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"Art Reminds us of our Humanity"







I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark II (Yeah New!!) and a Canon 50D for digital and Canon EOS 10s and E0S 33(Elan 7) film cameras.

I have been taking photographs all of my life. When I was about 6 years old, I had a little Camera that took square black and white pictures and you had to spool the film into it. Then I graduated to a Kodak 126 Camera, that my dad had discarded (took those groovy little square flashbulbs). Eventually I started taking pictures with a Kodak 110 (Tall Flash that you flipped when you used up the first 4 or 5 flashes), then a Kodak Disc Camera. For much of my adult life we got by with a couple of different 35mm Point and Shoot Cameras.

We bought our first Digital Camera (Canon S5IS) 5 years ago, the summer before the birth of our youngest child.

I like to capture pictures of the people and things around me, including my own children who never fail to amaze me.

I comment as much as I can on the work of others and I invite you to give me honest feedback (that is how we improve right?)

My Gear:
Cameras:
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 50D
Canon 10S (Film)
Canon EOS 33 (Elan 7) film
Canon S5IS Powershot (My wife likes this one)


Glass:
Canon EF 24-70mm F/2.8 L
Canon EF 70-200mm USM f/4 L IS (My new favourite Walk-around lens)
Canon EF 135mm f/2 L
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 (If I could only have one lens it would be this one!)
Canon EF 100mm f/2

Light:
Canon 580EX II speedlight
Canon 430EX II speedlight
Canon TTL Off-Camera Cord
2x Alien Bees 800, with shoot through umbrellas
2x Bowens 200WS Studio Lights , with black and white umbrellas, Barn Doors, Gels, Snoot and Rear light scoop.



"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."

Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

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"If we find ourselves wih a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." ~ C.S. Lewis

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