"The soul never thinks without a picture."

—Aristotle

I BEGAN SHOOTING with a basic Pentax, purchased in Toronto in 1973, that then sat in its box for many years until I began noticing the cloud formations from the fire escape of my Vancouver apartment (see the Water & Clouds of Southwestern British Columbia album). I added wide-angle and telephoto lenses and a tripod, and learned a lot during two years as a member of the Burnaby Photographic Society.

While living in the Marpole area of Vancouver, I began making photo-art greeting cards and have sold thousands of them; they have been sent to many corners of the world. Enlargements hang in offices and homes in Vancouver, and my images have been used in books, magazines and in advertising. I have participated in many craft fairs and several times in Artists in Our Midst days. My series of folk-art rural mailbox images appeared in Geist magazine and in Beautiful British Columbia magazine, and from there became part of the basis of a Canada Post series of postage stamps.

I now use a digital camera, which I take with me wherever I go; it is an extension of me, a way of being in the world; I respond with it to what I am seeing. What I look for in my day-to-day environment is beauty, shape, colour, pattern, humour, connectedness of the sky and the earth (the above and the below), and always, depth and quality of light.

I enjoy what I do; I hope you will too.

— Neall Calvert

"In life learn art; in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also."

— Friedrich Holderlin, 1770-1843

PS: See also my writing websites:

Ursa*Major

Essays on literature, poets, poetry, history, creativity, karma, nature, and growing up.

Ursa*Major

"Through To The New": A Dialogue with Higher Self

On the journey of healing out of addiction, chronic fatigue syndrome and PTSD.

And:

neallcalvert-annexus.blogspot.com

A sample month from a year's worth of numerological advice from a top Vancouver numerologist. Each month comes with a beautiful image from nature. Digital copies of the whole book, edited by myself, totalling more than 900 pages, are for sale for $50.