I started my career a little more than 50 years ago as a reporter/photographer with the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.

After four years at the Herald, I joined Canadian Press in Halifax and three years later was transferred to Vancouver. During my first few months in Vancouver, I was frequently asked about my home province of Nova Scotia and whether I had any pictures to show.

Although I had worked for seven years as a photographer up to that point, I realized that the only pictures I had were generated on various news assignments around the province. I had very little that showed the beauty of the province.

When I returned to Nova Scotia after a 10 year absence, I made up for lost time, and today my personal collection of colour slides of Nova Scotia numbers over 500,000. Since switching totally to digital photography about five years ago, I've added another 100,000 images.

Since 1986, I've worked as a photographer under contract to Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture and Heritage. Each year, I travel upwards of 20,000 kilometers annually and shoot 15 to 20-thousand new images. In 23 years with Tourism, there are not too many roads in Nova Scotia that I have not be up and down at least a dozen times and I always find something new to photograph.

In the late fall and winter, when the photo assignments are not as frequent, I turn my attention to creating audio visual shows for Nova Scotia Tourism. I've shown these multi-screen presentations, often incorporating live performers, to hundreds of audiences throughout Canada, the United States and Europe and as far away as Japan.

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