When 2024 started off for me with two striking photos in one week, I had a feeling it was going to be a pretty stellar year.
The first was a powerful portrait of Julie Callaghan in her home. Her right hand had been partially amputated after she was hit by a train trying to help a man whose wheelchair was stuck on the tracks in Chilliwack in 2018. When I photographed her, she was about to lose her home as a result of not being able to work due to her injury.
Six days later I made my way over to a frozen slough, fingers crossed that there would be at least one person skating on the ice as the sun set. I found not one, but several people playing shinny on the slough that afternoon.
Other highlights this year included shooting the northern lights for the first time, being onboard the 'Photoship' with the rear hatch door wide open while flying, and creating a portrait of Maxim de Jong dangling from a climbing wall on the ceiling of his home (he created some of the world’s most advanced expandable space capsules right here in his Chilliwack facility).
Sometimes I never know what to expect at an event, like an Air Force veteran licking the icing off a sword seconds after he used it to cut a cake. And other times I don't even know what image I have until I'm editing them later, like the eye-opening photo I captured at a rugby game where one player's hand on another man's bottom appears a bit too personal.
These are just some of my most memorable and favourite images of 2024.
