No Expectations

Once we turn the van around and start heading for home, my shooting habits change a little bit. After shooting everyday for 10 weeks, you see things differently. I can afford to be picky about what I shoot. I can also just relax a bit and have some fun. I don’t have any expectations. I just shoot when I want and what I want.

Ron & the Milky Way

Shooting without purpose is fun. I just let my eyes make all the decisions.

Hodgeville, Saskatchewan

Mule Deer

Burrowing Owl

Cadillac Grain Elevator, SK

Quetico Provincial Park, ON

It’s been a great trip this year. We had many exciting moments. Sure, the driving and living out of a van can be tiresome but all that gets filtered out after a while. After 25,000 KM and shooting 32,000 images, it will be great to get home.

The Farm

Dreaming of Home

We have driven over 20,000 km by now. We are weary and dreaming of home. The places we have passed through are a blur. The bad memories are fading. The good memories are growing stronger - like the wolf at the side of the Dempster avoiding my gaze and my camera. In Dawson I didn’t bother to wash the mud off the van even though I passed right by the most used car wash in the country. No, I just let the rain slowly reveal the license plate. We are so privileged to live in Canada.

Quetico Provincial Park - Click for larger

I need to do more to protect it. We undervalue and overuse everything.

Osprey - Click for larger

It’s been a wonderful trip. Sometimes I wake up and think I’m already home. My bed, my shower and all the comforts waiting there. But still, it’s out here where I really feel alive.

Sand River Beach - Click for larger

By the time you read this, we will have had some down time at a northern beach and made the long drive home. The dream of the next trip has begun.