Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival 2015

Norman Felix Gallery, Toronto, Canada May 1 to 31, 2015 Opening Night: May 7, 2015 (6pm – 2am) I’m in a group show for the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival again this year. CONTACT is the largest photography event in the world, and a premiere cultural event in Canada.It stimulates excitement and discussion among a diverse […]

Revival of Landscape Photography

Image Ages Magazine Landscape Photography Issue A selection of my work and a question and answer interview was featured in the landscape photography special issue of Image Ages Magazine, a photography publication from Hunan, China. The front cover, left, portrays the surrealistic photography of Luis Beltran. The article about my work is entitled Humanism. The […]

Step By Step Milky Way Photography Tutorial (Updated 2020-12-08)

This is a relatively simple astrophotography tutorial that will help you create stunning photographs of the Milky Way galaxy using your current photo equipment and image stacking. About the Milky Way The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy approximately 120,000 light-years in diameter and containing about 200 billion stars, of which our sun is one. […]

Finding Your Photography Style – Podcast Interview with Bret Culp

You can listen to a recent podcast conversation I had with Marko Kulik about developing your unique photography style at Photography.ca or on iTunes. Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #134 fea­tures an inter­view with Toronto, Ontario fine art pho­tog­rapher Bret Culp. Dur­ing the inter­view we talk about find­ing and devel­op­ing your own pho­tog­ra­phy or shoot­ing style. Bret offers […]

Solargraphy (Exposure of Time, Space and Weather)

My first solargraphy image, below, is the result of a 128-day exposure made from August 16 through December 21, 2014. The camera was facing west-northwest over Georgian Bay.  The tree line is visible on the right side of the frame, and there is a hint of the shoreline along the bottom.  The sun burned a […]

The 5th Let Kids Be Kids Camp Trillium Benefit

Camp Trillium’s Let Kids Be Kids Benefit, University of Guelph, Canada May 3, 2014 I’m very happy to have donated a photograph and a signed book to Camp Triullium’s Let Kids Be Kids silent auction. It’s heartening that an organization such as Camp Trillium exist in a sometimes cold and indifferent world. Camp Trillium – […]

Roger Ebert Didn’t Fear Death

Life, Love, Wonder and Laughter Roger Ebert recently passed away. With the loss of one of the great advocate of cinema I am reminded of a relevant and poignant quote of his which I filed into my impermanence notes several years ago. “I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I […]

10 Irish Proverbs for St. Patrick’s Day

In anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day I’ve compiled a list of 10 Irish proverbs from the thousands of quotations, poetry, prose, toasts, sayings, blessings and other expressions that originate from the literary prodigious Land of Saints and Scholars – Ireland.  I’ve matched up black and white Irish photographs from my Between Heaven and Earth gallery […]

RMG Exposed Auction 2012 – Part 2

I’m pleased that my photograph, Dunluce Castle, was selected as one of ten pieces in the live auction portion of the RMG Exposed fundraiser event that took place on Saturday November 10. Is was exciting to watch the fast and furious bidding on it.  Additionally, there were 32 outstanding photos in the silent auction. There […]

RMG Exposed 2012

My black and white photograph, Dunluce Castle, has been selected to be part of the The Robert McLaughlin Gallery RMG Exposed Auction Event on Saturday November 10th, 2012. Dunluce Castle, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 2012archival pigment on photo rag RMG Exposed is our annual fundraiser. Over the past two years, we have raised funds that support […]