Posted Oct 21, 2005

All photos by Bruce Rowles

Name: Bruce Rowles

Hometown: Whistler BC

Favourite cartoon character: The Silver Surfer

Breakfast of champions or devour champions for breakfast: Don't usually eat breakfast.

First camera: Canon TLB I think.

So Bruce, we bumped into you at the World Premiere of Jib Culture's first film - "Disturbing the Piste". I guess you worked on the film with videographer Paul Cotton, what was your role?

Shooting stills and artistic direction.

And we've seen you and Paul 'Goldilocks' Cotton partner up before, for that killer slide media presentation - "Images From a Disturbed Mind". That was a pretty unique show, can you give us the lowdown?

I won the first Pro Photographer Search at the WSSF, and since then, I had wanted to do a show that moved, and was going to hold a viewer's eyes to the screen from beginning to end. The improvements to computer software have opened up so many possibilities, that I could take what I had in my mind, and build it in the computer. All I was missing was the computer expertise to put it together properly, and that's where Paul came in. Paul is very good on the computer, he was easy to work with, and we put in long days to get it done. I was very happy with it, but if I did it all over today, it would be much better. The next one we do will blow people away.

With all these multi media projects on the go, is this your new gig or is classic still photography your main passion?

It's all connected for me. It's all art, and it's constantly evolving.

Any exciting projects on the go right now? If you told us would you have to kill us?

There's always something on the go, but I'd rather wait until I know it's going to work before talking about it.

I've seen loads of awesome ski pics of yours (cause I'm a skier and mindlessly only look at ski photos) but do you dabble in lots of other photography or is skiing your mainstay?

I take pictures of anything I find interesting. A lot of my favorite shots are of bugs, lifestyle, people, etc., but no one gets to see many of those, as I'm not in the right market to sell those sort of shots. Once my website is finished and is up and running, I will be able to show people some of my other photos, plus the computer art I've been doing. It's www.brucerowles.com, coming soon.

If you found a digital camera in the gondola and weren't able to return it to lost-and-found until the end of the day, what would you do with it in the meantime?

That would depend on the mood I was in. I'd probably review the memory card, and see if the owner had a sense of humour, and take it from there.

And the question I just can't get enough of... If you could smuggle a camera into any event/ location/ scenario on the planet, where or what would it be?

I can think of a few places, but none of them that I'm very likely to get out alive after.

Any thanks...

My family, my friends, the companies, magazines and individuals that purchase my images, and this fragile blue marble we live on.

For more of Bruce's photos and photo art, visit his brand spankin' new website that's COMING SOON-- It should be out later in October. www.brucerowles.com