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05/25/2026

Hi! If you’re looking for something to watch, head over to my YouTube channel. There’s a whole urban wildlife series called Edge Of Frame you can check out. It was so damn fun to make and even more fun to watch! Enjoy.

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04/10/2026

!!!!! Over the past several months I have had the absolute pleasure of working with and on a new project. You probably know them from their remarkable documentary and series All Too Clear. I’ve been working with them on a new crazy awesome series called Hidden Below. This project is a basically like a Blue Planet treatment of the Great Lakes. What we’ve captured so far has been mind blowing. Head over to to get all the info and updates.

03/27/2026

Happy home opener! A few months back I did a shoot with for . I’ve worked in sports media and broadcast for a very long time. It was basically my first job and I only really stopped doing it a few years ago. This photoshoot was a step back into the sports world. I’ve worked with a lot of professional athletes and I can say without a doubt that Ernie is the nicest and kindest pro athlete I’ve ever met. He wasn’t just easy to work with - his energy made the day better. He was amazing with everyone on the crew and anyone else hanging around the practice facility. What a gem.

Go Jays Go!

This shoot was for . Go check them out. They make great stuff.

02/18/2026

The ice was friendly today. The fog? Not so much. Peter and I stayed safe a dry-ish so it was a good day over all.

02/05/2026

Sending out this little field report. We’re about mid way through. Things have been incredible. Here’s what our work looks like. Lots more photos and video to come.

Thanks for the amazing under ice stills.

01/20/2026

This is crazy. I have been included in this year’s Explorers Club 50 class, which is the “Fifty People Changing the World that the World Needs to Know About.” This is in recognition of the citizen science ice diving initiative that started 4 years ago. By the very nature of this project, it’s not a solo endeavour. The whole thing got started with a chat with . We thought it would be interesting to see if we could get divers to collect fresh water algae samples from the ice bottom. This was an insane idea. It was hard, dangerous and had never been done. It turns out the best way to do something crazy hard is to find the best people. Which we did. The list of divers, engineers, filmmakers, scientists and citizen scientists that have volunteered to help on this project is incredible. In future posts I will be focusing on these team members, but the earliest days were made possible by Dale McKnight, Richard Notter, and (who’s in this photo). was a fantastic sounding board and I’m very excited she’ll be joining us this year.

We’ll be continuing this work in Lake Simcoe in the coming weeks. I’ll be sure to share pics and videos from that adventure as it happens.

A huge thank you to the organizations that made this all possible:

The Consecon Foundation

The Martineau Foundation

11/23/2025

I’ve been learning how to see with new eyes. This isn’t some kind of poetic diatribe about seeing the world through the eyes of a child. My eyes have been crap since I was a teenager. I’ve survived with glasses and contacts for most of my life and that’s often been a struggle with diving and photography. I’m not a good candidate for laser. I had just accepted that vision would always be a struggle and I mentioned as much to my buddy Dr. ._.2020 . He recommended Ortho-Ks, which I hadn’t heard of previously. Basically these are hard contacts you wear over night. They mold your eyes so you don’t need to wear anything in the day to support your vision. I’ve been using these for a few months now. While there are some down sides (worse night vision and a slight overall decrease in sharpness), I’ve really enjoyed the results.

Because of this change I’ve had to relearn how to shoot both photo and video. Looking at a screen a few inches from my face or using the viewfinder has become a different experience. I don’t entirely trust what I’m seeing yet, and it’s taking me sometime to sort this all out. An example of this is when I saw a Copper’s hawk land in a tree not too far from me. It was backlit and so I was working off a silhouette.

I could not figure out why its tail feathers were on backwards. “Is this an injury? An abnormality?”

Once I looked through my viewfinder, I quickly realized the bird had cranked its neck 180 degrees to take a lazy look at the photographer with the poor vision.

I guarantee you without a long lens, that bird could have counted my eyebrows.

How great it would be to have the eyes of a hawk.

11/20/2025

I’ve been on the road a lot and just generally busy with life, so I haven’t been able to shoot much for myself. When plans fell through yesterday, I took the opportunity to go out and visit a few of my favourite spots. I didn’t have much of a plan, and just wanted to get out there. I came across this heron along a beautiful little river. The water was calm and the last light of the day made all the colour seem soft.

10/28/2025

An amazing first day with the team and . Loads of awesome footage and fish behaviour.

fellows get things done.

10/14/2025

It’s still crazy warm out, but that doesn’t mean we can’t practice for winter diving. and I got together for a nice little team building dive over the weekend in Brockville in preparation for an upcoming expedition. Jill had her camera and took some fun photos while we were splashing about.

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