Panoptikon Photography

Panoptikon Photography I sell fine-art prints of landscape and nature photography from Western Canada and travel photography Where ever I roam, my camera is at my side.

In my photography, I hope to bring visual life to the statement of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze that "the nomad has no history, only a geography." Sea to Sky Photography:

My landscape photography has a focus on mountain wilderness and the high-alpine. I strive to capture the immortal essence of these great stone cathedrals of our landscape. The mountains offer an alternately stark and bounti

ful vision of nature and project a mythic presence that has, unsurprisingly, landed them in ancient mythology from around the world. Locally, it is said in Squamish First Nations' legend that when a great flood came to this corner of the world, the survivors secured their canoes to the summit of Mount Garibaldi to wait out the watery apocalypse. Mountains are the stuff of myth, dreams, and risky aspirations. Here in Sea to Sky Country we are in the perfect position to feel their impact on our lives and our landscape. I aim to capture the nuances of these omnipresent stone giants in my photography, along with the adjoining beauty of Howe Sound, and offer a bit of their majestic wonder to my customers. My work hangs in many businesses around Squamish and is perfect for the fine-art collector; the business-owner looking to decorate; local travel and tourism outfits; stock photographic projects; and much more. International Travel Photography:

My travel photography features landscape, nature, wildlife, birdlife, and urban photography as well as candid portraiture from 3 continents. My collections mirror the movement of a traveler as they may cover a great amount of ground in a short time or linger in one area (a city, a market, ancient ruins) to explore every nook and cranny. I have a wide variety of hundreds images from Sri Lankan fish markets to the Colorado Rockies, northern Ethiopian mountains, the red dunes of the Namibia Expanse, and the fiery fall colours of Washington State just to name a few locations. I have a number of individual photos for any given stock photography need and every personal preference of collectors and other customers. Photographic Services:

My photographic services include on-site corporate contracts (product or person portraiture for example); real estate photography; experienced free-lance journalistic work; outdoor portfolio work; birthday parties, and special-request projects. I try to maintain flexibility in my contracts to best meet the needs of my clients.

Back on Vancouver Island!
05/26/2026

Back on Vancouver Island!

Absolutely fascinating...
12/03/2025

Absolutely fascinating...

The Orion Constellation in Earthen Architecture.

On the Marha plain, Morocco, stands the Himmelsstadt Orion (2000-2003). It is not merely architecture, but a planetary-scale sculpture by Hannsjörg Voth, who represented the seven main stars of Orion with rammed earth towers.

The geometry is cosmic: the stars' position and luminosity dictate the towers' planimetry, 40x100, and heights, up to 15m. Slits in the walls are precisely calculated for observing specific constellations at exact times.

The project is a dialogue between human art and cosmic geometry, an astronomical calendar sculpted in the desert.

Panoptikon Photography's Project has now been running for just over a year. Explore the very essence of sacred spaces...
11/30/2025

Panoptikon Photography's Project has now been running for just over a year. Explore the very essence of sacred spaces around the world through photography and essays.

As human beings, our communities are filled with structures and spaces that serve real, "practical" purposes. Our homes give keep us safe; our factories produce useful products; our state buildings provide a space for governance; and so on. Yet, it is our places of worship that receive pride-of-place and inspire veneration and unique respect though they do not provide an essential resource, a vital product, or an important practical service. These are the spaces where the veil between our world and the next is pulled thin and diaphanous. They fill a role that is fundamentally different from any other and many of our lives' most important events take place within them.

In this project, I examine every possible aspect of sacred spaces and this project is still ongoing. I have used photography from early-modern era churches in Ecuador; ancient Mayan temples in Belize; shrines to Tamil Hindu Gods in Sri Lanka; the largest Buddhist temple in the world in Indonesia; the immense Hassan II mosque in Morocco; and many more examples in pursuit of this project's aims.

Listed below are links to the most recent Twitter (X) essays of this project which each have four photos attached. Earlier tweets can be found under the hashtag and many more essays can be found at:

https://www.instagram.com/panoptikon.photography/

on Instagram under the same hashtag.

