I am new to the world of submitting photographs for publication or exhibition, and so am just putting my toe in the water with this call for submission.
I am a retired professional portrait photographer, who has also taught photography and retouching for most of my nearly 40 year career.
I am a member of PPOC (Professional Photographers of Canada) and they have designated me a Master of Photographic Arts and a Fellow of the Professional Photographers of Canada - BC region.
I have taught at a number of private institutions offering classes in various aspects of image making, and I still teach Family and Child Portraiture to students of a full time professional photography program. In addition, I take on occasional private students. So, I am still a photo educator.
I'm very interested in images and image making, and the story that that image is telling. And now that I am retired, I am enjoying being freed of the constraints that making commissioned work carries. I thoroughly enjoyed making portraits for my clients, but now I'm having fun enjoying the 'rush' of making images just to please myself. Nothing is Ordinary, is the motto I make images by, and so I find there is frequently an interesting image to be made wherever I find myself. Sometimes that's in the kitchen, sometimes out walking the dog, and sometimes, I just take the camera and go make images.
