ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A scene of the Coquihala Valley in British Columbia from last summer during one of the worst fire seasons in recent memory. At this spot the thick, low smoke in the trees met the clouds that promised relief with the coming rain showers. That solo tree seemed to lean and stretch for those rain clouds.

AUTHOR
Steve Blackwell is a fine art and Documentary photographer from Western Canada. Steve’s images often focus on the rolling landscape of the Western Canadian prairie. His simple, often minimal, compositions present quiet intersections of this environment: the natural and the man-made, the mundane and the dramatic, the commonplace and the incongruous.

Steve’s work has been exhibited in Canada and the United States, published in LensWork and Black & White Magazine and recognized in several international photography competitions. He was a finalist in the 2018 Photo Lucida Critical Mass selections and second in the 2017 Emerging Photographer Showcase of the Exposure Photography Festival.

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