I am an amateur photographer from Alberta, Canada. As a profession, I am a teacher and I use to be an ecologist. I also paint with oils and write, mostly Fantasy. I have been taking photographs since I was a kid. My first attempts were highly unfocussed and poorly framed, but I still enjoy them because I remember how their subjects actually looked. Most of my subjects are still frame and have some component of nature or culture in them.

My photos are best viewed as sets. My first set is of Jedburgh School, Saskatchewan, a historic one-room Prairie school built in the 1920's to teach Ukrainian homesteaders from whom I am descended. I took photos of this school and the once-village now-hamlet of Jedburgh since the school is finally disintegrating from neglect (nearly ninety years after it was built) and I wanted to preserve a record of it before it collapsed.

Please enjoy my photos. All images or works published by me are protected under international Creative Commons copyright. You may use them without modification and non-commercially so long as you attribute them to me and link to my Flickr pages. Flickr saves copyright notices from CC version 4, but please use the corresponding latest CC version.

If you would like to contact me about any of my work please feel free to comment on my photo pages.

To learn more about me, refer to my blog, Digital Substitute. I am also on Twitter as @stefras and YouTube as originalstefras.

Thank you for visiting my Flickr site. Leave a comment if you enjoy what you see.