Humpback
Humpback whale.
Photo by Alex Harris/ Raincoast Conservation Foundation. 
Photo by Alex Harris/ Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
Author: Alex Harris
Alex’s love for photography began at age 10 when a photo she took of a Blue Heron won her a big shiny ribbon at a fall fair. In her early teens she spent her weekends making music videos with friends and in her late teens she found herself in a niche of shooting fancy wine tastings. At 22, she ventured into her first documentary about the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. After touring it around the West Coast she realized the power film and photography holds in sharing stories and was hooked.
On hope
…Hope is a state of mind, not of the world.
It is an orientation of the spirit and orientation of the heart;
it transcends the world that is immediately experienced and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons.
Hope, in this
Habitat connectivity project on Fraser Estuary – documenting the second phase
Tomorrow I head back to the Fraser Estuary with Raincoast Conservation to document the second phase of our habitat connectivity project which involves creating breaches in a hundred year old jetty.
The jetty blocks salmon smolts from reaching safe, marshy …
Mushroom spores
Poof !
Photo by Alex Harris and Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
Orange
Fungi.…
Birds nest fungi
Birds nest fungi on a fir cone.
Photo by Alex Harris.
Spectacular fishing
I love bears.…
Inky caps
Inky caps.…
Watching bear fish
Watching bears fish all day was surreal.
We were lucky enough to be guided by Marven Robinson, a renowned guide from the Gitga’at Nation, to one of their bear watching platforms. He knows so many of the bears by name …
Grizzly under trees
Grizzly under trees.…
Kitlope lake
This is Kitlope lake. I had the extreme privilege of going here to do some work for Raincoast Conservation.⠀
It was the most incredible place I’ve ever been to. Every corner we turned was astonishing. I saw grizzlies for the …
A magical place
The Kitlope is one of the most magical place I’ve been. …
Bunchberry
Bunchberry.…
A week in the Kitlope
I feel extremely humbled and changed after a week in Xenaksiala territory in the Kitlope.
This is the largest untouched temperate rainforest in the world. We saw grizzlies and humpbacks for the first time along with so many amazing plants, …
Misty seeking chinook in the Fraser Estuary
Misty MacDuffee finding lots of chinookies!!
In the Fraser Estuary with Raincoast Conservation doing more field samples to see if the 3 breaches they made in the Steveston Jetty were helping young salmon access marshy habitats (hint: they were!!!!)…
Sword fern
May we unfurl and expand like the sword fern do.…
Happy Earth Day
Happy Earth Day! I love this place.
…We have every single day this possibility, this chance of discovering something new.
Paulo Coelho
Red squirrel
Wuddup, little red squirrel.
Photo by Alex Harris/ Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
Invasive garden slug
Invasive garden slug slinking among the haircap mosses with a outtake when a mosquito landed on its head and it’s eyes retracted back into its head because it was too cute.
Photo by Alex Harris.
Win for salmon in Fraser Estuary
Within a month, juvenile salmon are already making their way through the breach Raincoast Conservation created in a jetty in the Fraser Estuary. A huge win for salmon who now have direct access to marshy habitats instead of being pushed straight out …
A raptor in the Fraser Estuary
Field research day with Raincoast conservation. So many birds in the Fraser Estuary.…
Cedar cones
…The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.
Carlos Castaneda
Beginning the Steveston Jetty
Great to see restoration of industrial landscapes to give juvenile salmon a chance to access the marshy habitat in the Fraser estuary.
…“This week we break new ground…literally! Raincoast has now begun construction of three breaches of the Steveston Jetty.
Turkey tail
Turkey tail nurse log.
…We see trees, what more do we need?
Maira Kalman