On a beautiful sunny day on August 10th, 2024, a small group gathered at the “C” Force Memorial Wall (a.k.a. The Defence of Hong Kong Memorial Wall) at King Edward Drive and Sussex Drive to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the end of fighting in the Far East during World War II and also to…
To see the pictures, CLICK HERE: The Flying Legends of Victory Tour made a stop at the Gatineau Executive Airport this weekend in conjunction with Vintage Wings of Canada. The tour is part of the Commemorative Air Force – Arizona Wing, based in Mesa, Arizona, which has a similar mission to Vintage Wings in that…
To see all the pictures from the ceremony, CLICK HERE: In the Lebreton Gallery of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, amid the tanks and other implements of war, history was made with the appointment of General Jennie Carignan as the first woman Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) for Canada on July 18th, 2024. In…
To see all the pictures from the game, CLICK HERE: I was recently asked to attend the Atlético Ottawa football game (re:soccer), on the 28th June, 2024, to provide photographs for the Coding for Veterans (C4V) organization which helps veterans achieve certifications in cybersecurity, data analysis, computer coding, and a host of other cyber disciplines….
If you were downtown Ottawa or around Petrie Island on Wednesday afternoon, you may have thought Ottawa was the target of an airborne invasion. Not true however. What was happening is that the RCAF was doing a practice run of the Canada Day Flypast on Parliament Hill. To see pictures of the take-offs and landings…
To see all the pictures from this event, CLICK HERE: For 35 years Korea had been a Japanese colony and had suffered at the hands of the Japanese all that time and especially during WWII. After WWII, a line was drawn at the 38th parallel making two occupation zones: the North controlled by Russia and…
Just so everyone doesn’t think that the only thing I photograph are remembrance ceremonies, I thought I’d share a couple of pictures from a recent shoot I did for Xcalibur Smart Mapping who have their headquarters in Madrid, Spain, but also have offices in 13 other countries including Ottawa in Canada. In Ottawa they fly…
To see the pictures from the ceremony, CLICK HERE: D-Day. The 6th of June, 1944. The Day that was the start of the end of WWII. Eighty years ago this mass undertaking, the largest seaborne invasion in history, known as Operation Neptune (the entire Normandy Campaign was known as Operation Overlord), started in Northern France…
On April 1st, 1924, the air elements of the Canadian military became the Royal Canadian Air Force reporting to the Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Militia (Army) at the time. It wouldn’t be until 1930 that the RCAF would become a fully independent element and report directly to the Minister…
To see all the pictures from this event, CLICK HERE: When one mentions “D-Day”, no further explanation is required as the day and its meaning is ubiquitous and requires no explanation. Everyone knows that on June 6th, 1944, the Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, opening up the second front of the war…
