About

The About page is the hardest page on any website that I find is the hardest to write. What is it that people want to read when they come to an About page anyway?

Let's see if I can answer that question.

Perhaps it interests you to know I have fiddled around with photography since I was 11 years old? My grandfather gave me my first camera (a 35mm Pentax SLR, which I still have) in which I would have to select the settings for manually. I remember taking photos during a Grade 6 class trip to Pitt Polder in Pitt Meadows, BC. There was a beaver swimming in the water and I snapped as many photos as I could before he dove under the water. I would like to think of that day as the first day I found a new passion.

I have not been into photography as much as I would have liked to since the beginning, but that all changed when I purchased my first digital camera. Yup, it was a point and shoot by Hewlett Packard. I think it was not even a megapixel in resolution.

From there I upgraded to a Canon point and shoot (Canon Powershot A60). I could finally play with the manual controls of a digital camera again. Playing with the Shutter speed and Aperture without having the camera's brain do it for me was a turning point, I think, in my photography.

Ever since purchasing my Canon dSLR, I've been pretty gun-ho about getting out as much as possible with my camera and working on my photography. Every so often I look back at my previous photography and compare it with what I am doing now and see a large improvement. I try and learn something new, in regards to photography, every day I can.

Media Accredited Events

In an effort to gain more photographic experience and network with people within the photography industry, I have been looking at various ways of being media accredited for various events around the Metro Vancouver area. Events I have attended as media (for photography) have been:

• LG FIS Snowboard World Cup 2009 at Cypress Mountain
• Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival 2009 (WSSF)
• Hockey Canada Cup - Women's Hockey 2009
• Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympic Games
• Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival 2010

I am always on the lookout for more events which I can attend as a photographer, not only to increase my experience and portfolio, but to also do what I love doing most; capture the world around me digitally.

Published Works

One common goal among photographers is to be published. Seeing your photographic talents in newspapers, magazines or books is a great experience when it happens.

• Off The Chain: Insider's History of Snowboarding - 1 Photo, Page 112
• Canada Heritage Magazine - 1 Photo, Vol XII #4

My Current Gear

Some people are interested in what sort of camera gear people use, so I thought I would list what I have here:

• Canon EOS 7D (main)
• Canon EOS 450D [Digital Rebel XSi] (backup)


• Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM
• Canon EF 17-40mm f4.0L USM
• Canon 50mm f1.8


• Canon EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS (semi-retired)
• Canon EF 70-300mm III USM (retired)


• Sigma EF-530 DG Super


• ThinkTank Streetwalker Pro (main backpack)
• Lowepro TopLoad Zoom AW (photowalk bag)