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…
The same file today with changes to the crop, colour temperature, as well as modifications to contrast, saturation, etc.
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…
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…
Clarity
Does it have clarity? Right away when I wrote this I thought "is it in focus" and I guess photographically that is the obvious way to thinking of clarity. Is…
On the other side of empathy is trust
If empathy is on one side of the coin trust is on the other. In my last post I talked about the importance of having empathy as a photographer and…
Portrait of me created by David James Photography, early 1980's
I have empathy
Yes, I have empathy,believe it or not. It's because of attending a seminar of Leon Kennamer that I have it. The year was 1982. A flyer at Sylvano Color Labs…
Good-bye old friend.
It was sometime around 2008 or 2009 I think, when I bought this used Epson 7600 printer from a photographer friend. Since then every print that is 24 inches or…