A Word From The Photographer

My life in photography started late and progressed slowly until 1970. At age 14 (c.1945) I got my first camera . . . it was a Kodak "Bullet". My initial experience with this camera did not go well (I had no manual), so thinking it was broken I threw it away.

Nothing happened, photographically, until I got married when my wife gave me a 35mm camera as a wedding present. Over the next few years I used photography in my teaching career but it was not until 1961, when I was introduced to black and white development, that I really began to take photography seriously. There was a magic about working the image with the chemicals and the enlarger. I started a wedding portrait business where I sent out the colour files but kept the black and white darkroom for my "special" stuff.

By the late 1980's, I got into the magic of digital photography and my work was all colour but black and white has always been my passion. I have found a way to make a really good image from a digital negative. Most of my new work and some of my older work is converted to glorious black and white images.

I hope that you enjoy the experience of looking at my work as much as I have enjoyed making them for you.