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  • Going to the beach, setting up and then packing it all up to go home requires some effort. This woman's posture embodied that labor (of love) for me as she was leaving the beach on the boardwalk.
    Working the beach.jpg
  • Although Toronto is not a beach town like Vancouver - she does have a few big ones. The Beach area in the east of Toronto is one of those - there's something here for everyone - like a good mother, Lake Ontario provides for all.
    Summer at the lake.jpg
  • This group is being put through their paces by two coaches driving an intense, and hot, workout. In Toronto the beach area of Lake Ontario is a favourite spot for recreation, sports, leisure and meditation. The easy precision of this group was fascinating to watch.
    Lining up for a workout on the shore...jpg
  • Walking along the sands of this beach, these two teenagers become children again. Water seems to return us to our source - on many different levels.
    Two guys on the shoreline.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water.jpg
  • It's a special experience for a child when a parent introduces them to a large body of water like the enormous Lake Ontario - it's like a reminder of something infinitely bigger than us - that we are part of.
    Father and son.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water16.jpg
  • There's an innocent kind of awkwardness in this boy's posture as he runs - yet the joyous sense of freedom comes through - running in the sand along the water's edge.
    Running at water's edge.jpg
  • Walking along the shoreline helps clear away the cobwebs, opens us to new ideas and polishes the mirror of the soul.
    So much space.jpg
  • Coming back.jpg
  • Ripples.jpg
  • The Edge.jpg
  • Sometimes we make photos unconsciously - that was the case here. This image was made  in 2015 - but it wasn't until 4 years later that I 'saw' it in my catalogue waiting to share it's subtle message. What tugged at my heart was the dynamic between these two sisters. The little one feels secure knowing her big sister is close at hand to protect her - she feels safe. It's the combined vulnerability and strength of the older one that moved me - the archetype of the older sister....the boss.
    Sisters.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water21.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water06.jpg
  • Black and white location portrait of Mike at the Beaches in Toronto
    Mike
  • Sometimes the elements of a scene are given to us - a gift really - that's how this scene felt to me - I feel called to these 'spaces' - drawn to interpret their unique power - their emptiness.
    On the beach.jpg
  • After The Storm 13.jpg
  • The Earth Water and Sky make a powerful meeting here on the shore of Lake Ontario
    Lakeshore Ice 01.jpg
  • After The Storm 10.jpg
  • After The Storm 11.jpg
  • After The Storm 01.jpg
  • After The Storm 04.jpg
  • After The Storm 05.jpg
  • After The Storm 09.jpg
  • After The Storm 07.jpg
  • After The Storm 08.jpg
  • After The Storm 03.jpg
  • The Earth Water and Sky make a powerful meeting here on the shore of Lake Ontario
    Lakeshore Ice 02.jpg
  • After The Storm 02.jpg
  • After The Storm 12.jpg
  • After The Storm 06.jpg
  • Lake Ontario.jpg
  • The Meditation series is an ongoing personal project of mine. It was born six years ago during my morning walks on the shore of Lake Ontario near to where I live. This easy access allows me to study the Lake at close range during all the seasons and various weather conditions we have here. It also allows me to become thoroughly absorbed and influence by this beautiful, living force at my doorstep
    Distant Horizons8.jpg
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  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 21.jpg
  • After The Storm 14.jpg
  • The Meditation series is an ongoing personal project of mine. It was born six years ago during my morning walks on the shore of Lake Ontario near to where I live. This easy access allows me to study the Lake at close range during all the seasons and various weather conditions we have here. It also allows me to become thoroughly absorbed and influence by this beautiful, living force at my doorstep
    Meditations 20.jpg
  • The Meditation series is an ongoing personal project of mine. It was born six years ago during my morning walks on the shore of Lake Ontario near to where I live. This easy access allows me to study the Lake at close range during all the seasons and various weather conditions we have here. It also allows me to become thoroughly absorbed and influence by this beautiful, living force at my doorstep
    Meditations 13.jpg
  • The HORIZONS portfolio is a series of colour photographs I started many years ago, when as a resident of Toronto, I found myself being drawn repeatedly to the shores of Lake Ontario.....to the vast, open spaces created by an inland sea. Over time, the Lake became my teacher, my guide and a testing ground I returned to during my evolution as a photographer and, more importantly, as a human being.<br />
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A few years ago, I moved to live beside Lake Ontario. Now, I'm completely immersed in digital photography and my work as a portrait photographer continues to unfold.  Before my work day I usually go for a long morning walk by the Lake (with my camera and tripod) to explore the shoreline. From these explorations the HORIZONS portfolio has emerged in it's recent incarnation. Slowly, I'm waking up to the beauty and importance of Water, to the silent power of the wounded Lake that stretches in it's immensity from my doorstep to the infinity of the Horizon.<br />
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Water is life and if there isn't already enough strain on the waters of our planet after the Gulf oil spill, the recent nuclear catastrophe in Japan sends the clear, urgent warning that we are poisoning our water reserves. Considering we don't know where the point of no return in this process, we are gambling with the very foundation of our lives. Folly doesn't begin to describe this descent.<br />
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Yesterday I participated in a Water Ceremony at the Grand River near Six Nations Reserve, done to honour the life giving waters and to support a group of women, mainly from the Six Nations reserve, who are walking the length of the Grand River. After the ceremony one of the Elders shared with us a poignant message that she had received from the water....it said  "we're still here doing our part, always giving, always supporting life as our Creator instructed us to do at the beginning of time; when is humanity going to do it's part ?" ...... Good question.
