ABOUT
Northern Latitudes
Northern Latitudes began as a simple instinct — to pay closer attention to the natural world and find ways to share what that attention reveals. It has grown into a podcast, a photography project, and a place-based creative practice rooted in the forests, waterways, and wildlife of the Canadian Shield.
The name isn’t accidental. This is work made from a specific corner of the planet — Eastern Ontario, the Shield, the lake country north of the St. Lawrence — and that place shapes everything: the light, the subjects, the questions worth asking.
The Podcast
The Northern Latitudes podcast brings together scientists, writers, naturalists, and explorers for conversations about the natural world — how it works, what threatens it, and what it still has to teach us. The approach is straightforward: invite someone who knows something deeply, ask them to share it, and trust the audience to keep up.
Episodes have covered everything from satellite light pollution and Arctic fossil discoveries to honey bee colony health and wilderness solo travel. The common thread is curiosity — and a belief that the people doing the most interesting work in nature science and exploration deserve a wider audience.
The Photography
The photography started early — a single Kodachrome print from a summer afternoon beside a creek in Eastern Ontario, the bluest sky reflected in still water, cat-tails the greenest green. That 4×6 drug store print still sets the standard: images that feel like a place, not just document it.
Four decades later the camera has travelled further — Iceland, the Canadian Rockies, Lake Superior, the boreal north — but the instinct is the same. Find the light. Wait for it. Let the place speak.
Work has been recognized at YouPic, GuruShots, ViewBug, and Aminus3, including a YouPic Landscapes cover, a Top 100 finish in GuruShots’ Without Humans challenge, and multiple community and peer awards. The full gallery lives at YouPic. Images are available for licensing — contact [email protected].
The Place
Much of this work is anchored at Lake Higley — an off-grid property on the Canadian Shield near Charleston Lake Provincial Park in Eastern Ontario. The Shield rock, the mixed boreal forest, the water, the seasonal light — it’s both a subject and a home base. The hero image at the top of this site was shot from the tent deck there.
The Gear
A Nikon D7500 and a Samsung S23 capture most of the photography. Post-processing is done in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, with Snapseed for mobile work. Podcast recording runs through a simple Restream setup. Audio editing is done in Audacity. The tools are practical — the work is what matters.