Calgary Stampede Parade 2023

Alberta Ghostbusters

55 members province wide, Alberta, Ghostbusters had a record-breaking 25 members and attendance for last weeks stampede parade.

Alberta Ghostbusters is a nonprofit charity which supports many local efforts. Focusing on children and families, including the Alberta Children’s Hospital.

Ghostbusters showed up in all fighting regalia including cowboy hats and dancing boots. Ghostbusters showed up in all fighting regulia including cowboy hats and dancing boots. It was such a priviloge to document this 2023 parade

t was such a priviloge to document this 2023 parade for the amazing Alberta Ghostbusters!!

WHO YOU GOING TO CALL?

Bailey & John

San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico- June 2022

ADHD reWired Presents Episode 376: Crash Landings and Recovery with Leya Russell

I’m so excited and grateful to be welcomed back onto the ADHD rewired podcast.

Check out ADHD reWired Presents Episode 376: Crash Landings and Recovery with Leya Russell

Listen to the full interview, as well as, view supporting images from the conversation with Eric Trivers.

It does somehow seem lucky that this interview almost perfectly coincides with the two-year anniversary of my plane crash in Myanmar.

Thanks so much!!!!!

Please Enjoy!

Leya

The Center for Disability in Development- Bangladesh

www.cdd.org.bd/

Full Podcast Episode

www.adhdrewired.com/crash-landings-and-recovery-with-leya-russell-376

The Amazing Community of ADHD reWired

www.adhdrewired.com

Magpie Cove - Studio

www.magpiecove.com

East Village Artistic Patio Program

Secret Gardens

SHOW UP AND PROVOKE RADIANCE

Leya Russell is a local artist, photographer, and avid gardener. She earned her BFA from the U of C in 2011 and established her collaborative art studio Magpie Cove in 2017. 

Concept

A large expressive wildflower meadow will be the street view of the patio. All varieties included are part of the city’s wildflower seed giveaway. 

The inside of the patio will be transformed into sections of flowers/plants representing the rainbow. 

All plants included will be local and sustainable varieties.

Clear movable partitions will enclose tables and immerse patrons in whimsical spaces. 

Each garden will include an individual QR code linking to information about those specific plants.

This exhibition will celebrate the vibrant diversity and biodiversity of the City of Calgary.

Lindsey & Shane

Congratulations!! I love you all so much!! I could not be more happy for you!!!!

Rangefinder Photo of the Week Freature

I am so grateful to share not only am I coping with my fear of flying, and actually go on a plane to Las Vegas this weekend to attend WPPI but I had the honor to meet with @jacqueline.tobin of @rangefindermag and she featured one of my images from Bangladesh as Rangfinder’s Online’s Photo of the week, today. To say I am so grateful and completely over the moon is an understatement!

See Article Here

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LEYA RUSSELL PHOTOGRAPHY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS WITHOUT BORDERS PRESENTS CDD BANGLADESH 2019

 
Only two year ago, little Samira, who suffers with C.P. could not even sit up on her own. Today with therapy provided through the CDD, she is walking unaided and can even help her mother with chores around the house- like chopping vegetables seen he…

Only two year ago, little Samira, who suffers with C.P. could not even sit up on her own. Today with therapy provided through the CDD, she is walking unaided and can even help her mother with chores around the house- like chopping vegetables seen here!!!

I am so honoured and grateful to call myself a Photographers Without Borders Storyteller. The work that PWB does around the world in countless countries not only saves lives but, as I have actually seen here in Bangladesh gives a life, and dignity back to some of the most vulnerable. PWB projects cover a vast scope of issues facing not only developing but all nations and groups covering things like, poverty, climate change, education, healthcare, sanitation, accessibility and disability. This is but a brief summary of a fraction of work I witnessed the with the Center for Disability in Development in Bangladesh, April & May 2019. Having the honour to work for both PWB and the CDD has been the most motivational and inspiring thing I have even done in my life. I have so many stories of strength and incredible power of love in action, I cannot wait to share them all with you. Onek Dhonnobad - Many, Many Thanks from the very bottom of my heart.

Leya

To find out more for yourself

Photographers Without Boarders- https://www.photographerswithoutborders.org/

Center for Disability in Development- https://cdd.org.bd/

One of the amazing projects I had the pleasure to have been assigned is focused on deaf children. It is incredible what we are capable of doing when given the right supports and opportunity! Watching Hanayed, 10 years old, dance gave me goose bumps!…

One of the amazing projects I had the pleasure to have been assigned is focused on deaf children. It is incredible what we are capable of doing when given the right supports and opportunity! Watching Hanayed, 10 years old, dance gave me goose bumps!! This thanks to the hard work and dedication of CDD and her sister organizations, amazingly persistent field workers, families, communities and local governments. To say that I am inspired is an understatement!!

A Wedding to Remember

Riding the Wave with Donya & Khalid

I cannot adequately express the energy and love; the genuine experience of really being present together, to be a small piece in a huge community- 650 guests, give or take a few. The feeling of love and support hung thick in the Coast Plaza Ballroom and could be felt all the way into my core. Donya and Khalid's wedding celebration centred around family, food, and community. Focused on the expression of love and joy through dance, song, and prayer :) 

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