About Me

My dad bought a Canon SLR in the summer of `97 at a garage sale. It came with two lenses, a flash and some other accessories. I didn`t really know how to use a complicated camera like that but as soon as I got it in my hands, my dad never got it back.

I learned how to operate the camera by reading every book on photography in the library. I took photos of anything and everything. Over the years, I added a few more lenses, a second body, more advanced flash units and went through thousands of rolls of film.

And that’s how it all started. I still shoot with Canon but have moved on to the EOS digital system. Instead of thick binders full of negative strips, I now fill hundreds of gigabytes of hard drive space with digital images. My cameras accompany me practically everywhere - from a casual walk in the park to a family vacation.

In university, I studied journalism with a personal emphasis on photography. The school offered no formal courses on photojournalism, but I got to know a photographer associated with the college and worked closely with him on several projects over the years. Photography was a central point of every one of my projects, and I tried to work it into every course and topic. I joined the university paper, working my way up from writer and photographer to photo editor and in my last year, Editor-in-Chief. Along the way, I shot for a number of bands, organizations and publications.

Since I started shooting, my images have appeared in various publications including The Globe and Mail Online, The Halifax Daily News, The Owen Sound Sun Times, The Coast (Halifax, NS) and Echo Weekly (Kingston, ON) among others.

Between conferences, weddings and events, I focus on fine-art photography, spending many hours wandering mountain paths.