The idea for this series came to me while visiting the Pompidou Centre in Paris. This fabulous contemporary art gallery has a very distinct architecture. The distinctive green "Sortie" signs appear at every possible exit and everywhere that you can conceive as a path to an exit. What caught my attention was the frequency of the signs and the variables of the doorways, in what one would expect to be uniform architectural elements. I continued the pursuit of sortie images while visiting other museums. One of three books of photographs from the 'French collection'. This book documents "Sortie"...

I have to confess that at various points in my life I was addicted to TV, Television. It consumed huge blocks of my life, with little to show for the experience. I occassinaly carried this addiction into my art endeavours. It was a way of confronting the rabbit eared monster. The first of these images grew out of my explorations of image manipulation which I published as "Outside the Box." Those images were deliberately altered to echo the look of traditional print making techniques. "As Seen On TV" evolved into its own series and subsequent book. I applied various means to effect the...

This was a return to a theme I had explored 20 years earlier. Like many such early works, it was short lived, as it lacked direction or sense of purpose. The concept was retained and lay dormant, waiting for a different sensibility on my part to explore this theme again. Images were collected during 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. The first images were collected using a film camera. I began photographing with a digital camera in 2005. I decided to terminate the series in 2006. I had other images that were now of higher priority, other themes and other technical ideas that required exploration. The...

My wife and I were visiting my brother in law on the occasion of his birthday. Her present was an offer to paint his bathroom. While they were upstairs discussing color choices I found myself at loose ends with little to occupy myself. Both newspapers we subscribe to had been read during the ferry crossing. I had forgotten to take a book and there were few magazines of interest. Well aware on how long a discussion of color can take, I decided to use the situation to see what I could find in the way of photographs inside the townhouse. The result is series of images, dominated by the close-up....

As a student in 1974, in response to a challenge from an instructor, I devised a means of comparing multiple variables with a graphic image. I was fortunate to find a a former Engineering student, now studying in Fine Arts to write a program that ran on the Amdahl main frame computer at the University of Alberta. In due course the project had a life of its own, divorced from course requirements. This period is represented by the first half of the book. The second half, figurative drawings arose from the loss of a photograph in a University sponsored exhibition. I choose payment in computer...

Random Walks . . . Paris comes from the kind of travel undertaken by my wife and I. We have no set itinerary, no guides, no arranged tours and minimal hotel reservations. The "random walk" concept came to mind a number of years ago as a possible title for an exhibition of photographs of a different travel experience. The title has been resurrected to present the explorations during our trip to Paris. It encompasses day-to-day events and is organized around some recurring themes that evolved during the 10 day experience. One of three books of photographs from the 'French collection'. This book...

My first collection of digitally manipulated photographs. The interest in manipulating photographs goes back to student days in 1969 to 1970. My interest in using computers goes back to primitive graphics created in 1974 to 1976. The practical combining of these two interests lay dormant until 1992, when I attended the Kodak Center of Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine. An intense week that reset my life and photographic directions. There were still a few roadblocks, the principal being the lack of a reasonably priced printing device and some archival component to the ink. Both of these...

It is not uncommon that a child will play more with the box, than with the contents. In my case I enjoyed and derived great benefit from seeing great art close up. But, I also had a great fascination with the structures that housed the art in Paris, and the secrets that lay in open view. Those secrets take the form of form, pattern, color and detail. Using these components, one can create a new reality; a reality that can only be seen through isolation and exaggeration. Two other themes of photographs have been published separately as, Random Walks . . . Paris and as Sortie . . . The Running...

This photography project had two sources of inspiration. One was the thought that I was able to walk the streets of Paris, taking hundreds of photographs, but didn't seem to have the capacity to do so at home. The other was the motivation to become physically active by walking around my neighborhood and city. I began twin projects as blogs on the Internet. This one was called, The Forced March, the other, The Dysfunctional Photographer. The title, The Forced March, represents my need for physical activity and, the title, The Dysfunctional Photographer, reflects my need to rediscover the...

This photography project had two sources of inspiration. One was the thought that I was able to walk the streets of Paris, taking hundreds of photographs, but didn't seem to have the capacity to do so at home. The other was the motivation to become physically active by walking around my neighbourhood and city. I began twin projects as blogs on the Internet. One was called, The Dysfunctional Photographer, the other, The Forced March. The title, The Dysfunctional Photographer, reflects my need to rediscover the photographic possibilities in day-to-day living and the title, The Forced March, my...