Author Archives: chris@chrisbolin.ca
Duck, Duck, Goose
I worked on a project for the Globe and Mail on a seasonal wildlife count of migratory ducks and geese that come up this way through Alberta. Enviorment Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Service in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife service survey duck populations on wetlands all over North America. The Waterfowl Breeding [...]
113th Annual Calgary Bull Sale
The 113th annual Calgary Bull Sale, the world’s oldest continuous consignment bull sale was held over two days in Calgary, Alberta on March 6 and 7th, 2013. As many as 500 ranchers and purebred producers from Western Canada and the United States attended the event to bid on Hereford bulls, Angus bulls, and other breeds. [...]
Calving Season in Alberta
Calving has begun at the Triple S Red Angus Ranch just west of Calgary, AB. The family ranch established in 1875 will have about 450 calves born on the property as spring calving season gets under way. Photo Story for The Globe and Mail
Calgary Regional Partnership
I have spent the last 6 weeks shooting for the Calgary Regional Partnership around the city of Calgary and 13 other neighbouring municipalities which form the Calgary region, a diverse group of communities with a population of 1.2 million people. Here are a few of my favourites that I shot as I travelled the Southern [...]
B17
I had the awesome opportunity to fly in a WWII B-17G Flying Fortress during its visit to Calgary for the 2012 Aviation Calgary Expo. “Sentimental Journey” came off the Douglas assembly line in late 1944 and served in the Pacific near the end of the war. The plane is displayed from late Fall to Spring [...]
