fortunate to go along with several other Edmonton based photographers, and with expert guiding […]
Images taken on when traveling right up and into the first cascade of seracs on Athabasca glacier in 2023. The images took a little while to percolate into the darkroom from there, but eventually became a physical print rather than an ephemeral presence only within the camera; these are one of the first images printed […]
Images taken on a misty summer morning back in 2023, walking (nearly by) my myself close to the shore of the Cavelle pond and marveling at the stillness of the water. The images took a little while to percolate into the darkroom from there, but eventually became a physical print rather than an ephemeral presence […]
The first experimentation with working large scale on silk with Cyanotype. The set of 3 panels are each 4ft by 8.5 ft, and show the interior of a glacial millwell that I had been lowered into while on Athabasca Glacier back in 2021. The layers of ice are very visible, containing decades of information on […]