LOCKDOWN!
Wrongfully convicted! According to Merriam - Webster, lockdown is: the confinement of prisoners to their cells In this case, many of the prisoners are wrongfully convicted. I feel sorry for…
Imagine rejecting a Rembrandt.
Early in the decade of the 1660's Rembrandt received a large public commission. Offered initially to Govert Flinck, a student of Rembrandt's Flinck had died only after making a rough…
Rembrandt as an old man (1669). It is said that this was the last self portrait that Rembrandt did, and in fact at the time of his death it was unfinished.
Rembrandt and portraits by invitation
"Almost two-thirds of his entire output consists of portraits of one kind or another --- self-portraits, group portraits, single portraits. And instead of being commissioned, the subjects for most of…
I’m not a play thing
It was in the late 1980's. I was taking on pretty much any photographic assignment I could find in order to pay the bills. I picked up the phone when…
Mammoth favourite
The Big Dump Impressive! Created for Komdresco Manufacturing in Cambridge in the late 1980's, this image of a welder working on a dump box for a mining truck needed to…
Time and change
Time and tide wait for no man - Geoffrey Chaucer Keep up with the times or fall behind and become irrelevant. How many times have we heard that? Yet, it…
Favourites: Fill the frame
Fill the frame The year was 1971 and I was in my first year of photographic study at Conestoga College. Looking back, I'm am amazed I was there. There were…
The Welder
Favourites
Favourites; every photographer has them. Favourite images, some took hours or even days to plan out and execute. Others happened so quick there was no time to plan anything. But…
What would you do?
What would you do? I want to know. Thirty-five years ago when I was deciding to move my studio into a store front location, one of the chores facing me…
Driftwood and a log cabin
Driftwood and a log cabin, or a study in black and white, or Inspiration Point; all are possible titles for this black and white toned print. The title is, as…