Thank you for finding your way to this website. Within this site you will find photographs that I have taken in the last two decades.
My father and I split the cost of an Olympus OM-2n with a 50mm ƒ1.4 lens in January of 1980. I was 12 at the time and was just beaming with pride in this acquisition.
The early years were spent photographing flowers in my mom’s garden and my newborn nephew. The next year the family took a summer trip that introduced me to Waterton Lakes National Park, Waterton Glacier National Park and the Going to the Sun Road in Montana. The majesty of the alpine landscapes were truly amazing to me and a great source of inspiration.
Eventually, my kit grew to include a Tamron 28mm ƒ2.5, a Vivitar Series1 70-210 ƒ3.5, OM Winder and latter on an OM-1 body. I would never dream of travelling without my gear. If I drove out of town, I made sure that my gadget bag rode shotgun. I remember some instances when my Datsun 200SX was so in need of repair, I used to mount my Nishiki road bicycle to a carrier and take it with me on road trips, lest mee car breaketh down and die.
It was this kit that also travelled with me through the Middle East for three summers and through northern Alberta for a few winters. I studied Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Lethbridge and was fortunate enough to partake in four Archaeological Summer Schools in three summers. The first was at Tell el-‘Umeiri, just south of Amman Jordan. The next field school, in 1991, was Tel Miqne-Ekron in Israel and Oylum Hoyuk which is just south east of Kilis, Turkey. The summer of 1992 was spent at the Albright institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem entering field data for Tel Miqne-Ekron.
Many days and evenings were spent hiking in the Rockies photographing landscapes with alpine flowers or pulling off the highway to catch a prairie sunset.
In the late 2000s, I discovered that both of my OM bodies required servicing so I decided to retire the film based equipment to the curio and begin investing in the digital format.
Olympus decided on completely re-engineering their mounting system and all their old lenses became obsolete. This decision confused me and it was key in my decision to go with Nikon, as they engineered their digital cameras with the same F-mount that they had been using since 1960. In retrospect, I understand Olympus’ decision now to go mirrorless and use a 4/3rds sensor. I just wish they would have built an adaptor for their venerable OM glass.
It is from here that the website begins. I do not have any digitally scanned imagery from the film days, so the digital record begins with this digital website.
