Hello
I’m an Ottawa-based freelance photographer (Sony slinger) chasing noise, crowds, quiet moments, and chaos (controlled or otherwise). I do concerts, festivals, public events, urban, nature, social events, clubs, and crime scenes if the Ottawa Police will ever let me near one with my camera.
Saskatchewan Avalanche Watch exists for sudden events in places where nothing is supposed to happen. Saskatchewan—this is metaphorical.
Your kid’s birthday, weddings, retirement parties, and newborn baby photography aren’t my thing. No shade—just not my lane.
(Full disclosure: that’s not me in the picture.)
My Story
It all began in 2013 on Vancouver Island. I was volunteering with a local search and rescue unit when I noticed one of my volunteer peers ran a Facebook page documenting real earthquakes and sharing public alerts for seismic activity around the Pacific coast. Being mischievous (and slightly bored), I decided to create my own page: Saskatchewan Avalanche Watch. Because really—an avalanche service in a province so flat that even the borders are made of perfect 90-degree angles? Probably the least necessary emergency preparedness organization ever.
I used the page to post “alerts” about the avalanche risk in Saskatchewan—which was always, reliably, extremely low—and interact with his posts on his real world emergency page, confusing followers and causing playful chaos.
What started as a joke quickly took on a life of its own. As I got deeper into photography and realized I had no place to share my overexposed nightmares, that old fake emergency management page suddenly seemed perfect. Over time, it evolved from a cheeky prank into a photography portfolio—a lookout for unexpected moments, a record of chaos, crowds, and seismic activity (socially speaking). Saskatchewan may never see an avalanche, but here, the unexpected can always find a home.
I do this for love, not money.