I've been shooting film since I was about 12, back in the late 50s, when my older brother started processing and printing with a small Kodak darkroom kit set up under the stairs in our house.
I really got the bug for photography in the 70s while at university but didn't get feverish about Read more...

I've been shooting film since I was about 12, back in the late 50s, when my older brother started processing and printing with a small Kodak darkroom kit set up under the stairs in our house.
I really got the bug for photography in the 70s while at university but didn't get feverish about it until the mid-80s when I saw my first Ansel Adams image - in person- at a show in Seattle.
I am an architect and used photography a routinely in my work but after seeing the Adams images I started to study photography at various schools in Vancouver, Canada.
I shoot landscapes and urdan/street scenes - not architecture per se. I
I find that the process of looking, and by that I mean looking closely and carefully at the world around us, an immensely pleasurable and informative process. To capture the world around us either on film or digitally is a great challenge and one that keeps me striving to create images that interest me. If others find interest or enjoyment in them then that makes me doubly happy.
I made the transition to digital about 7 years ago. I was hooked from the start and now use various digital cameras from compacts to DSLRs. The joy in seeing a print ease itself out of my printer always reminds me of that first print my brother showed me under the stairs many years ago.
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