For Francis Roy, the weather forecast doubles as a shooting schedule. If tomorrow calls for fog, that’s the day he’s out with his camera, waiting for the landscape to give him something worth capturing.

Roy grew up in nearby Nigadoo and made the move to Bathurst a year and a half ago. It’s a change that’s given him a bit more independence. His first apartment, and being closer to the city. . “It’s nice to have my own place,” he says.

His interest in photography goes back to high school, where he started messing around with a camera.. “I wanted to do photography,” he says of those early days. It wasn’t until after graduation that he began taking it seriously, trading casual snapshots for a more deliberate eye.

That eye has settled on landscapes. Roy is drawn to scenes that catch his attention. A certain light, a certain sky, a shot that just feels like it would make a great picture.

Roy is candid about staying behind the lens rather than in front of it. He describes himself as a bit socially insecure, and prefers landscape shots. This lets him focus purely on the scene itself.

For now, photography remains a hobby rather than a career. Life is expensive, Roy notes, so a regular job pays the bills while photography stays a personal pursuit. Among his influences, Danish landscape photographer Mads Peter Iversen stands out as a major inspiration, shaping the kind of dramatic, weather-driven images Roy hopes to create closer to home in northern New Brunswick.

Be sure to check out some of Francis’s beautiful photography on his Facebook page.

We want to thank Francis for being a guest on the Northern Heat Report, and we wish him the best. Well that’s it for another edition of the Northern Heat Report, the place you come to listen to the stories that have not yet been discovered.