I was committed to a sunset shot a twenty-minute drive away from this location when I was struck by a desperate need to evacuate my bowels.

Worse still was the fact that I was a one-hour hike away from my vehicle and the nearest toilet was a 10-minute drive to the airport from my car.

If you're not familiar with the Faroe Islands, I can tell you that there are no trees or bushes to crouch behind and there were zero toilets available on the trail.

My options were to attempt an agonizing one-hour hike back to the grossly overpriced rental car or simply bespatter my pantaloons and accept the indignity of a long hike with besmirched breeches.

I chose the agonizingly painful option.

I confess I almost lost control several times as tears rolled down my cheeks and sweat covered my forehead in a war of wills with my own body.

I can't imagine what the passing hikers thought of this lone photographer, moaning and muttering to himself while shuffling along the trail with the smallest steps possible.

I am glad to report that I won the battle. But it was very close.

After an exquisite visit to the airport facilities, I decided to head to this very famous waterfall in the hopes of witnessing a lovely sunset.

Within 15 minutes of my arrival at Múlafossur, the sky lit up and continued to perform pyrotechnics for at least an hour, almost up until midnight.

I don't mind those days of extreme highs and lows when it ends on such a high.

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Gavin Hardcastle

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For two mornings I waited at Morants Curve to get this shot.

In all honesty I'd never really had much interest in shooting this place. I'd driven past a bunch of times and thought 'nah, it's a cliche', which it is.

But.... after this recent heavy snow I just couldn't resist. The conditions were so perfect and this winter wonderland was just begging to be photographed.

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Gavin Hardcastle

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One of the joys of shooting a timelapse is that you can easily put together a stunning star trails image from all of those lovely frames.

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Yesterday my buddy Brent Henderson and I ventured out to Fairy Lake on Vancouver Island to capture the very famous Fairy Tree.

We spent most of the day hanging around for some kind of light to happen but the magic didn't occur until blue hour when the mists rolled in.

This was shot from the road side but I did decide to get tatties deep in the water to get some different angles. I'll post those soon and see which one you prefer.

Not feeling to good today though so I really hope that lake water didn't give me something unpleasant to take away.

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Gavin Hardcastle - Fototripper

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There are places on this Earth that look like they were plucked straight out of a kids fairy tale story.

This ice cave in the East Kootenays of British Columbia is one of those magical places.

Reaching this cave involved a 2 hour hike through deep snow while carefully avoiding the treacherous snow shelf along the cliff edge to the canyon.

This was my second visit to the cave during the depths of that long winter and I decided to bring Brent along for the journey.

To say that he was blown away would be an understatement.

After about an hour of creating test shots I decided I wanted that human element in my image to provide more of a story as well as some much needed scale.

Brents bright orange jacket provided that pleasing warmth among so much coldness.

I had to shoot a long exposure while Brent carefully exhaled so that his breath caught in the light of his headlamp.

The entire scene reminded me of sci-fi movie 'The Thing' from 1982 which has always been one of my favourite films.

After a brilliant shoot we hiked back out of the canyon and all I could think about was the other half of my Subway sandwich patiently waiting for me in the car.

You can imagine my crushing disappointment when finally we arrived at the car starving and exhausted only to discover a rock hard frozen sub covered in ice crystals.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I ate it anyway.

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Gavin Hardcastle - Fototripper

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