I became enamored with cameras as I traipsed with my mother while she explored the remote roads with her camera in search of opportunities to photograph the land and animals. I spent spent hours mimicking my father, Pierre, as we created charcoal, pastel, pencil and ink drawings as well as water color paintings. My interest in photography began to blossom as I worked as the staff photographer for the grade school yearbook. After completing professional school, I returned to the camera and refined my eye, skills and photographic interests.

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A time before digital cameras, a Canon and Konica 35mm were initially my tools. Soon, I got my grubby hands on a Hasselblad medium format film camera, which had a glorious way of slowing the process of taking a picture. After quite a while using medium format film, I moved to digital, which is now how the 99% of my photographs are captured.
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The photographs on this site are from my work starting 1999. These images were captured using a variety of equipment, including a Konica FT-1 35mm, a Canon Elan IIe 35mm, a Hasselblad 501c, a Nikon 990, a Nikon 995, and a Canon 40D, Canon 5D MkIV and occasionally some other cameras. Numerous other pieces of equipment were used for these pictures, such as, cable releases, electronic remote releases, flashes, tons of lenses, and various filters. The one piece of equipment that is used regularly is a tripod. Tripods are carried everywhere with all the other gear even on long hikes. It is often the piece of equipment that is most valuable for photography, and next to the big white Canon L lenses, one of the most conspicuous.

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