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BIFA 2024

Lake Vernon Morning

  • Photographer
    Rick Bogacz

Captured in the early morning on Lake Vernon near the town of Huntsville Ontario, Canada using a Canon 90D and 16-35 wide angle lens.

I have been adhering to an essentialist philosophy for most of my working life. As a journalist, I focused on removing what was unnecessary and leaving only what was crucial to telling a coherent, meaningful story. I later followed author Greg McKeown’s view that life is about challenging the core assumption of ‘we can have it all’ and ‘I have to do everything’ and replacing it with the pursuit of ‘the right thing, in the right way, at the right time’. Combined with the Japanese philosophy of Ma - the celebration of the space between things - my goal with photography is to evoke a calming es