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104 year's young | Back To The Land

104 year's young | Back To The Land

My encounter with Audrah was unexpected. I arrived in the small town of Minnedosa, a forty-minute drive North of Brandon. My spirits were high as I was finally out of mosquito and black fly riddled bogs. Before arriving, I was graciously offered an invitation to stay at a friend, relatives home, Gwen and Uncle Bob. Still wearing the same clothes after a week on the road, I desperately needed to see the inside of a shower. I think their hospitality was more pity than anything…

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90 Year Old Fisherman From Winnipegosis | Back To The Land

90 Year Old Fisherman From Winnipegosis | Back To The Land

The year is 2016. I’m leaving one province and venturing into the next. I welcome the change in landscape, trading the lush wild forests of Northern British Columbia for endless prairies and the cold lakes of Manitoba. I crossed the Saskatchewan Manitoba border from the North heading East on Highway 77. The sun was high, and the summer heat was already in the air days before officially starting. ..

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Another random encounter in BC's Kootenays

Another random encounter in BC's Kootenays

In the last week of September 2017, my wife and I decided to do a quick eight-day road trip to the West Kootenays; two reasons, explore some new areas of British Columbia and secretly I wanted to photograph more people for my Back to The Land project. My wife continues to give me evil eyes if I don’t even humour the idea of bringing her along. Like any trip, we stop where ever we can pitching a tent in lieu of a hotel, cook food roadside because we can, annoy each other when we are bored and always keeping a keen interest to explore the things we both enjoy. Our approach may be slightly different from some and our motto is simple; we stop if it feels good and we keep going if it doesn’t. For us, it’s about trusting our intuition and just letting it

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