2021

The new year started off with a trip to the hospital, with a mild heart attack, but am fully recovered now and back to normal. Too bad the world is not normal yet…Can’t travel out of the country. The years travel plans were limited to Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, White Rock and a week in the Okanagan (Who needs to travel far anyway, we have so much beauty here!) in September. Some new photos are from these trips in the Most Recent Photos Page. Am using a new Sony A6000 mirrorless camera now, along with my Canon and my Huaweii P20 Pro phone camera, and I like it a lot! Enjoy the photos and if you are interested in any I can put them on a greeting card or make an enlargement for you. (Very reasonable prices!). Let me know in the contact page. Thank you!

Taavi

2020

Without getting into all the craziness that went down this past year, I was actively out and about with camera usually at my side or, in the case of my phone camera, in my hand. Highlight of the year was an RV trip Shireen and I took in September to the Okanagan for two weeks. It was nice to see the area again after 30 years or so, and despite the dense forest fire smoke the first week, some technical issues with our RV, we had a great time! We biked part of the Kettle Valley Rail trail in Myra Canyon above Kelowna, checked out the areas Shireen used to live (Penticton, Lake Country, Kelowna) and generally played tourist in Osoyoos-Oliver area, and explored Border country towns of Rock Creek and Greenwood. We also took a local trip to Tofino-Ucluelet in July, as Shireen had never been there and it is such a beautiful place, especially the Great Pacific Trail! Lots of good photo-ops! Some of the photos are now published on the website, hope you enjoy them!

Taavi

January 2021

New stuff coming..

New photos and new categories will be posted soon, 2017 was a travel year with trips to Manning Park, Oregon, and California including Joshua Tree N.P.!

My first art show

Coworkers, friends and family, who have always been very supportive, also attended. It was a very positive experience and I look forward to more shows in the future!

Of course I couldn’t have done it without the help and support from my wonderful girlfriend, Shireen, and I want to give her a bigs THANKS for all your creative ideas and input for the show!

Fallen leaves at Witty's Beach

I had already taken some nice photos around Witty’s Lagoon on a foggy fall day, and was returning up the steps to the parking lot. My camera was already stowed away for the climb back when I looked down on the steps and saw the leaves which had fallen recently.

I thought, I was just going to step all over them, but saw how nice they looked and thought how they would all disintegrate in a few weeks and would be gone. So I took the shot and later when I had looked at it, thought it turned out OK.

I try to always look around me when I’m on a photo shoot/hike, but this was one time when just looking down as I was walking paid off!