Image Galleries

Mike Grandmaison’s timeless and exquisite landscapes and inspirational, intimate views of the natural world may be viewed via a number of different themes in Portfolios or Galleries to make it easier to view the images based upon your specific needs.

Earthscapes offers a discriminating selection of Canada’s diverse, far-flung, awe-inspiring vistas. Canada’s landscapes are compelling, cherished, and held in high esteem by visitors from around the world. This collection features varied landscapes from our unique National and Provincial Parks, the majestic Canadian Rocky Mountains, colorful prairie-scapes, peaceful and dreamy lakes scenes.

Waterscapes features our pristine waters. Water provides the Earth with the capacity to support life. It is crucial to our health and comprises, literally, the majority of our body mass. Water is music to the ear, a canvas to the eye, mesmerizing to the mind, and soothing to the soul. Immerse yourself in views of silky waterfalls, abstract reflections, and tranquil, meditative ponds.

Skyscapes is a showcase of the vast, constantly-changing heavens and cloudscapes that frame our great land. The pure air of our countryside affords a clarity to our vistas that is unsurpassed. Be dazzled by interesting cloud formations, exquisite light, and wonderful sky phenomena—including our infamous northern lights. This is truly the “Land of the Living Skies.”

Botanical provides intimate depictions of the fascinating plant life to be found in our vast, varied land. Look up close inside multicolored blossoms, intimate leafy patterns, and tiny, dewy abstract worlds.

Wildlife offers a collection of portraits of Canadian creatures, great and small, rare and common. It typically features wildlife in their natural environment. Sharing those exquisite moments when we encounter fellow beings from the animal kingdom in the wild is one of the most privileged moments we can experience.

Trees and Forests is a celebration of our life-sustaining companions. Trees beautify our surroundings, purify our air, act as sound barriers, and manufacture precious oxygen. They affect our climate by moderating the effects of the sun, wind and rain. Trees provide shelter for wildlife and they also act as a carbon sink by removing carbon dioxide from the air and storing it as cellulose in their trunks, branches, and roots. Last but not least, trees also provide us with inspiring subject matter for our art. This collection features trees in all seasons and from a wide variety of habitats.

Magestic Mountains features Canada’s high places from the iconic Canadian Rocky Mountains in the West to the more subtle but no less impressive weathered mountains from Eastern Canada. From glorious mountain peaks bathed in early morning light to deep gorges and canyons, this portfolio offers some of the finest mountain scenery no matter the season.

Prairiescapes is a medley of wide open spaces and quiet, prairie land. Far from boring, the land abounds with form, shape, texture and colour, often found in subtle plains and valleys but sometimes in surprisingly bold land forms like coulees and badlands. Prairies are some of the most intriguing lands in the country.

Farmscapes is an assortment of prairie lands that have been transformed to comprise the bread basket of this nation. Much of this land is devoted to animal husbandry, grain and other crops but, depending on the season, these lands can also offer a kaleidoscope of colour to the eye.

Intimate Views offers unique, artful renderings that are truly one-of-a-kind. This collection includes small scenes, details of nature and abstracts of the natural world that, without a horizon, become so much more personal and revealing.

Panoramas unveil wide, unbroken views of Canada’s varied landscapes. While the visual field of the human eye spans approximately 120 degrees, the central field of vision for most people covers an angle of between 50° and 60°. These sweeping vistas reveal the wide open spaces that this country is well known for.

Abandoned is collection of nostalgia and a look at some of our long-lost heritage. From rural structures to farming implements and ghost towns, these images remind us of an earlier life and, for a moment, invite us to imagine what kind of stories lie behind each of these images.

Winter Wonderland is a potpourri of what Mother Nature throws at us when it cloaks much of this country in a blanket of snow. Different parts of Canada are frequently and magically transformed when snow and ice simplify the landscape for part of the year. From hoarfrost covered trees and grasses, to sparkling ice lit by golden light to captivating sun dogs, explore our frosty wonderlands.

Hand of Man offers a glimpse at some of the marvels in building design that we can find in different parts of the country. Every city has its own architectural gems and Winnipeg is no exception. From The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, to the Esplanade Riel Bridge, to the Église du Précieux-Sang, these architectural masterpieces have transformed the built environment and enriched our urban lives. Discover the wide variety of lighthouses, grain elevators, covered bridges, churches and barns that dot the Canadian landscape.

People in the Landscape is an eclectic collection of photographs of the human species interacting in the natural environment, along with images of boardwalks, docks, Muskoka chairs and more.

Black & White explores the world of line, shape, form, and texture in monochromatic splendour. Nature’s palette is transformed into subtle shades of grays or extreme contrast of black & white, allowing us to explore the world in ways that most of us are not familiar with.

Transformed is treasure-trove of images of different subject matter that have been metamorphosed to reveal new possibilities including the use of texture overlays, multiple images, altered color and various techniques such as the Orton technique to name a few. The ‘Orton technique’ was named after Canada’s very own, Michael Orton.

Small But Precious is a plethora of quaint and often common, everyday subjects that transcend the commonplace to become quirky, distinctive or eccentric.

Polyptychs is series of images that, together, complement and enhance each other. When combining 2, 3 or more images, the new creation often becomes greater than the sum of its parts.