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Musket-Fire
This photograph was taken at Fort Erie Siege 2012. It was recorded on Fugi 400 film with one single frame. It will be part of a historical art exhibit in Kingston, this summer.
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Back lit images can be very dramatic, especially when there are strong shapes, contrasts, and compositions.
World War 1 Centennial
The First World War of 1914–1918 was the bloodiest conflict in Canadian History, taking the lives of nearly 61,000 Canadians. It erased romantic notions of war, introducing slaughter on a massive scale, and instilled a fear of foreign military involvement that would last until the Second World War. The great achievements of Canadian soldiers on battlefields such as Ypres, Vimy and Passchendaele, however, ignited a sense of national pride and a confidence that Canada could stand on its own, apart from the British Empire, on the world stage. The war also deepened the divide between French and English Canada, and marked the beginning of widespread state intervention in society and the economy
Laura Secord Day
Jim Hill from the Niagara Parks Commission fires a musket in celebration of Laura Secord Day. The Proclamation
was read by Lord Mayor Pat Darte, proclaiming June 18th as the day we commemorate and honour our true heroine,
Laura Secord.
Shadowland
Shadowland is an area or region of shadows, phantoms, unreality's, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination. I used this definition to a give a visual interpretation to the tittle "Shadowland". These complex compositions are naturally occurring. Intuitiveness and serendipity are the key components in locating these shadows, and uncertainties, where two or more non-congruent themes are juxtaposed together. When one enters the the Shadowland, strange forces surround your emanation, and sometimes they keep you there.
