Scott Murphy

First Ice – Haskin’s Point

Metal staircase leading into thin ice on the Rideau Canal at Haskin’s Point, Seeley’s Bay, photographed in winter.

Early winter stillness settles across Haskin’s Point as the Canal begins to freeze. A mindful observation of changing seasons and inner recovery, part of Meditations on the Rideau, exploring the landscape as a place of transition and healing.

Happy Accidents

Historic stone mill on the Rideau Canal captured as a pinhole photograph

A soft, imperfect pinhole photograph of Watson’s Mill became an unexpected favourite. A moment where the past and present briefly coexist, a happy accident.

First Journal Cover Published: Supporting Military and Veteran Health Through Photography

Silhouetted figure walking toward daylight at the end of a tunnel, representing military transition and recovery.

A photograph created during my transition away from military life has found a new home as the cover image for the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, Vol. 11, Issue 5 (2025).

(Open-access journal link in article)

Published in Rideau Reflections, Friends of the Rideau Newsletter

My Meditations on the Rideau project is featured in Rideau Rflections, the Friends of the Rideau newsletter, highlighting my analog photographic approach to the waterway.

First Snow, Open Water – Jones Falls

Medium-format digital photograph of the Lockstation at Jones Falls on the Rideau Canal, high detail in snow and water reflections, converted to black and white.

A quiet afternoon at Jones Falls, where the first snowfall had settled but the water remained open. Two long pinhole exposures, upstream and downstream, capturing stillness in the shoulder season along the Rideau Canal.

Windows and Mirrors

What is the nature of photography? One analogy, proposed by John Szarkowski, is that a photograph could be seen either as a mirror or as a window. In the first instance, such as with a self-portrait, it’s an expression of the photographer’s self. In the latter, such as a crime scene evidence photo, a photographContinue reading “Windows and Mirrors”

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