Our first stop in Southern France was Marseilles.The French Riviera conjures up images of million dollar yachts, outrageously beautiful people, celebrities and fine living. We were seeing it our little Nissan Micra.

Alejandro Durán’s photographs are so intriguing they almost make me think that littering is a great idea. That is, until I realize that the beauty in waste has only been found through his selective eye and thoughtful arrangements. The colourful …

I’ve always got the P500 handyI bought the Nikon Coolpix P500 camera last May because of its 36x optical zoom.  I’ve used it for work and travel over the past six months and am happy with it.  Most of the summer and fall photos on this blog h…

Two ravens flying with purpose to a destination they alone knew, came straight at me from far out over the bay. Behind them the pale blue sky was tinged with mauve and pink at the horizon. The first sunless morning…

Yesterday the Sun set. And that’s okay. We’ll not see the Sun again here in town until the 6th of February. That curious tilt of the earth (23 1/3˚ if you’re interested) has carried the pole away from the Sun…

Jerome Liebling, Butterfly Boy, New York, 1949Sixty years ago this week, the Photo League fell victim to Cold War witch hunts and blacklists, closing its doors after 15 intense years of trailblazing – and sometimes hell-raising – document…

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. The temperature has dipped and this weekend our clocks on the West Coast will fall back an hour. The remaining multitude of colour that was once up in branches will tumble to [...]

At the conclusion of the Photolucida Critical Mass event in 2006, three photographers were awarded monographs, Hiroshi Watanabe, Sage Sohier and Louie Palu, for his photo-project Cage Call: Life and Death in the Hard Rock Mining Belt. For Palu, along w…

A bit about a great local place to snap your photos:

From the Boing Boing forum on Flickr come these photography quotations picked by forum readers: “Photography…it’s the easiest medium in which to be competent. Anybody with a point-and-shoot camera can take a competent picture. But it’s the hardest medium in which to have, to express, some kind of personal vision. Because there is no touch, [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. It’s a happy Halloween in Vancouver as I watch robots, Lego men, Sailor Moon, and plenty of pirates walk by this morning. I thought it would be fun to check out what [...]

I so cannot wait to be able to get safely closer to this iceberg, which will probably spend the winter locked in the ice near town. I know, I know, more iceberg photos. You’ll just have to tough it out.

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My3Boybarians, Life Rearranged

Arctic Bay froze yesterday, hopefully it will stay. If the calm weather remains, it will. Once again it is late from what I know as normal, the Thanksgiving Weekend. My understanding was normal used to be even earlier before I…

It looks as though there may be some sun shining tomorrow. It may be a good day for some photography at last.

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We’ve featured a lot of treehouses on TreeHugger, but the plans for this one are a little different: Ten cherry trees will be planted in a circle, and pruned and bent over time to form a unique, two story sculpture.

We’ve also got…

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This week, we received the sobering news that the Javan Rhino is officially extinct: The last of its species was killed by poachers for its horn.

We also have news on a hawk with a nail shot through its head, humpback whales making…