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The islands of Canada's west coast hold countless secrets. Anyone who has ever hiked Vancouver Island's remote West Coast Trail, explored the intricate, majestic coves and beaches of the Gulf Islands, or stood in the great forests of the Queen Charlotte Islands will attest to their mystery and sublime beauty. Here is a rover's paradise, with the Pacific winds bringing continual change to a region rich with colour and teeming with life. The eye is struck by snow-capped mountain ranges bathed in delicate light and skirted by dense, old-growth forest. One finds pristine beaches that recall an earlier age of unspoiled nature, amazing congregations of wildlife, and some of the most magnificent views found anywhere. Aerial photographer Russ Heinl has spent years flying over Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the Gulf Islands, capturing their beauty on film. Armed with an artist's keen eye for detail and composition, and a master photographer's sense of colour and precision, he has managed to render the land and the sea in their myriad guises. The misty light that follows a marine storm finds its counterpoint in a brilliant mauve sunset. Foaming Pacific waves, and glistening white mountain slopes seem to belong to a world apart from the still, black waters and many hued autumn fields of the Gulf Islands. And yet they are all of a piece. Residents of the islands know that light - manifested in countless ways - is the key to this unique region of Canada. From the vantage of the eagle, Russ Heinl has captured undiscovered secrets, masterpieces of pattern and light.Join him on a flight of discovery. |
Foreward by Robert Bateman
Pipeline Books, 1994
114 colour plates.
Covers lightly scuffed, otherwise very good.
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