when a last-minute hole in the magazine needed filling, we always had but one thought: Better call Rowlsie. Bruce Rowles was a talker. It could be mildly annoying, like when you were trying to thread a particularly nasty tangle of branches known as the Iron Curtain—which he of course had named, along with a dozen [...]

Looking at this photo transports me right back to this day, to Nanny, and to my brother Bruce Rowles, a true master of light. Déjà-vu transports me back to the epic winter of 1999 when I spent hours with Bruce Rowles in his attic examining a freshly-developed slide sequence of me dropping a massive cliff [...]

The Celebration of Bruce’s Life was held on September 26th in Whistler Fairmont Woodlands.  It was a beautiful ‘blue bird day’ and more than 100 people attended the event.  A number of Bruce’s photographs, airbrush paintings, drawings and computer compositions were displayed along with pairs of skis that he had decorated for friends.  A moving […]

  Bruce Rowles, Artist, Athlete, Friend 1961-2022   Bruce Rowles died at home with his family around him, on March 22 of cholangiocarcinoma at the age of 61. A long time resident of Whistler, BC, Bruce moved to Qualicum Beach in the summer of 2020. He was a talented extreme ski photographer with many published […]