    HORIZON no.2 .jpg
  • The Meditation series is an ongoing personal project of mine. It was born six years ago during my morning walks on the shore of Lake Ontario near to where I live. This easy access allows me to study the Lake at close range during all the seasons and various weather conditions we have here. It also allows me to become thoroughly absorbed and influence by this beautiful, living force at my doorstep
    Meditations 39.jpg
  • The Meditation series is an ongoing personal project of mine. It was born six years ago during my morning walks on the shore of Lake Ontario near to where I live. This easy access allows me to study the Lake at close range during all the seasons and various weather conditions we have here. It also allows me to become thoroughly absorbed and influence by this beautiful, living force at my doorstep
    Meditations 17.jpg
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  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water07.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water11.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 18.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water18
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 03.jpg
  • The Meditation series is an ongoing personal project of mine. It was born six years ago during my morning walks on the shore of Lake Ontario near to where I live. This easy access allows me to study the Lake at close range during all the seasons and various weather conditions we have here. It also allows me to become thoroughly absorbed and influence by this beautiful, living force at my doorstep
    Meditations 22.jpg
  • Untitled 03.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 06.jpg
  • Untitled 02.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water10.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water09.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 12.jpg
  • The Meditation series is an ongoing personal project of mine. It was born six years ago during my morning walks on the shore of Lake Ontario near to where I live. This easy access allows me to study the Lake at close range during all the seasons and various weather conditions we have here. It also allows me to become thoroughly absorbed and influence by this beautiful, living force at my doorstep
    Meditations 14.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water15.jpg
  • The Meditation series is an ongoing personal project of mine. It was born six years ago during my morning walks on the shore of Lake Ontario near to where I live. This easy access allows me to study the Lake at close range during all the seasons and various weather conditions we have here. It also allows me to become thoroughly absorbed and influence by this beautiful, living force at my doorstep
    Meditations 15.jpg
  • THE CREATIVE GIFT 2. jpg
  • Cailey-1.jpg
  • Cailey-8.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 16.jpg
  • Cailey-9.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 15.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 24.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 14.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 11.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 09.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 01.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 19.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 25.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 27.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 13.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 07.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 17.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 28.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 29.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 26.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 04.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 10.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water22.jpg
  • Lakeshores, shorelines, water .jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 05.jpg
  • For me Horizons represent new or unlimited possibilities. These images of Lake Ontario grew out of the ongoing work that I have done for an Indigenous organization here in Canada. In many cultures, water is seen as life giving, transformative and sacred.
    HORIZONS 20.jpg
  • The Earth Water and Sky make a powerful meeting here on the shore of Lake Ontario
    Lakeshore Ice 10.jpg
  • The Earth Water and Sky make a powerful meeting here on the shore of Lake Ontario
    Untitled 01.jpg
  • The Earth Water and Sky make a powerful meeting here on the shore of Lake Ontario
    Lakeshore Ice 11
  • The Earth Water and Sky make a powerful meeting here on the shore of Lake Ontario
    Lakeshore Ice 06.jpg
  • Location portrait of Mike at the Beaches, Toronto
    Location portrait of Mike at the Bea..onto
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