Gold Rush Women's T-Shirt

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Barkerville was the centre of the Cariboo gold rush in British Columbia in the 1860s, and played a large part in the decision to have the province join the Canadian confederation.

This collage was created using five original colour photographs I took when I worked in Barkerville as the manager of the old-time theatre many years ago. I have aged the images to look like photos of the era and put them together over a wooden texture, implying a rustic table. The gold is indeed real!

I began photography with a Brownie camera my parents gave me as a child sometime in the 1950s. In the 1970s I finally graduated to an SLR and actually won a few contests, then took a hiatus through the 1990s but picked up digital photography in earnest in the mid-2000s. Now, many years later, it still excites me to venture out and try to find what the world is all about in my own way through this wonderful medium. To me, photography is about capturing the hidden meaning, the emotion, and the invisible in a given moment in time. It transcends mere composition and lighting. When it's done well, we sit up and take notice, we pause over an image, and if everything is perfect, we might even feel that slight tingling up the spine. While I try...