A UK based music group named "This Circus Life" contacted me about an image I made for my "Metropolis" photo-essay that featured my multiple-exposure ICM images. They fell in love with one of the images and inquired if it was available for use on their new CD release. We struck…
Three years later... When we think of a ghost, we think of something that is no longer alive yet persists as a reflection of what was before. Familiar, yet absent the spirit of life. This photo-essay is my impression of how the city of Vancouver looked and felt during the…
The first rays of morning sunlight illuminates a bed of emerging flowers displaying their vibrant colours and intriguing shapes. This is their season of glory, when everything is new, their growth robust, and their floral displays dazzle with form and colour. In the midst of the vibrant show, a desiccated…
Riverview Sanatarium was built in a remote location in 1913 near Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The facility stands at the top of a lush tree-covered hill, overlooking 1000 acres of steaming peat bogs and thick woodlands. The grounds were planted as an arboretum by English gardeners brought to Canada to…
As a young boy I was fascinated by sci-fi movies and all the fantastic things depicted in them. One thing that always frightened me in such movies was robots. I found the idea so disturbing that a machine could move about at will, or that a machine could have an…
Romanesco cauliflower is a vegetable that falls somewhere between broccoli and cauliflower. It has been grown in Italy since the 16th century. The flavor is closer to cauliflower than broccoli. The vegetable is most known for its striking appearance with a chartreuse green colour and natural fractal pattern. Each bud…
I found this old typewriter in an antique store and was immediately attracted to the graphic patterns of the keys and actuation mechanisms. I wondered about the history of the typewriter, who used it, and what was written on it. Were they imaginative stories, love letters, exploration of history, inspiring…