it as a career. Upon graduating, though, he decided to test it out.
“After university,” he says, “sort of as a graduation gift for myself,
I said, OK, I might take one year and give photography a try.”
Soon he was a full-time student of the medium. He began
making long exposure landscapes using medium and large-for-
mat film inspired by the work of Michael Kenna. He worked as
a commercial photographer, largely specializing in architecture,
before eventually founding the Vancouver Photo Workshops.
This allowed him to work side by side with and learn directly
from master photographers from a variety of disciplines, includ-
ing Greg Gorman, Jay Maisel, Joe McNally and Gregory
Heisler. He still runs the workshops today, which is part of
his recipe for success. It frees him to keep his work utterly
Lofoten, Norway. “The XF in particular has freed me up
by being able to go back to handheld shooting. Even if I
end up taking the final shot on a tripod, at the very least
I’m able to walk the site when I first get there with the XF
in hand.”
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