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Flores Island sunset in Clayoquot Sound. This photo and many more will be available for purchase at the show!

Ancient Forest Photo Show – Fundraiser! Wed, Sept. 28th

Sep 28 2011/in Announcements

Time: 5:00pm – 8:30pm (Drop in anytime during those hours!)

Date: Wednesday, Sept. 28th

Location: Apt. # P-2, 5th floor, 725 Yates Street,Victoria, BC

This is an event you surely don’t want to miss! Ancient Forest Alliance’s award-winning photographer TJ Watt will have a selection of his finest photographs for sale at a catered showing in downtown Victoria. Join the photographer himself and AFA’s Ken Wu for a lovely evening with live music, hors d’oeuvres, and a cash bar, located in a beautiful top-floor penthouse suite.

Please hit ‘ATTEND’ on the Facebook event page and then ‘SELECT’ friends and family to invite here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000685892458#!/event.php?eid=266394390050470

To view some …of TJ’s stunning photographs, visit his online photo galleries:

AFA photo gallery – https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/photos-media/
Personal website – https://www.utopiaphoto.ca/
Photo blog – https://utopiaphoto.ca/blog/

On display will be nearly a dozen 24”x36” prints, a range of smaller prints, and a few select framed works. Featured images will range from Canada’s biggest trees, to coastal landscape views and lush forest scenes, as well as new UNRELEASED images from one of the most stunning and unique forests on Vancouver Island!

Born and raised in Metchosin, TJ has been shooting for nearly a decade and has become best known for his spectacular photos of BC’s endangered old-growth forests. His images of have been published in provincial and national news media articles, books, posters, magazines, and museums. This is your chance to take home signed prints from one of Canada’s top nature photographers!

***This event is a fundraiser for the Ancient Forest Alliance which is in need of funding to continue its vital campaigns to protect BC’s ancient forests and forestry jobs.

Facebook game lets you solve anagrams to save Canada’s forests

Sep 27 2011/in News Coverage

True to its name, in order to play Donate2Play Media’s first new game, Wordraiser, you’re going to have to pony up some change. Wordraiser is an anagram game that has players make as many words as possible out of one word.
If you manage to guess the key word, you get to level up. After leveling up a few times, you’ll be asked to buy “Karma Points” that enable you to play more games.

Donation packages range from $1 to $20 USD, where $1 USD equals 10 Karma Points, which is good for buying one game. But right now, it seems that there’s nothing stopping you from playing as much as you want. We’re not sure if this is a bug, as the game just launched during the previous weekend.

While Wordraiser is supposedly free-to-play, it’s also the offspring of Donate2Play’s partnership with The Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA), a Canadian grassroots organization devoted to finding the balance between forestry jobs and preserving British Columbia’s ancient woodlands (defined as tree populations that are over 120 years old). So half of the money given to Wordraiser will be split between AFA and Donate2Play.

Lastly, there’s a top ten high scores leaderboard that displays players’ names followed by their levels, and two of AFA’s founders, TJ Watts and Ken Wu, are currently on the board in ninth and third place, respectively. According to its Facebook page, Wordraiser currently has 202 monthly users.

Keep in mind, though, that Donate2Play is doing all the heavy lifting here, with no risk or prior investment from AFA. Outreach for the game is done via automatic Facebook wall posts. Players will also receive facts about British Columbian forests during load screens and photos of these forests by TJ Watt.