About
This portfolio is a reflection of what draws me in and stays with me—a collection shaped by instinct, curiosity, and a need to look deeper. Photography, for me, isn’t about capturing things as they are in passing. Every image is considered, composed, and felt long before the shutter is pressed. I approach each frame as a piece of fine art—something deliberate, something that carries weight, something that tells a story beyond the moment itself.
My Inspirations
My photographs attempt to capture some of the rare and ephemeral beauty nature produces, sometimes so briefly, before it changes again. Each image reflects the accumulated effects of so many variables. You never know what you’re going to find so you have to work with what nature
gives at any moment.
I usually travel to places north of Toronto with a camera and my trusty canine assistants, Jet and Tina to find inspiration amongst seasons like the beautiful solitary winters. Amongst the waterfalls and woods, I have walked these landscapes year after year, and yet every year what I see is never the same.
For example, water and ice are always in motion. Some of the things you see in these photographs—such as the long thin crystals in Man of Mystery—only exist at certain temperatures. At 20 or 30 below, you see them. But at 7 below, they are gone. Some shapes occur because of changing water
levels or wind or the flow of the water. All that combined with the angle of the light, the angle of the camera, and the exposure change everything. As much as nature changes, so too does our perspective change how we see everything.
In a fast-moving world full of stimulation of so many different kinds, we don’t often take the time to look at the small or subtle shapes that form all around us—and then are quickly gone, with a single shift in the weather or light. If we just take the time to look, here are some of the
wonderful things we can find.
