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Always remembered

  This is one of my favourite photographs of my Dad (right), shown here posing with his older brother Les (left) in April 1945. My Dad was away on a short leave from his unit, the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, who at that time were in eastern Holland near Apeldoorn. My Dad had not seen Les since they enlisted together in 1942; my Dad had served in Italy with the First Canadian Infantry Division until their recent transfer to the Low Countries, while my Uncle Les was a quartermaster […]

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Film or digital? And does it matter?

As I’ve been ill since the beginning of June, I’ve been unable to shoot and unable to print in the darkroom. So I spent my spare time re-reading some of my very favorite references on photography: Issue 83 of Lenswork magazine (July-August 2009), a tribute to photographer Bill Jay; On Being a Photographer by Bill Jay and David Hurn; Single Exposures – Random Observations on Photography, Art, and Creativity by Brooks Jensen; Within the Frame by David duChemin; and VisionMongers – Making a Life and a Living in Photography, also

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