I am currently working at the Huntsville Forester. Its a three week unpaid internship where I will be working for the paper and a magazine called Beyond the city. This was my first assignment to shoot the figure skating at the Ontario Winter Games for the editor before she could give me the job. It ran front page.
During my first study week I shot the fall fair in Bracebridge Ont. I had a great time shooting the fairest-wheel, a lot of great colours from the lights when the sun goes down.
In the Belleville Bay View mall I met a group of seniors that get together every morning for breakfast at Irene’s Diner. This is how I met the “muddbrothers” Walter & Dave Mudd and Frances Scully .
Doug Leigh lit the flame in Huntsville, Ont. Huntsville was the only town in Perry Sound- Muskoka where the torch was stopped on its 106 day torch run. What an amazing day, to see so many people from our small town come together to support Canadian athletes
On Feb 20,2010 I went to Napanee, Ont and shot curling for the first time..and what a experience I had. When I walked in I thought that I was going to be bored but No the ladies from the TNA Diva curling team kept me and many others entertained with their rubber boobs and rubber butts.
During my first couple of weeks back at Loyalist I went to Kingston to shoot the Royal Military college competition for the first years. It was a cold rainy day, but overall was great for pictures.
Nicole Holness my notable Canadian for staff class at Loyalist College.
During the summer of 2009 my great grandmother was told that she had cancer. This hit my family very hard, but my grandmother recovered amazingly after months of hospital visits and operations. These are some shots I took of my mother and great grandmother during her first winter cancer free.
Karla Struyk is 26 years old and lives with a disability known as Down syndrome. She is involved with many different organizations in the community of Huntsville. Struyk is an inspiration to others with disabilities and is always working a making her dreams and goals happen, as her mother Cathy Foyston would say, “ Turn lemons into lemonade and when you have dreams, figure out how to make them come true.”
During my time at Loyalist college I was given an assignment in my documentary class to photograph a subject or group that represented belonging. I connected with a group of people with various disabilities in Muskoka and with the help from Community Living I was able to find two great subjects. Karla Struyk and John Rowntree.
Excitement, discovery, challenges, friendships and overall one of the greatest times of my life. March 2008 marked a month that I will never forget. I traveled to Ecuador for just under three weeks with a group of students from my high school. After spending two days in Quito we then traveled six hours by bus into the Andes mountains, to a remote village where we started construction on a new school. These are just a few shots from my time there.
