Taking photographs is an act of arresting time and motion. It’s a method of capturing a moment of energy and freezing it – seeing and capturing a scene that will never repeat itself, never again be visible in precisely the way the eye saw it in the millisecond that the shutter flipped open and closed.

That’s what taking a photograph is to me – a microsecond in the flowing of the universe where we are able to see what will never again be visible in that exact way.

And then comes the processing – where the possibilities exist for moving the initial moment into something new, inventive, extraordinary. This is where the photographer’s intuition comes into play, where the creative urge can have its freedom.

Many of my photographs are the results of HDR processing – that is, High Dynamic Range processing. In brief, this involves taking, in rapid succession, 3 (or more) photos of a scene. Each photo has a different exposure value, ranging from under exposed, normal exposure and over exposed.

These are then combined, using dedicated software, into 1 image to show a fuller range of light to dark, far more effectively than the human eye can detect.

I have been an active member of the Mississauga Camera Club since 2004, serving in various executive positions, as well as having received recognition for my photography.

In addition, I have displayed my photography at various other locales, including the Mississauga Art Gallery (Nurses at Work) and the City of Mississauga (Vital Signs 2015).

I am a member of a select group of photographers documenting the development of the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area in Mississauga. A project of the Credit Valley Conservation Authority and the Region of Peel, Morphology records the development of over 25 hectares of green space and wetlands on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Toronto GTA.