Metro Motion

I have collected images of Hope Bay over most of my life, but it wasn't until recently that I began to purposefully explore my collection. I have a lifelong emotional connection with Hope Bay. I learned and honed many outdoor skills here and enjoyed my time immensely.

Hope Bay is a beautiful, calm, peaceful, rough and rocky part of the Niagara Escarpment situated on the Eastern edge of the Bruce Peninsula on Georgian Bay which is essentially part of the Great Lakes system. Its deep cool waters and rocky shores are a unique part of the Ontario landscape not found anywhere else. 

I wish I was there now.

Hope Bay

I have a long history with music and years of formal training in my past that is having a profound and deep impact on my photography. The images in this body of work are titled with the music I was listening to or the activity I was engaged in while completing the image.

Coloured City

The pinched horizon point is an extrapolation into the future. 


Convergent

The Light Signature series encodes movement and rhythm of the urban environ – the signature of urban life. 

Light Signatures

Black and White photographs from my initial investigation of geometry, perspective and movement

A Priori

Tropical

The Majesty series is rooted in a rebellion against the popular stark black and white floral images of Calla Lilies and the like. These colourful images of scrappy weeds recall childhood memories of watercolour illustrations from my mother’s wildflower books. 

Majesty

A lifetime entanglement with music, has led me to visually investigate rhythm and pattern in the context of time.
My photographic explorations are in some important part, influenced by my fascination with concepts in Quantum Physics and theories about our universe as a computational model.
Time is an ever-present thread in my images, whether overt through the rhythm of movement or subtle through the patterns of the complex synergies and interrelations of everything.
I am a quantum observer, pattern seeker.

Full Sun - Limited Edition of 10

Stormy Sky Over Dark Water - Limited Edition of 10

Driving South — Limited Edition of 8

Taxi Ride - Limited Edition of 8

Dust Storm - Limited Edition of 10

Sky And Field - Limited Edition of 10

Line Squall - Limited Edition of 10

Difluence - Limited Edition of 10

Tropical Storm - Limited Edition of 10

Low Pressure Trough - Limited Edition of 10

Hot Anvil Head Cloud - Limited Edition of 10

Polar Vortex - Limited Edition of 10

Glossy Orange Geen Blue Candy Layers - Limited Edition of 10

Diaphonous Veils - Limited Edition of 10

Orange Overriding Mauve - Limited Edition of 10

Downdraft - Limited Edition of 10

Hope Bay I - Limited Edition of 8

Cold Air Funnel - Limited Edition of 10

Canyon Arroyo - Limited Edition of 8

Hana I - Limited Edition of 10

White Wildflower II - Limited Edition of 8

Green Cleaving Blue And Yellow - Limited Edition of 10

Cyclone - Limited Edition of 10

Distant Weather - Limited Edition of 10

Clear Skies - Limited Edition of 10

South Wind - Limited Edition of 10

Freezing Drizzle - Limited Edition of 10

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