Here is my photographic history... My first photographic experience was in Grade 3 where I took photos and developed film in Terrace, B.C., in 1969-70. After that, I had occasional access to the family polaroid camera, but I took only a handful of images over several years, though in November 1970, my father visited and I shot off a pile of half-frame images at Ward's Island in Toronto, one of those images are here.

Starting in 1974, I borrowed my mom's old Kodak camera which took 620 film, clicking off perhaps 10 rolls of film, including shots of the CN Tower under construction. For Christmas that year, I received a Kodak Instamatic camera, 110 format. I took hundreds of photos with that camera.

In 1978, I inherited my grandfather's 35mm camera, a Praktika LTL SLR. Virtually all of my early photos posted here - to 1985 - were taken with that camera.

In 1985, I purchased a Nikon FE2 in New York City, and that was the camera I used up to circa 2005.

I more or less stopped using the Nikon in favour of borrowed pocket digital cameras. My 2006 New Orleans photos were taken with one of these cameras. And while I would dust off the Nikon for Christmas and my daughter's birthday, my near-continuous photographic habit which started in 1974 had effectively ended by around 1994.

BUT.... at the end of 2007, I received a Canon PowerShot A720IS and over the span of the next few years, my interest in photography had been reborn. To December 2010, that camera had recorded some 20,000 images until it finally died.

I moved up to one of the better pocket cameras available, the Canon PowerShot S95. As well, I started to take photos here and there with the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone.

In December 2011, I traded in my S95 for the latest of that line of cameras - the Canon PowerShot S100, a fabulous camera that also shoots full HD 1080i video.

Finally, in March 2012, I purchased a professional-grade camera, a Canon EOS 7D. I used both cameras a lot until the S100 got wrecked while I was on the Humber River photographing the flood of July 2013, so I almost exclusively shot on the 7D, with an occasional iPhone 5 shot. (I later obtained a Canon PowerShot S110, though I use that rarely.)

Then, in September 2018, the 7D pretty well bit the dust after I pushed its limits weather-wise once too often. I still use it occasionally, but it only works in manual mode. I used the S110 a bit as a replacement camera and I picked up a Canon 5D Mark II from a colleague, and I used as my main camera though to January 2020, when it abruptly bit the dust. With that camera, I shot with a 70-200mm lens until I got a 24-110mm lens November 2019. While the 7D still functions, albeit in manual, I picked up a Canon 6D Mark II to be my main camera January 2020.

I have no particular pretensions to this being "art": I often simply document things, record events, and photograph things which, well, catch my eye. And if what I see catches your eye too, that's cool. If anything, these photos are my love letter to Toronto, where the majority of these photos were taken.

My main "philosophy" is that composition is the key thing to photography, the camera used is beside the point. Obviously, present-day pocket cameras have their limitations, but nothing like the limitations which cameras like the Kodak Instamatic had in the 1970s.

Pocket cameras, especially the S95, S100, S110, have what for me is an enormous advantage - they can be carried conveniently and inconspicuously on your person and brought out when the moment demands. It's far less clunky than the SLRs I used to have, let alone the DSLRs I now have. But these days I rarely take out the S110.