Courtney's extensive slide library is the basis for international presentations such as UNESCO's World Heritage Committee (1990), Waterscapes International Congress (1991), and the United Nations traveling exhibit, To Care for the Earth (1992). The 1991 Canadian tour of The Sacred Earth Concert, a multimedia presentation, raised money for local environmental projects and for the Endangered Spaces Campaign of Worldwide Fund For Nature (WWF), Canada. Showcased at the United Nations "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janiero in June 1992.   In 1993 Milne was awarded the Gold Medal for Distinction in Canadian Photography, by the National Association for Photographic Art.  Milne was selected to the 1995 jury for the International Photography Competition sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program, in Tokyo, Japan, where he presented The Sacred Earth Concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography. 

In September 2003, & again during late August 2004 - Great Canadian Wilderness was proud to host Courtney Milne and his entourage of friends on our 'Dance with Caribou' trips to the Thelon in Canada's Far North.  This is what Courtney has to say about his trips with! us: .

"What has the two weeks in the North meant to me? First of all, I feel profoundly blessed.  Maybe what Lawren Harris, the great Canadian Group of Seven impressionist painter, said three-quarters of a century ago still holds true today. I would like to believe that my photographs do convey a sense of place "more spacious of a greater living quiet, perhaps a more certain conviction of eternal values."

"If a photograph is a mirror of a person¹s inner landscape, then indeed the North has connected me to a vibrant, clean, pure, robust inner reality that has been lying dormant."

"The light there dances with a little more joy."

"The colours of the autumn tundra mix and blend magically as if splashed together from the brush of a master painter."

"I found it difficult to walk because each new step felt as though I were treading on a delicate and fragile masterpiece -- nature¹s canvas of infinite size and import."

"I open the tent flap and step out into a dazzling light that illuminates the hoarfrost that has blanketed the beach before dawn. There is my friend Jeff, binoculars to his eyes, a distant silhouette on the far ridge. 

Tundra Tom walks into the kitchen, book in hand, ready for our morning story -- which, legend has it -- he has memorized and only pretends to read!"

"We are cruising the pristine waters of Whitefish Lake on a pontoon boat as a brilliant crimson sunset explodes on the western rim, then spreads like wildfire across the entire hemisphere.  Caribou antlers shine iridescent white in the nurturing glow of a pregnant moon. The aurora, like a saucy and unruly sorceress, mocks our inability to keep pace with her dance, or to catch her with our cameras."

"Rain, sleet, wind, snow, sand, piercing cold, brilliant sun, Arctic light, luminescent colour stream by us and at us in a kaleidoscope of cosmic sensations. I am a child; I am old; I am alive; I can¹t comprehend; I can¹t cope; I am exhausted, euphoric, mesmerized, satiated, starved for more, eager to return ... and already there."

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Courtney Milne & Sherrill Miller

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Lonnie Brock