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Q’s Bio

I will endeavor to spare you the crap and cut to the quick.

I grew up on Hornby Island and was home schooled. A blessing and a curse on both counts…

I have done lots of things over my very short life thus far call it a Jack of… master of…?) I have always felt that one should have an understanding of the world in a hands on sense… I spent a number of years as a fire-fighter and first-responder Yet none of the jobs or career paths ever really fit very well, until I started shooting for a living. It was the first time in my life I truly felt like I was making a difference It delights me to no end that people enjoy seeing the world and themselves through my eye… 

I like to make people ponder and perhaps even change their point of view… 

I find the whole fashion and media industry repulsive and yet so seductive, though perhaps not for the reasons most would presume. To me it is so very insidious, in the way that the industry undermines how we all feel about ourselves, our bodies and lives: Are you cool enough? sexy enough? slim and fit enough? So when I can show someone that, yes they, them, themselves are in fact X (fill in x for whatever it is that I see that makes them happy), 

I hope and pray that maybe that will make a difference… 

I desperately want to change and grow and expand and, and, and, and… My biggest fear is that I am not going to be able to make it happen, or my big chance will slip me by as I •about trying to make things perfect… 

I just want to do what it is that I do. To the outside world that might only look like a few pretty pictures of caught moments in time… To me it is everything! My everything is in making these little poems every time I release the shutter… and yes I fuck up. a lot. A LOT! but I do my best to hide that from view. And somehow people keep coming back to see what it is that I have come up with next… 

So the next time you think about that quick little snap-shot that I took of you… Know that even though it looked quick and effortless, I have spent every waking hour for the past four and a half years trying to master just that. 

“The Instant”

Ah, to master the instant when something is happening… (Wow what a dream to have.) Now I don’t know that I will ever truly become a master of the moment… and all I can really hope to do is master the moments that I do have. 

Lets go back to the instant for an instant.

To me it is so complex and elusive. It is what I live for, and what I want to remember…  and most Importantly I want to live my life in a way that I would like to remember. As when all is said and done all we have left is our memories…

The instant.

it is so complex and elusive. It is what I live for, and what I  want to remember…  More importantly I want to live my live in a way that I would like to remember it. As when all is said and done all we have left is our memories…

So here is to finding a more moments worth remembering

Light and Shadow and how they come into play to make a scene… This is something that I am just beginning to understand, let alone master….