As the sun sets, a storm brews over Koocanusa. I love the texture in the sky and the cool blue tones of this picture.
Photo by Duane Clemens
6:8 Photography
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Fernie can get some spectacular evening thunderstorms. This was captured in 2009 after a beautiful sunny day of biking and fishing.
Photo by Todd Weselake
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Inline with our Green Edition, photographers were asked to submit photos representing an interaction between nature and man-made objects. These two were our favourites!
Wind turbines are a perfect example of Mother Nature and Man working together to create usable energy. In this image, Alex Paquin shares the same powerful wind to create seriously fun times kite boarding. Symbiosis at its finest.
Photo by Lisa Dawn Gover
Fernie is home to a host of many amazing winter activities, each with a different challenge. Here, Luke Nelson climbs one of the waterfalls in the Morrissey region during a cold spell in November.
Photo: Todd Weselake,
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This is big mountain rider Ryan Johannesen shredding a very technical line at Island Lake Catskiing. This spine to cliff feature in on the aptly named Spineback Ridge just under Papa Bear Peak.
My mother has always been my biggest inspiration. She puts so much energy into every climb. Now into her fifties she still pushes harder and climbs better than most people half her age.
Photo by Martina Halik
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While looking for a forest fire in the East Kootenays, we stumbled upon this old abandoned cabin. I started taking pictures from the outside of this cabin then passed my camera through the window to Brad who was standing inside the cabin and he snapped a pic of me standing on the outside peering in.
Photo by Brad Zuk
Portrait of Allegra Newill
Salmo Truck - I don’t know what it is about Salmo, BC but there seems to be a surplus of old abandoned trucks right off the highway. Out of all the trucks I found, this one had the most character. The curves are great and the rust creates great colour and texture, showing its weathered life.
Photo by Nick Nault
We were on a sea kayaking trip in the Broughton Archipelago and found ourselves in the little town of Echo Bay. I had been shooting some of the moored boats sitting in the harbour when I noticed how the colour of one of the ship's rudder and water was mixing. Since the story was the colour for me, I decided to crop the frame in such a way as to only keep a bit of the boat for context.
Photo by Kevan Wilkie / [6:8] Photography
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Burning Blur
The 5th Annual Dirt Diggler DH fall classic fell on a true Fernie fall day - fresh snow, fog, windy and wet. Pretty much the perfect set up. With a bucket of Chubby Chicken and a night at Island Lake on the line, competitive spirits were high. After some recent maintenance by the Back Country Trail Experts, twenty men and six women turned up to descend the gnarly course. Five photographers competed in the first annual Diggler Photo Shootout with Lisa Dawn Gover taking the grand prize of $50 and a bottle of wine.
This scene was at a rest stop in Montana. Complementary colours of faded green and rusty red were a classic combination, and the texture of the rust was an added bonus.
Photo by Janice Edwards
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Simple Beauty
I love how the simplest form can transform into eye catching pieces of art by using colour to evoke real emotions. This particular piece of art comes from a simple plastic bead curtain and a green wall.
Photo by Lisa Gover / Lisa Dawn Photography
Macros in Nature
