I first started making photographs in the Spring of 1967 during my Canada Centennial project, a cross-Canada hitch-hiking / train trip - with a Kodak Brownie box camera and 126 film. By the end of that month long trip, I had bought two more cameras, a Kodak Instamatic with light meter and my first SLR, a Practika. Since then, I have owned a variety of cameras and systems, including Mamiya Sekor, Asahi Pentax and an extensive Canon FD system (manual focus) including several models of Canon cameras. Since the Fall of 1991, after losing much of my Canon gear in a canoe upset, I have been shooting with Nikon, and have owned a long string of both film and digital Nikon SLRs and related equipment. In 2011 I am shooting all digital, on a Nikon D300 and D700.

I started shooting only b&w negatives but added slides to the mix for an extended 1973 Europe trip, and shot mostly, but not exclusively, slides from then until the digital days. I currently have a library of about 40,000 slide images and 10,000 negative images. I made the switch to digital early, but still have my film cameras. I use Photoshop, currently CS5, to make modest adjustments to my images and to print them as limited edition (limited to 20) archival prints printed by me on an Epson inkjet printer, titled and signed. Recently I have had some success selling prints of a variety of subjects, and a gallery of those prints is on my site.

Over the years I have shot people portraits, travel/street photography and a few weddings, but now, and for a while, have mostly concentrated on nature images while still taking travel and some portrait shots.

I am self-taught, although I have attended lectures by one of my earliest influences, Canadian photographer Freeman Patterson, and I did do a one day workshop with another well known Canadian photographer Richard Martin which I found helpful. I have taught a number of workshops to small groups on nature and macro photography. I continue to read a wide assortment of photo magazines and take every opportunity I can to look at and critique the images of other photographers (eg, PhotoSig.com and Photo.net).

I was influenced in my early days by the work of Freeman Patterson and nature photographer Tim Fitzharris with whom I used to shoot in our early days. More recently I admire the work of Canadian photographer Richard Martin and nature photographers Art Wolfe, Tom Mangelsen and Andy Rouse. Ansel Adams has been an inspiration. My street photography has always been informed by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and W Eugene Smith.

I have been a member of the Canadian Association of Photographic Art (CAPA) for more than 30 years (ie, since the NAPA days) and a member of photo clubs almost from the beginning. Those clubs include the Windsor Camera Club, Yellowknife Photo Club, and since about 1989/90, the RA Photo Club in Ottawa. I occasionally give talks at the RA Club as well as others on topics related to my photographic work and photography generally. In addition I act as a judge of competitions at the RA Photo Club, the Camera Club of Ottawa and for CAPA nationally. I am a CAPA certified judge of photography. Other recognitions are listed below:

• Had 2 photos published in “Folio-71”, an arts publication at UWO in 1971.

• Won the "Winnifred Lescombe trophy" for 1971, having accumulated most points for monochrome printing at the Windsor Camera Club (where self-printing was required).

• Awarded three “Certificates of Merit”, one “Certificate of Distinction”, one “Certificate of Pictorial Excellence” and one 5th prize (among over 20,000 entries) in a year-long, six segment national contest called “Response and Recognition” sponsored by Nikon in 1976/77.

• Contributed several flower prints that sold well for the ‘Big Sisters’ Art show in Kitchener in 1978.

• Awarded 3rd place in the Federation of Ontario Naturalists annual photo salon in 1978.

• Won one 1st, one 3rd and one 5th place prize for colour prints in the photography section of the Central Ontario Exhibition in Kitchener in 1981.

• Awarded one 1st and one 5th place prize in the 1985 annual Salon at the Yellowknife Camera Club.

• Member of RA photo club since moving to Ottawa in 1989. In that club progressed to Senior photographer, having won a few awards along the way, ie, Intermediate Assignment Award (slides) for 1992/93 and 1993/94, Fall Challenge Award for 1997 and 1998, Take Your Best Shot Award for 1992 and 1997, and Photographer of the Year (slides) for 1993/94 and Photographer of the Year 1996/97, and 1999/00.

• Became the RA Photo Club’s first Master photographer in 2001 (now one of only 3).

• Runner-up in the Canadian Geographic magazine photo contest in 2002 ('Shorelines' topic).

• Had a one man show at the National Press Club in Ottawa in 2005.

• Part of a group show at Balderson Gallery in 2006.

• Had an article called “Hip Boot Photography” published in the Fall 2007 issue of Canadian Camera magazine.

• Recognized by CAPA as a certified judge of photography.