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Memorial Park Bench.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better. – Minor White

I found this image; “Memorial Park Bench,” walking along a path with Audrey and the dogs on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the park.  It didn’t take long to compose; the shadow was perfect, the bench was perfect, the geometric…

“Warehouse Parking Lot Crossing.”

The process of photographing is a pleasure: eyes open, receptive, sensing, and at some point, connecting. It’s thrilling to be outside your mind, your eyes far ahead of your thoughts.

Henry Wessel

I came across the quotes of this photographer yesterday and I liked them.  Sometimes you just know, you connect with the image in front of you, everything becomes…

Factory “Break” Chairs

Factory “Break” Chairs

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

Edward Weston

I found these factory chairs on one of my early Sunday morning drives thru a  nearby industrial area. Hopefully these chairs tell you a story as they do to me.

Harbor Lookout in Burlington Ontario

Harbour Lookout.

I am not a landscape photographer. I am interested in people. I am interested in our civilisation. I am interested in what traces we leave in landscapes, in cities and places. But I wait until people have gone, until they are out of the shot. So the place can start talking about us. Places are so much more able to evoke people when people are out. As soon as there is one person…

Mechanicals

“Mechanicals,” a closeup image of a working steam tractor’s drive gears.

This image of drive gears from a steam tractor was almost never published and at one point I thought was lost forever along with a lot of my images. Two months ago I suffered a hard drive crash and gained a new brick paper weight.  No problem I thought, until one late night trying to recover the images on the…

Antique Steam Tractor Firebox

Antique Steam Tractor Firebox

I am a fan of all things mechanical; the older the better.  For some unknown reason I have a special spot in my heart for anything steam and/or kerosene powered. Audrey says I love all things rusty, but this is not necessarily so.  What I do love is photographing the restored details, the wear, the tear, and the workings of these behemoths.  I can be lost for hours…

“Holland Marsh Farm Shed” now available at Saatchiart

Holland Marsh Farm Shed

“Holland Marsh Farm Shed” When photographing this shed my inner dialogue stopped; all that could be heard was the distant hum of farm machinery and I  was inspired by the often overlooked.  This work is inspired by Lewis Baltz along with the “New Topographics” photo movement.

Three years ago I had picked up my camera and was happily photographing whatever interested me at…

Farm Shed Door now available at Saatchi Art

      Farm Shed Door

‘Now you must not take anything for granted when you are looking at a picture. Never do that. Every single little tiny space on that page works and counts.”

William Eggleston

  I am an artist and admittedly I see the world through different eyes then most people; I see the beauty in things that may be considered boring, decrepit, overlooked, rusting, deteriorating, or…

Fuschia,  June 2017.

With life and work I have have little free time and free time is used to work on my images and photography.  Over the past year I have been working on a series of photographs; call it a project if you want.  This Fuschia photograph is not one of them, and hence the problem.

  I of course posted this on my Facebook page, and three Facebook group pages.  At last count this…

“Urban Mailboxes” now available at Saatchi Art

Silos II now availbe at Saatchi Art

“Silos II.” When photographing these images of Silos in a “New Landscape” style of photography my inner dialogue stops and all that can be heard is the distant hum of idle machinery along with the sound of one hand clapping, very therapeutic.  I’m also pleased to announce this image is now available at Saatchi Art as a signed and limited numbered edition print.

Never mind the fact that writing…

Silos, A black and white image of industrial silos htaken from the ground looking up soon to be for sale as a limited edition print.

It has been awhile.  Although this blog has not been updated in close to a year, I have been busy photographically.  Writing is fucking hard. I find it far more unnatural than photographing, or editing images.  Here is a great article by Eric Kim; “How I motivate…

Twin Vintage Cobras.

The vintage car show and shine season is fast approaching in southern Ontario.  These late spring and summer months are also the perfect time to capture that stunning image of your four wheeled collectable.  I am pleased to announce the availability of a few open shooting dates; but book soon as these dates are fast disappearing.  These finished images are guaranteed to make…

White Lisianthus Flower Bud

White Lisianthus Flower Bud

…I can’t recreate my feelings about how I happened to do this or that, because a lot of my stuff was done without any motivation, more than just what I call having a good time fooling around.

Imogen Cunningham

White Lisianthus Flower Bud; part of my growing selection of black and white flower images is now available at Crated.com as a fine art print or as a framed…

White Orchid available at Crated.com

White Orchid.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

W. Eugene Smith

I am pleased to announce “White Orchid” part of my growing flower portfolio is now available at Crated.com as a framed print and as a fine art image printed on metal at Displate.com.  Spend at a moment looking into this image, notice it’s…