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  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Kensington market - Dancing Days Mur..onto
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Stone and Wenus, Shop Window, Toront..1998
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Stone Age Rock and Roll Poster, Kens..2009
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Hairdresser's Shop, Kensington Marke..2009
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Courage My Love, Kensington Market, ..2009
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Strange Street Bus Shelter, Queen St..1998
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Coral Sea Fish Store, Kensington Mar..2009
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Chinese Fan, Shop Window, Spadina Av...jpg
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Victims of Fashion, Shop Window, Que..1998
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Victims of Fashion 2, Queen Street E..onto
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    RoachaRama storefront, Kensington Ma..2009
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Toronto Jail Parkette - a thing of b..auty
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Cirque du Poulet, Street Art, Kensin..2009
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Auto Sprinkler, Kensington Market, T..2009
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Carlaw Carburations, Queen Street Ea..1998
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Max and Son Meat Market, Kensington ..2008
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Ontario Giant Runt Club, Window, Blo..1992
  • Columns of the highly underrated Toronto Convention Centre
    Conventions.jpg
  • Portrait in black and white of Moses. He is 'the hardest working man in Kensington Market'. An ambitious small business owner/entrepreneur that started on the street, he now has his own store.<br />
Photo made in Kensington Market, Toronto
    Moses at Kensington Market jpg
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Kensington Market window - Toronto
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Reactive Ink - Kensington Market - T..onto
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Kensington Market window - Toronto
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Kensington Market - Toronto - Genesi...jpg
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Kensington Market window - Toronto .jpg
  • Toronto Streets - Suzuki Music Studio entrance on Queen Street West.<br />
Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Toronto Streets - Suzuki Music Studi..ance
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Waving Cats - Maneki-Neko (招き猫- Spad..onto
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Antique Store Window on Queen Street.. jpg
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Cincuentenario de la Coronacion -12 ..onto
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Caution - Eternal Flame - Nathan Phi..2006
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    The Silver Dollar Room facade Toront..aphs
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Kensington Market detail - Toronto 2009
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Only in Paradise Café, 360 Queen Str..2004
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    The Real Jerk Caribbean Restaurant -..onto
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Weapons Training for the Whole Famil..onto
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Eeezel at Gwartzmans Art Supplies on...jpg
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Direct Line
  • Black and white location portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Duam on their 30th anniversary.<br />
Photo made in Kensington Market, Toronto
    Mr. and Mrs. Duam
  • Portrait in black and white of Moses. He is 'the hardest working man in Kensington Market'. An ambitious small business owner/entrepreneur that started on the street, he now has his own store.<br />
Seen in front of a Marcus Garvey wall hanging displayed in his store.<br />
Photo made in Kensington Market, Toronto
    Moses with Marcus Garvey jpg
  • Black and white location portrait of Mike at the Beaches in Toronto
    Mike
  • Toronto is a city defined by neighborhoods and each of those has unique features that have called to me over the years. This is personal work made as I walk with my camera exploring these locations and enjoying the simple treasures I find. Many of them have now vanished in time.
    Nicole at Kensington Market. jpg
  • Urban Joy
  • 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 />
 <br />
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
  • After The Storm 13.jpg
  • Cailey-1.jpg
  • After The Storm 11.jpg
  • After The Storm 05.jpg
  • After The Storm 10.jpg
  • After The Storm 01.jpg
  • After The Storm 04.jpg
  • Cailey-8.jpg
  • After The Storm 02.jpg
  • After The Storm 12.jpg
  • After The Storm 09.jpg
  • After The Storm 07.jpg
  • After The Storm 08.jpg
  • After The Storm 03.jpg
  • Cailey-9.jpg
  • get up_.jpg
  • Lake Ontario.jpg
  • After The Storm 06.jpg
  • The Earth Water and Sky make a powerful meeting here on the shore of Lake Ontario
    Lakeshore Ice 01.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
    Distant Horizons8.jpg
  • Untitled 03. jpg
  • The Earth Water and Sky make a powerful meeting here on the shore of Lake Ontario
    Lakeshore Ice 02.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
  • 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
  • Untitled 02.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
  • Untitled 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 17.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
  • Chappy traveled from his home in  Lake Cowal, Australia to Toronto where he confronted Peter Munk, CEO, Barrick Mines, about the impact of Barrick's mine on his community. Munk and his entourage dismissed him with smirks and jokes.<br />
Indigenous owners and environmental activists have run a 14-year campaign to close the gold mine. They argue it poses large health risks to the local community, is an immense drain on scarce freshwater resources and poisons the environment with cyanide and other toxic wastes.
    Portrait of Chappy
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