Bird Magic Photography

About

I am a Fort Mckay First Nations photographer of birds.

I primarily photograph in and around the greater Edmonton Alberta region.

I've been formally trained and educated in all aspects of film photography, darkroom procedures and methods.

I know how to work a camera and I know how to work computers.

I love photographs.. I've taken over a million of them.

“Are you experienced?

Or have you ever been experienced?

Well, I have.”

~ Jimi Hendrix

My Photography

I remember taking a camera apart when I was a child to see how it worked.. To learn its magic. As a school project I made my very first pin-hole camera. My first love was a Pentax 35mm film camera.. But I was unable to put together a darkroom for the complete process due to cost expenses..

I learned how to photograph at about a dollar a shot.

I know a lot about computers and this couples nicely with my digital photography today.

I try to keep my photography honest. I don't add or remove. I don't use AI to alter the contents.

My primary objective is to capture a beautiful image of a bird or birds and to bring it to fruition.

“The deeper you go, the higher you fly.

The higher you fly, the deeper you go.

So come on!”

~ The Beatles

Birds

I have immense love and respect for the birds that I photograph.

For years I've been the steward of around 30 nest boxes just outside of Elk Island and another six boxes located in Hermitage Park in Edmonton with a zero vacancy rate during the breeding season.

I have rescued and saved numerous birds. Nature must take its own way but I will step in and intervene when I believe that it is prudent to do so. I often catch birds at the park that have become entangled in fishing line.. I have a way with birds and it's usually a quick and painless operation to release them from their doom.

“The birds will sing that you are part of everything”

~ The Beatles

This Web Site

I wrote the code for this web site using HTML, Javascript and PHP and it is driven by a MYSQL database that is running on my own dedicated Apache web server.
I did ALL of this.

Images in this website are low quality JPEG images that have been optimized for the internet from very high resolution TIFF master files. These TIFF masters have more resolution and a larger color range that can only be fully appreciated in print form from today's best printer technologies.

“Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round... Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.”

~ BLACK ELK (Warrior, visionary, shaman)