I invite all to explore these entries and I hope that you will find these places and the ideas embodied by them to be as fascinating as I do.

Twitter Essays:

Boethius and the nature of time in places of worship:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1943891751338418578

The powerful draw of the divine:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1946642964773785774

A topology of holiness:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1947886849818542564

Light and color:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1953156436193931773

Religious grandeur:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1955699519364194750

Case examples of the role of light and color:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1956438221547802727

Case studies of communication and symbolism:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1956621383183847656

The psychology of religious interiority:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1963452511400210869

A story of Mayan shamanism in Mexico:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1967800701435650261

Sacred spaces of First Peoples:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1968086564665278880

A world of small churches:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1971798185543893434

More on small churches:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1972104287447847387

Sacred volcanos:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1977614470655717660

Myth becomes history:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1978245601424023745

The heart of religious belief:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1983021608907464968

The role of permanence:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1987036883109528039

The story of an Ethiopian hermit:
https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon/status/1991063994208018712

Follow Panoptikon Photography for the project's latest entries!

On the Island again…
09/11/2025

On the Island again…

This is the second part of Panoptikon Photography's project which began in late-November of 2024. Below is a link lea...
07/14/2025

This is the second part of Panoptikon Photography's project which began in late-November of 2024. Below is a link leading to the longer essay format posts on Instagram that analyze, break down, and seek to explain the nature of sacred spaces.

Instagram allowed for more in-depth exploration into this subject and many aspects of these places are explored such as time, architecture, symbolism, iconography, art, politics, cosmology, philosophy, metaphysics, and more. There are over 30 Instagram posts so far in this series and all are welcome to read the essays and enjoy the photography which was all shot on location by Panoptikon Photography.

Loose the bonds of the secular and everyday and transcend into the realm of the eternal, the absolute, the omnipotent, the perfect, and, in short, the divine...

https://www.instagram.com/panoptikon.photography/saved/places-of-worship-essays-and-posts/17959363715810242/

The Twitter ('X') part of can be accessed through this link...

https://x.com/i/bookmarks/1944141431196856455

This is a Panoptikon Photography project that has been running on Twitter ('X') since the end of November last year. It...
07/13/2025

This is a Panoptikon Photography project that has been running on Twitter ('X') since the end of November last year. It is called and it is a dissection and analysis of sacred spaces around the world and through time.

The sacred is an element of human life as old as our very species. This project looks at houses of faith, temples, shrines, monasteries, mosques, cathedrals, churches, and more from the ancient, medieval, and modern world with a discerning eye and the aim of unpacking the sheer gravitas and ethereal delight that people have always associated with houses of religion.

This is the Twitter folder of tweets on the subject. So far there are over 90 tweets but this number will grow. Each post features 4 photos of religious sites and a short written section about some aspect of them. Enter the realm of the divine and have a look!

https://x.com/i/bookmarks/1944141431196856455

…Inside a “Dagoba” in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. 🇱🇰
07/10/2025

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Inside a “Dagoba” in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
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The city of Cuenca, in southern Ecuador, is known for its profusion of . There are some 53 of them, of varying size an...
02/17/2025

The city of Cuenca, in southern Ecuador, is known for its profusion of . There are some 53 of them, of varying size and design, in the city's downtown historic district and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a result. Cuenca itself has the feel of an island of the Old World comfortably roosted in the Highlands of Ecuador. It is a city for quiet evening walks; having a coffee at a boutique hotel; and tracing the colors of twilight along the brick and plaster facades of its dozens of churches and cathedrals.

What follows here is a on these houses of God throughout the city...

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/panoptikon.photography/

Twitter: https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon

While traveling through the Highlands of southern Ecuador I often found myself in a vehicle and unable to stop and set u...
02/17/2025

While traveling through the Highlands of southern Ecuador I often found myself in a vehicle and unable to stop and set up for a camera photo. I always did insist on snapping away with my cell-phone as the stark, windswept, rocky, and broken demanded to be photographed. What follows here are images of that unforgiving yet stunningly beautiful region...

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/panoptikon.photography/

Twitter: https://x.com/PhotoPanoptikon

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