About Me

Like most small children I idolized the skills my parents had that I couldn’t yet imitate: my father often carried an old SLR camera with him and while he was no professional, I thought his photos were the most beautiful things I’d ever seen. One day he took a series of pictures of my baby sister and I walking to Seal Bay on NorthVancouver Island, and when I saw the results they instantly became the most meaningful, poetic images of my budding teenage-hood. It was those pictures that inspired my interest in photography, and threw me into what would be over a decade of study and practice.

My first love was a Pentax ME with 50mm and macro lenses, a flash unit that didn’t work properly and a bunch of instruction manuals from the early 80’s that were sun-bleached and barely readable. I spent a 14 year old’s fortune on film and watched as my pictures slowly changed from uncertain grey blobs to something more artistic. I even kept an album for myself full of all my favourite pictures from every roll so that I could see how I was growing – I still have it tucked away with the old family albums. My baby sister was one of my favourite subjects, then only a toddler, as she would willingly dress up and mug for the camera.
The camera followed me through high school, marriage and my first babe.

(My high school clique in a typical lunch hour, taken with my old Pentax back when I was 18.)

Unfortunately, that love was not meant to be as it was a ‘long term loan’ from a friend of the family, and when my first born was halfway through her first year I had to give it back to it’s original owner. Shortly after I received my first digital camera, and from there learned the joys of “free film” and learned the digital medium through willing (and sometimes not so willing) family and friends as my subjects.

A few upgrades, a few years and thousands of hours of practice and study later I made myself a business out of my hobby.

I specialize in babies and children because of my cherished photo album of pictures from my childhood. I was one of a lucky few to have well-preserved, clear photos of all the moments as I grew up and want to be able to provide the same for others.
I am also a member of the not-for-profit organization “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep” which specializes in infant loss and bereavement photography. My first son was born, and passed, in November of 2005 and I was fortunate to have my best friend there taking some of the only pictures I have of him – every one means the world to me. NILMDTS Photographers offer free services to parents who have lost, or are losing their babies and children. For these services I am available between the hours of 7am and 11pm at the local hospitals, but can be contacted “after hours” in an emergency. If you want to know more about this organization and what they offer (including becoming a volunteer), please see their website.