Portfolio
Selected aerial and landscape work
Aerial, real estate, commercial, landscape, wildlife and fine art.
71 frames from South Georgian Bay, in six categories. The aerial, real estate and commercial work is what gets booked; the landscape, wildlife and fine-art frames are where the eye that shoots it was trained, and most of them live here and nowhere else on the site. Filter by category, or open any frame full-screen.
Aerial
Flown on a Transport Canada pilot certificate: harbour towns at dusk, a shoreline curving toward the escarpment, a regatta on open water, a wrecked ship's frame lying in clear shallows. Canadian rules cap every flight at 400 feet, and the useful height is usually well under it, the one where a place and its surroundings both still read. The commercial side of this, for listings, construction sites and campaigns, is on the drone and aerial photography page.
Real Estate
Properties shot the way a buyer first meets them: the approach up the drive, evening light on the west face, the lot and what sits around it. Aerial and exterior coverage, with the drone and the ground covered in the same visit so the light and the season hold across the whole set. More on the real estate and aerial property photography page.
Commercial
Restaurants, storefronts, civic buildings and the working country around them: a patio under string lights seen from above, a red door at dusk, apple crates stacked outside a storage barn with the hillside behind. These are the frames a menu, a booking page or a seasonal campaign is built on. What a commercial session covers is on the commercial and tourism photography page.
Landscape
The region across a full year: canola in bloom beside a red barn, fog sitting in the Beaver Valley at sunrise, rain crossing an escarpment ridge, water pouring over an ice-rimmed weir in winter. Most of these windows last days rather than weeks, which is the practical argument for hiring someone who already lives inside the service area.
Wildlife
Mostly birds, and mostly patience: snowy owls working a winter field, an osprey returning to the nest as its chick calls, a bald eagle dropping onto river ice, sandhill cranes crossing a spring field, monarchs clustered along a bare branch. Long lenses, cold mornings, and a lot of time spent on something that may not turn up.
Fine Art
The frames that exist for their own sake: sunbeams breaking through a storm over open water, a full moon rising over the bay above autumn colour, the Collingwood grain terminal in black and white, a long-exposure study of sky and water at dusk. Pete holds seven accreditations from the Professional Photographers of Canada and the Master of Photographic Arts designation, and the judged record behind them is on the about page. Prints are sold through his print gallery.
Two kinds of work, one photographer
The frames Pete shoots for himself and the work clients pay for are not separate practices. Reading light before it arrives, knowing which mornings the fog sits in the valley, learning what a lens does at the far end of its range: that is where the judgement comes from, and it is the same judgement pointed at a listing, a resort or a construction site when the result has to sell something. Thirty-five years of practice sits behind both halves of this page.
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