The 2025 Canadian Photographer of the Year is long-time Can Geo Photo Club member Anthony Bucci of Port McNeill, B.C. Bucci was chasing waterfalls with a friend near Campbell River, B.C. when he got the news. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d says Bucci. \u201cIt\u2019s still a shocker, just because I know how many people contribute to [this competition]. To be selected is truly amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Originally from Langley, B.C., Bucci spent much of his life fishing \u201csalmon, trouts, steelhead, sturgeon\u2026 lakes, rivers, ocean, you name it.\u201d On these fishing adventures, Bucci would see \u201ctons of wildlife\u201d \u2014 owls on silent wings in the bush, bears fishing on rich fall salmon runs, wolves on the upper Chilliwack River. Around 20 years ago, fishing started to get crowded, so Bucci sold his fishing equipment and bought a camera and lens. \u201cIronically, when I bought that stuff and I went back to all those fishing spots, I saw nothing!\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
But Bucci is nothing if not determined, a virtue he prides himself on. \u201cI\u2019ll just keep going and going and going and going, till I\u2019m sick of going, but I\u2019ll keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clearly, his persistence has paid off. One of his winning shots, featured above, comes from the narrow valley of Zeballos on Vancouver Island where, during the winter, the fog rushes in and around the mountain peaks. Bucci sat there watching Rugged Mountain for hours, waiting for the perfect thickness of fog. \u201cI\u2019ve got to make sure everything\u2019s perfect. If I don\u2019t like it, I don\u2019t take a picture,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s got to be special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Canadian Photographer of the Year is long-time Can Geo Photo Club member Anthony Bucci of Port…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-446952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}