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 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.

I remember taking a camera apart when I was a child to see how it worked.. To learn its magic. My first camera was a pin-hole camera that I made as an elementry school project. 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've loved photographs all my life. I have an incredibly large recollection of the photographs that I have seen. I'm a bit of a student to the history and evolution of photography and the photographers who explored the format.

I learned how to photograph at about a dollar a shot.. So I'm more of a 'sniper' than a 'machine gunner' who sprays and prays. I tend to be very deliberate in what I photograph.

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

I try to keep my photography honest the best I can. I don't add or remove. I don't use AI to alter the contents.. If my photo isn't good enough for me to complete, I'll just go and shoot another one.

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

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

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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.

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.