14 days on Sable Island: Day 4
Well today it rained all day. I haven’t even set foot outside, which is really odd for being out here. When I come to Sable, I usually spend most of the time outside and when I am cabin bound because…
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14 days on Sable Island: Day 3
Today the weather was warm but damp with fog for the whole day. We spent another day moving junk to be taken off the island, but I also got time for some photography. At around 5pm, I went for my…
14 days on Sable Island: Day 2
Today the weather was less cooperative on Sable than yesterday; windy, several heavy showers of rain and fog. Fortunately, I like that weather; it energises you, especially when you are outside all day in it. In a couple of days…
14 days on Sable Island – Day 1
As part of my work as a seal biologist, I spend two weeks in June each year on Sable Island. The purpose: catch adult grey seals and attach satellite GPS transmitters to track their movements at sea, and to receive…
Edward Weston on “Portraits in Photography”
“…to reveal the individual before his camera, to transfer the living quality of that individual to his finished print…Not to make road maps but to record the essential truth of the subject; not to show how this person looks, but…
Keep it or throw it? by Garry Winogrand
I visit Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia twice a year for my work as a research zoologist. Shooting images on Sable Island is just like shooting images on the street, except that there are no people, rather…