There is nothing ordinary about sunshine and our living planet. Four and a half billion years of energy and life cycles, and here I am, a part of and witness to forces so complex that I am humbled and empowered all at once – I am inspired.

My photography is a celebration of life through the movement of time across the landscape. My subject is Canada.

My love affair with the natural world began early, questing after forest creeks and quarries, marveling at fireflies and falling snow. Colour and light excited me, too, a bright yellow dandelion inside a sunbeam, or an exquisite crystal prism casting rainbows at my command. I loved to create as much as explore. Art was my favourite subject in school, and by the time I was 10 I was walking a mile to and from an art class during my summer holidays. By the time I was 13, I was asking people if they could see the orange daylight that often descended after a summer rain.

Suddenly, at 16, I had to fend for myself. I had to work every waking moment in the city if I was going to survive, pay the rent, and finish high school. Suddenly, there was no time left to marvel.

Fortunately my hard work began to blossom in my 20’s, and I found myself helping to manage high-profile government contracts for state-of-the-art electronic communications systems. It was fascinating, for example, to get the flight transponders ready for the launch of one of Canada’s Search and Rescue Satellites. Something however was amiss, so I decided to return to the forest and explore planet Earth on my own two feet again. This time, instead of childhood jars to bring the backyard magic home, I plunged into the Canadian wilderness with a 35mm camera.

Meeting the challenge of basic survival while alone in the forest, my senses and camera fully loaded with the life thriving around me, I grew to revere my ancestors, and their ancestors, and all of evolution until I felt connected to the beginning of time. It was a miracle that any of us existed at all, and I felt an overwhelming sense of privilege. Back in the forest questing after beauty, I rescued my childhood wonder through a camera lens and taught myself how to paint it with light on a silver canvas.

The reward is in the light – precision art in real time.
And capturing that purity of the moment celebrates our natural world forever.

I revel in the innocence of beauty, and I marvel at our journey on this bold blue planet hurtling through the stardust.

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