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.
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!!!!)…
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.
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 …
