In 1979 I started working for C.N. Railway (laying track). With some of the money from my first two pay cheques I decided to buy a Minolta film camera and a few roles of film but I didn’t take many photos back then because I was working 14 to 16 hours a day (depending on our location). Also there was no place close enough to process or buy film.

A few years later (November 01 / 2006 to be exact) I got into a construction accident and W.C.B. (Workers Compensation Board) now known as Worksafe B.C. wanted four 5″ by 7″ photos of the injuries that I sustained to my face from the incident (each photo from a different view), and that I had to get them done at a photo studio because they needed the receipts for their records. So I found a photo studio and told the guy there what I wanted, then he grabbed his camera and pointed it at me, pressed the shutter release button four times, then held out his hand and said…

“That’ll be $275.00 please, plus tax”.

The first thing that came to mind was

“WOW! I’m in the wrong business”.

In 2008 I got a small settlement from W.C.B. for that incident and I started buying camera gear, photograhy books, and photo editing software like Photoshop and Lightroom. After a while my photos started to look Okey but I still wasn’t happy with them.

Below is a sample of some of my early photography efforts.