I have been interested in photography for many years but with greatly varying levels of intensity, starting as a teenager developing my own 127 B&W film and doing (rather small) contact prints in a basement darkroom. I progressed through other cameras, including a brief fling with Polaroid (she was very spontaneous, but faded quickly). I have a 38 year old Pentax MX with an assortment of lenses that has been my mainstay for many years and hope to get a film scanner to convert a large slide and negative collection.

However, it is digital photography and flickr that have really rekindled my interest in photography and made me appreciate what a large and diverse collection of photographers there are out there in the flickrverse. Viewing the works of others has given me a strong desire to "improve my game" and take more than the usual - to experiment, take chances, to be subjected to both criticism and praise. But be careful with the criticism, I'm armed and dangerous:

I'm now retired from 24 years of working for a provincial health department and am enrolled at NSCAD doing photography and film.

My wife (tag ccpoulin) posts some of her pictures on this stream and to my chagrin they sometimes are more popular than my own.

I am a member of the Utata flickr group:

and Utata dot org

People have found these photos to be particularly interesting, if you want to check them out. Or you can scan a whole bunch by checking here.I have also started mapping locations where photos were taken and you might want to check that out or