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The first thing on this page is easy
Poetry Poetry Poetry
The link will take you to my writings.
A few by friends and a few of my favourites

Serious Human Relationship
My words on when it goes bad

The Rules of Life
decreed by me the annotated version

25 Years And Life To Go
Chapter 1 of my book on living with chronic
pain for now beyond 25 years

That Me Day In Boston
One of my own observed and reflected on experiences

Awakenings ... you'll love it too!
    Up at the top of the Dome in Toronto ... it is indeed a site!

I thought of putting this shot on the
photography page and then decided
it really does belong here. You get up
in the catwalks at the top of the dome
and after you've gone "GULP" a couple
of times you do go hmmmmm! There is
one thing you get told when you go up
there, "Don't drop anything" and that
is the mild version!

If you stare directly in to the centre of
the photograph you make get some
sensation of vertigo.
Fire In The Night

Fire In The Night 1996

This mural is the first Fireworks compilation I did. The mural consists of seven single photographs and was designed at 16' Long x 4' High.. The shooting took place on the water off of Ontario Place in 1996. At the time tobacco laws were not what they are now and the show was part of Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire.

The camera was a Nikon 2020 with a 75-300 zoom lens. Film was a 36 exposures Kodak 1600 ASA. The ASA was not pushed for the shooting. Most firework displays are about 20 minutes and this one was too. The photographer, me, and this is the polite version, was busier than a one armed paper hanger in a windstorm. I didn't have a motor advance on the camera but the camera itself has auto film advance. See, Focus, Bang, See, Focus, Bang, Reload, Repeat....... 3 1/2 rolls were shot in those 20 minutes.



Alien Shores

It was a strange day indeed along the water front of the wilds of Whitby. Two white hot suns did shine down. A few sulphur clouds hung in the acrid sky. The lake that had been turned to oil and dung was lapping eerily against the shore. An oozing putrid sludge was left behind when the gelatinous mass crawled back to the cesspool from whence it came.


You would think nothing, not even disease could live in that fetid pool, yet, ever so slowly, almost imperceptibly some horror was taking shape. Compelled and reviled, daring not to look away in case this growing atrocity of monstrosity suddenly took full form.

I could go on but this is about the artwork not story telling. A brief technical description is below the piece


Alien Shores

Designed with a 2 to 1 aspect ratio with the intent of producing at a minimum of 2' x 4'. Yes it was a monster file with a working resolution of 720 PPI / DPI and a canvas size of 6" x 12" in PSD Format. The 35mm neg was brought in on a Polaroid Film and Slide Scanner around 1440 DPI as I recall. Why so big? Simple Stuff, you learn early that imagery will go down in size quite nicely and it won't go up in size worth a damn. Interpolate is the actual word and that word applys to imagery not just text.



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