I started shooting stills in high school and was awarded a scholarship which helped me go to the Banff school of fine arts one summer when I was in university.
I guess that it was kinda natural that I end up as a cinematographer.
With my work, I have been blessed with much interesting travel around the world. And some of those places with a little time off.
I have always had some kind of camera with me everywhere I went.
Interesting people, interesting places and their confluence making interesting opportunities for photography.
About 12 years ago I saw some photographs that a friend had taken with infra red film.
One was a photograph of a guy with his girlfriend in front of his Harley Davidson in his garage lit by a single light bulb.
I was hooked.
It probably took a year of bad photographs to figure out the new and different palette.
But there is a certain kind of magic in seeing in a way that we are not used to.
Often you can predict the results, but just as often you can’t.
So the surprises often are breathtaking.
I spend a lot of my life with large groups of people yelling and shouting, going really fast to put cinematic images on either film or tape.
Taking these photos in places familiar and not is kinda like a musician playing scales.
The peaceful concentration around making story telling images in a potentially magical format is wonderfully joyous.
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