selected galleries
cerne abbas
Photos of the quaint Dorsetshire village of Cerne Abbas, England, home of my grandparents and great-grandparents in the late 19th Century.
lake huron
A short, one-week project to highlight the beauty of the Lake Huron shoreline. Images are from just north of Kincardine, Ontario. All images taken with Camera+ on an iPhone 4 during the week of August 20-27, 2011.
paris
Images from several trips to the French capital over the past few years. Included are the usual tourist attractions, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Jardin des Tuileries, and Notre Dame, but I have also photographed further afield in Paris, including St. Germain, along the banks of the Seine, and the Champs-Élysées.
manitoba
Manitoba offers a wealth of differing landscapes: from the wilderness of northern Manitoba, to the province’s 100,000 lakes and their environs, and to the City of Winnipeg with its Old Market Square area – the old downtown – that was the economic engine of the West at the turn of the last century and through the Second World War.
saskatchewan
It is a significant challenge to photograph much of the landscape of Saskatchewan. The land is deceptive: the pancake-flat prairie around Regina, and the view of the near-endless sky that results, can make one think that the entire province is featureless. Yet not far from the flat grassland is a landscape that is far from boring.
cenotaphs
Throughout the British Empire, the end of the Great War began a short period of patriotic victory celebrations and a much longer period of sorrow and realization of the enormous numbers of dead and wounded. Few towns in Canada were untouched by the war, including even the smallest hamlets in rural Saskatchewan.
I am personally interested in cenotaphs not only because my father was a Canadian veteran of the Second World War – with Ontario’s Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment – but because they are interesting. Their construction reflects the attitude of the community and the designer or sculptor who created it. Some of these memorials embody the feelings of victory. Others, merely the act of Remembrance.
royal clipper
Photos from a fantastic 2023 holiday in Italy that included a 7-day sailing excursion down the Amalfi Coast on the Royal Clipper, a 432-ft five-masted clipper ship of the Star Clipper Line. Ports of call included Amalfi, Sorrento, Taormina, Lipari, and Sperlongo.
Saw your picture of the cenotaph in Waldron, Saskatchewan.
My great uncles were involved in the building of it, or at least collecting the funds for it.
I attended the 100th anniversary of the town and met a lady who lived there (summer only) and she was interested in who built it. I was always told my Great Uncles Henry and George Gilhooly who were the prime instigators. They along with my Grandfather, David Gilhooly, all served in the First World War, and lived in Waldron. All my family were born there. Both sides (my Grandparents) lived there. Anyway, nice to see that someone put up a proper base around the Cenotaph.
Gord Gilhooly, Brampton, Ontario.