Urban recce run: Frogman in Rio
My recently acquired iPhone goes so well on these urban recce’s, it inspired me to start an occasional series (IContinue Reading
Author: J. Ashley Nixon
I make photographs, books and films exploring culture and natural heritage. I run Betula Books.
It’s never just an ordinary day at Connect Charter School: Directors cut
Capoeira experience for Grade 9 students at Connect Charter School, Calgary. © J. Ashley Nixon It was a privilegeContinue Reading
Chinook’s welcome winter wind
The Chinook winds of southern Alberta are a welcome sight to many, but maybe not all Calgarians. Flowing east offContinue Reading
North: a winter poem from Canada
NORTH Past industrial heartlands And prairie farms Out on the Great River Where the air is calm A bold DecemberContinue Reading
Light for the first night of a new year
“Keep the hoping machine going” (#19 in a New Years resolution list written by Woody Guthrie….with thanks to Ignacio forContinue Reading
13 pics from ’13
I selected 13 photos from my files as a look back over the year of 2013 that becomes history inContinue Reading
Snow sculptures below bleachers
Driving into the Stu Peppard car park last night, my attention was drawn to temporary snow sculptures, deposits from theContinue Reading
Puck toss
Winter is just getting going, officially, although it doesn’t seem like that, given the amount of snow fallen so far.Continue Reading
Setting sun on Christmas Eve in Calgary
Heading west through the suburbs of Calgary about 20 minutes after sunset. Merry Christmas all and everyone.
Floating head of a freedom thinker
This sculpture, created by Peter Shapiro (c. 1969) stands outside The Russia House in Washington D.C., a place where quiteContinue Reading
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