2022 Newmarket Juried Art Show

Best Photography Award My black and white photograph titled Jack’s Video Sports Bar received the Best Photography Award in the 2022 Newmarket Juried Art Show. The same photograph was also a Single Image Winner in the Black & White Magazine Single Image Special Issue #131. Medium: Black and White Chromaluxe HD Metal Print Statement: Deindustrialization […]

The Bay Artist Studio Tour 2022

Julie and I are looking forward to participating in The Bay Studio Tour again this year. We really enjoyed meeting so many art lovers last year. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on over the past year.

Fine Art Metal Photography Prints

The Life Through a Lens exhibition marks the first time I’ve printed on metal for an exhibition. Metal fine art prints have an incredible range of tones, from the deepest blacks to brilliant whites, with extraordinary presence and incredible depth and dimensionality. The print surface is 1.14mm thick aluminum and is float mounted, appearing to hover off […]

RMG Exposed 2018 – Good Vibrations

Bret Culp wins the Landscape/Nature Award at RMG Exposed 2018. My work was selected to be part of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s annual juried exhibition and live auction for the second time. The first was in 2012 with my black and white photograph, Dunluce Castle, below. The live auction was led by Stephen Ranger of Waddington’s […]

The Expanse VFX: Season 2

I’ve been working in the film and television business as an Artist, a Visual Effects Supervisor, Visual Effects Producer and a Second Unit Director for more than 25 years. As of this post I have contributed to 60 projects, see my IMDB listing here, many of which have been well enjoyed by viewers. The Tudors […]

Bret Culp Photography Summer 2015 Update

Welcome to my summer Bret Culp Photography update. In this installment, I’ll be discussing solargraphy, Milky Way astrophotography, time lapse, photo talks, workshops, magazine appearances, a podcast interview, new work and more. If you know someone who would be interested in this, please consider sharing it. All best, always,bret Solargraphy Photographs of Time, Space and […]

The Cheltenham Badlands Are Closed

Nestled unexpectedly within the idyllic Caledon Hills an hour north of Toronto lies a Martian landscape known as the Cheltenham Badlands. It has been one of my favourite photographic locations since I learned of it while on location for a television show in the late ’90s. During my initial visit, I knew that there were […]

Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival 2015

Norman Felix Gallery, Toronto, Canada May 1 to 31, 2015 Opening Night: May 7, 2015 (6pm – 2am) I’m in a group show for the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival again this year. CONTACT is the largest photography event in the world, and a premiere cultural event in Canada.It stimulates excitement and discussion among a diverse […]

Revival of Landscape Photography

Image Ages Magazine Landscape Photography Issue A selection of my work and a question and answer interview was featured in the landscape photography special issue of Image Ages Magazine, a photography publication from Hunan, China. The front cover, left, portrays the surrealistic photography of Luis Beltran. The article about my work is entitled Humanism. The […]

Step By Step Milky Way Photography Tutorial (Updated 2020-12-08)

This is a relatively simple astrophotography tutorial that will help you create stunning photographs of the Milky Way galaxy using your current photo equipment and image stacking. About the Milky Way The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy approximately 120,000 light-years in diameter and containing about 200 billion stars, of which our sun is one. […]