WHO WE ARE

We’re a Whistler-based photography studio shaped by mountains and driven by travel. What started close to home expanded outward—new coastlines, unfamiliar places, different light. We create work that holds both. Printed in Canada with a focus on lasting quality. For those who value where they’ve been—and how it lives in their space.

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.”  – Steve McCurry  

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Person taking a photo with a Sony camera, wearing a black beanie and a grey t-shirt, in a mirror.

LINDSEY CANTWELL

Photography has been part of my life since I was old enough to flip through my grandfather's photo albums — meticulous records of every place he and my grandmother ever travelled. That careful attention to remembering stuck with me.

What started as documentation — a refusal to forget the good places and the good days — became something I couldn't put down.

I moved to Whistler at 18, chasing the mountain life I'd seen in ski movies and felt on the slopes of Mount Washington. Twenty years later I'm still here, still skiing, still shooting.

My work lives in the details most people walk past — chairlifts, morning light, the feeling of a run before anyone else is on it. I'm not chasing perfection. I'm chasing the moment just before you forget it.

That's always been enough.

A woman in a yellow dress walking a small dog on a dirt path in a field with tall grass, with hills and trees in the background and sunlight in the sky.

TAYLOR LAIDLAW

Taylor was born in Whistler — this mountain is home in the truest sense.

She's a designer by trade, founder of Opal Creative Co., and the catalyst behind Dérive Collective. She built the website, shaped the identity, and turned a shared vision into something real — the reason any of this exists beyond a hard drive full of photographs.

She shoots for colour — the warmth of a Tuscan hillside, the turquoise of a Mexican bay, the golden light of the Amalfi Coast. Places that stay with you long after you've left.

She prefers sunny days on the mountain. We don't hold it against her.