Starting Out

Portrait of me by Miranda Robson

Hello and welcome to my blog. I've been involved in the visual arts for over 35 years primarily as a photographer. For the last ten years, almost to the day, I have been involved in teaching photography here in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is without doubt, one of the best things I have ever done.

So I'm starting this blog for a couple of reasons, to give a forum for my thoughts and to stay in touch with the some of the wonderful people that I have met over the last ten years. If you are not a former student please know that you are welcome too.


Those of you who know me also know that I live, sleep, eat and breathe photography, or perhaps I should say imaging as I am now considering other mediums as well. (More about that later.) You also know that I am as excited about photography now as I was when I first started. How lucky we are to be involved in the arts! Every day there is something new to discover, I never know what is going to happen and what I am going to see.


By the way, Gaetanne and I went to the Winsor Gallery on Granville Street yesterday to see the drawings of BRIAN BOULTON and multi-disciplinary work of CHRISTIAN NICOLAY. If you get the chance, go see it, both of these artists do wonderful work. It is one of the most inspiring exhibitions I have seen in some time.


Here's a portrait of my dear Gaetanne. I did this shot a few years ago at Chesterman Beach at Tofino. It was her birthday and I had just given her those binoculars (after many, many hints!)