Kas Stone - Photograph Galleries

Photo Gallery

Stones on Stone
In February 2011, Kas and David celebrated their family photographic tradition by mounting a print exhibition at the Northern District Public Library Gallery in Toronto. They enjoyed the opportunity to explore their favourite (one might even say "signature") theme together. While David's love of rocks finds expression most often in intimate portraits of rock patterns and textures, Kas delights in the bigger geological picture of landscape structures. Their exhibition is an intriguing mix of expansive scenics and closeup details, and they challenge you to tell whose photographs are whose, without looking at the captions.

Kas's father David purchased his first Box Brownie camera in the 1930s, embarking on a lifelong photographic journey that he shared generously with the next generation. Not surprisingly, Kas has always had a camera. However she resisted serious photography until about a decade ago when, in need of pictures to illustrate her writings, she began to put her camera to practical use. She quickly succumbed to the family passion, and a whole new career emerged. Today her photographs appear regularly in Canadian magazines, websites and fine art print exhibitions. She leads photographic and digital imaging workshops, and has been a popular presenter and judge with the Greater Toronto Council of Camera Clubs. Kas was the featured photographer in the Winter 2010 edition of Outdoor Photography Canada magazine.

The Galleries

Landscapes High and Low
This gallery is a collection of landscape images of a different sort -- mountains and valleys; forests and woodland trails; farm fields and wildflower meadows; streams, wetlands and waterfalls -- a sampling of the amazing variety that Canada has to offer.

Presentations
& Workshops

All photographs, text and
illustrations on this website
are, unless otherwise noted,
© Kas Stone 2002-2012.

Winter
How fortunate we are to live in the midlatitudes. Sometimes we grumble as the seasons come and go, forcing us to change our sandals for showshoes and our paddles for ski poles. Our inclination may be to retreat indoors and wrap ourselves around mugs of something comforting. Or perhaps we spend the season warming ourselves in the glow of our computers, wistfully re-living our summer's adventures on their monitors. Yet, for the intrepid few who venture out, what a treat awaits. A sparkling meadow, a glittering tree, an empty beach, a frozen lake, a spellbinding blizzard, a snow-muffled silence... and a dazzling fresh perspective on a familiar landscape.

Enjoying the Great Outdoors
The photos in this gallery need no explanation. They are simply a collection of family snaps and portraits of friends and strangers, people like ourselves doing what they do best -- having fun paddling, hiking, camping and enjoying the great outdoors.

The Human Landscape
Although the natural world is the usual focus for Kas's photography, she is intrigued by the graphic shapes of the urban landscape, and enjoys poking through city streets in search of unusual perspectives. During her backcountry travels she finds herself drawn to fishing villages, lighthouses, rustic farms and crumbling buildings with overgrown gardens -- the remains of former homesteads and abandoned ports, now returning to wilderness.

Coastal Landscapes
Between land and sea lies a fascinating realm, a transition zone where the elements of earth, water and air converge. Sometimes it is peaceful place, where water ripples across the sand and whaleback rocks slip gently beneath the surface. But at other times it thunders with violent activity, waves seething across shoals and hurtling boulders against cliffs. Photographically the shoreline is always exciting. Whether capturing the spray with fast shutter speeds to freeze wave action, or using neutral density filters to slow things down and turn the water into silk, the possibilities for creativity (and perhaps even a "soaker") seem limitless.

Fur, Feathers, Petals and Leaves
Wildlife photography is a highly specialized field. Successful practitioners boast expensive lenses and are endowed with exceptional patience. They will crouch silently for hours in a blind or lie uncomfortably in a bog, waiting for magic moments to unfold in the natural world. Kas confesses to having a short attention span and an often noisy canine companion, so she has no plans to quit her day-job and become a wildlife photographer. However she does occasionally surprise herself with acceptable shots of flora and fauna, so this is her gallery of fur, feathers, petals and leaves.

More Rocks and Rockscapes
When hiking across Canada's wild landscapes today, we tend to take for granted the features beneath our feet. We think of the rocks as solid and the topography as immutable. We forget the insignificance of human existence upon the Earth and the brevity of our own lifespans. In reality the landscape is the culmination of more than 4 billion years of the Earth's history. Every rock has a story to tell. In the twisted ribbons of gneiss on Georgian Bay's eastern shore we learn how continents collided more than a billion years ago. In the striking black diabase and red rhyolite along Lake Superior's northern shore we witness volcanoes erupting when the continent tried to tear itself apart. In the sparkling quartzite atop Killarney's hills we find sediments from an ancient ocean floor. And in the fossils along the Niagara Escarpment we meet our marine ancestors. Geology is never idle, and the stories continue beneath us. Perhaps it is no accident that Kas's surname is Stone!

Kelso Mountain Bice Race Posters
featuring Kas's photos

Finance Department
Arbor Memorial Services Inc.
Gallery of Kas's photographs

Convergence-13 Exhibition
of Fine Art Photographs,
May 9 - June 3, 2013