Saturday’s stages are held out of Calgary in the Porcupine hills area. It is truly beautiful country… especially with fog billowing over the ridge behind you into the valley below.

It was a challenging day, the weather went from not bad to brutal and back and forth… and back. But it did make for dramatic photo ops and challenging driving I’m sure.

A lot of earth worms were trying to escape the moisture on the road… I’m sure most of them had no idea what was coming!

Trying to stay dry!

2/3rds of the TV Crew. Good fellows!

It was a great weekend, I learned a lot and am excited to do more rally photography… but who am I kidding, i want to driiiive!

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This past weekend marked the 35th Anniversary of the Rocky Mountain Rally. I choose this year to get a bit more involved and really wanted to see & shoot more of the course.

I ended up volunteering with the TV crew (who were shooting for TSN). I teamed up mid day Friday with Phil to hang sponsor banners in his shots for the weekend.

Apart from the heavy rainfall over the weekend it was am great experience and weekend. Getting banners up for the video shooters did not take long or involve much more than creative zip tie work and then I was free to wander about with my still camera and shoot the racing action.

And the action was great! For stage 2 & 3 on Powder Face road we were stationed at a good sized ‘water hazard’ which made for some great photos even if it was a very gloomy and wet weekend.

This is Phil, I have about 4 degrees of separation from this guy.

Another May Long marked by the tradition of a BC road trip with my friend Ian. This year his new dog Dora joined us on our trip to Invermere.

We arrived late Friday night to find most of the camping blocked off, not sure what the deal was but we found a spot to call home for a few days. We did get dirty looks from the rancher who lives up the hill but, too bad for him. It’s crown land as far as I know and we weren’t being wankers.

It was a beautiful weekend of riding and hanging out. Ian’s dog rules, and Ian’s friend Dan is a good dude.

And now, the photos:

Its not a photo weekend without some macro’s.

Dora, best dog in the mid west!

Dora really likes sticks. If there is a doggie heaven, this was it for Dora.

I am hanging a few pinups in the 2nd Kitschy Koo show.

KitschyKoo is a great local zine run by a great gal, come out and support a whole lot of great artists and spend some money!!!

Had a shoot with one of my fav gal’s Niki! We had a great time and got some really fun images!

A few images from a recent shoot with a new model friend Rachel.